Ni mesme la mort [17]
Het een is gantsch vergaen/ het ander staet noch schoone/
End’ spreyt zijn rancken uyt zeer rijckelijck ten toone/
Altijdt zijnd’ even groen/ zoo gaet het oock met dy/
OVenus lieflijck kindt1
/ die altijt woont in my.
De doot neemt wech den mensch’/ maer laet de liefde leven/
Zy wordt noch door den doodt noch door den tijdt verdreven.
Zy blijft alst al2 vergaet/ zy bloeyt oock in den noodt/
De doodt verwint het al/ maarVenus 3 oock de doodt.
End’ spreyt zijn rancken uyt zeer rijckelijck ten toone/
Altijdt zijnd’ even groen/ zoo gaet het oock met dy/
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De doot neemt wech den mensch’/ maer laet de liefde leven/
Zy wordt noch door den doodt noch door den tijdt verdreven.
Zy blijft alst al2 vergaet/ zy bloeyt oock in den noodt/
De doodt verwint het al/ maar
Translations
Zelfs de dood niet. |
Not even death. |
De dood neemt de wijnrank niet weg van de plataan, en zo neemt de laatste dag, die al het andere wegneemt, onze liefde niet weg. |
Death does not take away the vine from the plane-tree, and thus the last day, that takes away everything else, will not take away our love. |
Literature
- Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 260
- Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, pp. 96-97
Sources and parallels
- Same emblem in 1601 edition: Ni mesme la mort [17] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601)) [Compare]
- Source for the pictura (the emblem carries another message): Alciato, Book of Emblems, embl. 160
- Parallel, and probably adaptation, for the entire emblem: Transilit et fati litora magnus amor [123] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
- Parallel in the 1616 edition: motto and subscriptio the same, pictura is mirrored and more detailed in the background: Ni mesme la mort. [43] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)) [Compare]
- Parallel, and possibly adaptation, for the French motto (the emblem carries another message): Amor, qui desinere potest, numquam verus fuit [93] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Ni mesme la mort [17] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
- Ni mesme la mort. [43] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
- Ni mesme la mort. [43] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
- Amor, qui desinere potest, numquam verus fuit [93] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
- Amor, qui desinere potest, numquam verus fuit [93] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
- Transilit et fati litora magnus amor [123] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
A vine is coiled around the remains of a dead elm, with Cupid watching- trees: elm (+ dead, withered plant) [25G3(ELM)(+371)]
- death of human being [31E]
- archer's weapons: arrow [45C15(ARROW)]
- archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
- quiver [45C23]
- vine (+ bearing fruit) [47I422(+8934)]
- vine (+ other characteristics of plant growth) [47I422(+8939)(CLIMBING)]
- Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosité dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A7(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
- 'Forza d'amore, Forza d'amore si nell'acqua come in terra' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2515(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(NI MESME LA MORT)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(ARROW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]