Perch’ io stesso mi strinsi [21]

21.
Perch’ io1 stesso mi strinsi.



Als ick hebb’ vry gheweest2/
ick hadde groot verlanghen
Om vast te moghen zijn/ ick moeste zijn ghevanghen:
Ick sach het minnen aen/ het was een lieflick spel/
Waer dat ick henen sach/ het gingh al even wel:3
Ick sach de vryers aen/ ick sach haer soentjens gheven/
En soete praet uytslaen: ick docht/ dat waer mijn leven/
My docht het gingh soo wel/ maer als ick ben int perck4
Nu word’ ick eerst ghewaer hoe dat het gaet te werck.
Om vast te moghen zijn/ ick moeste zijn ghevanghen:
Ick sach het minnen aen/ het was een lieflick spel/
Waer dat ick henen sach/ het gingh al even wel:3
Ick sach de vryers aen/ ick sach haer soentjens gheven/
En soete praet uytslaen: ick docht/ dat waer mijn leven/
My docht het gingh soo wel/ maer als ick ben int perck4
Nu word’ ick eerst ghewaer hoe dat het gaet te werck.

Translations
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Omdat ik mezelf heb gekluisterd. |
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Because I have fettered myself. |
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De gulzige vogel veroorzaakt zelf zijn slavernij, hier komt boontje om zijn loontje. |
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The greedy bird hasonly himself to blame his slavery: he that mischief hatches, mischief catches. |
Literature
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Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata
, col. 756
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Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery
, p. 97
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Sprache der Bilder
, pp. 116-119
Sources and parallels
- Same emblem in 1601 edition: Perch’ io stesso mi strinsi [21] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
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- Source for the motto: Petrarca, Canzoniere
, poem. 266, 11
- Parallel, probably adaptation, for the pictura and entire emblem: Bredero a.o., Thronus Cupidinis (facsimile)
, embl. 2
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Parallel in the 1616 edition: motto, pictura and subscriptio are the same: Perch'io stesso mi strinsi. [46] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
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Parallel (and probably adaptation) for the pictura and entire emblem: VVillighe vanckenis [27] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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Parallel for the pictura: Amissa libertate laetior. [14] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Amissa libertate laetior. [14] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
- VVillighe vanckenis [27] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Perch’ io stesso mi strinsi [21] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
- Perch'io stesso mi strinsi. [46] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
- Perch'io stesso mi strinsi. [46] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
Iconclass
Cupid watches a bird flying to a cage hanging from a tree- birds (+ animal(s) being hit, shot, caught)
[25F3(+621)]
- trees
[25G3]
- sitting on the ground
[31A2351]
- birds in a large cage, aviary
[34B132]
- archer's weapons: bow
[45C15(BOW)]
- quiver
[45C23]
- Curtailment (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[51EE12(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(PERCH'IO STESSO MI STRINSI)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]