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Translations

Mijn tranen verraden mijn vuur.

My tears bear witness of my fire.

Mijn vuur brandt sterker en sterker, wat zal het einde zijn? Het water komt voort uit vuur en kan mij niet genezen. Mijn vuur wordt opgestookt. Mijn vuur brandt en blaakt zo lang het een fontein voor mij maakt. Door mijn tranen drijf ik weg. Als zij niet naar mij wil luisteren, dan zal ik uiteindelijk in tranenvocht verdrinken. O wonderlijke brand, door het branden overkomt mij dit. Waar ik ook ben moet ik zwemmen, de brand die maakt mij nat.

Waarom aarzel je nog? Laten mijn tranen getuigen zijn van mijn liefdesvuur, zoals er altijd condens vrijkomt bij vuur dat is opgesloten.

What do you hesitate? Let my tears reveal that I am burning, just as water always trickles from a banked fire.

Literature

1. Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1407
2. Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, pp. 89-90
3. Luijten, Gezien of gelezen?, pp. 48-49

Sources and parallels

• Same emblem in 1601 edition: Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601)) [Compare]
• Source for the motto, pictura and entire emblem: Scève, Délie, embl. 23
• Probable source for the pictura and perhaps the entire emblem: La Perriëre, Theatre, embl. 79
• A parallel (and probably adaptation) for the latin subscriptio, the pictura and the entire emblem: Sunt lacrymæ testes [95] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
• A parallel for the pictura: Covarrubias, Emblemas Morales, bk/embl. III/63
• A parallel (and probably adaptation) for the pictura (background): Fit spolians spolium. [12] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627)) [Compare]
• A parallel in the 1616 edition: motto and subscriptio the same; pictura is mirrored and some details disappeared (the lovers in the gallery): Mes pleurs mōn feu decelēt. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)) [Compare]
• Partial parallel for the pictura: some elements in the background are the same (gallery, castle): Animæ felicitas [96] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724)) [Compare]
• Lovers in a garden house: Den Hemel van des minnars sin is sijn in t'groen by sijn goddin [1] (in: anonymous, Cupido’s lusthof (1613)) [Compare]
• A partial parallel for the pictura: some elements in the background are the same (castle and gallery (without lovers now), both mirrored). Fit spolians spolium. [11] (in: Jacob Cats, Proteus (1618)) [Compare]
• A parallel (and probably adaptation) for the pictura (background): Amoris felicitas [51] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615)) [Compare]
• Porteman 1975, p. 212. Pictura substantially altered in:Antidotum Amoris [42] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629)) [Compare]
• Porteman 1975, p. 212. Fleeing is useless.Assiduitas Amoris [27] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629)) [Compare]
• Same pictura, altered, different motto and Latin subscriptio:Sunt Lachrymæ Testes. [44] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]

References, across this site, to this page:

• Fit spolians spolium. [11] (in: Jacob Cats, Proteus (1618))
• Fit spolians spolium. [12] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
• Den Hemel van des minnars sin is sijn in t'groen by sijn goddin [1] (in: anonymous, Cupido’s lusthof (1613))
• Sunt Lachrymæ Testes. [44] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
• Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
• Mes pleurs mon feu decelent. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
• Mes pleurs mōn feu decelēt. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
• Animæ felicitas [96] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724))
• Sunt lacrymæ testes [95] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
• Amoris felicitas [51] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))

Iconclass

• fire (one of the four elements) [21C]
• water (one of the four elements) [21D]
• (lovers) kissing each other [33C232]
• castle [41A12]
• garden buildings [41A62]
• poking (stirring up a fire) [41B133]
• open hearth, fire-place [41B21]
• quiver [45C23]
• alchemy (+ tools, instruments; laboratory equipment ~ scientific research) [49E39(+52)(STILL)]
• Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56BB1(+4)]
• (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
• 'Tormento d'amore' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2522(+4)]
• proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(MES PLEURS MON FEU DECELENT)]
• other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
• attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

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