8. Amoris semen mirabile.

8. Amoris semen mirabile.
Siet Venus saeyer aen. hy gaet zijn saet uytspreyden
De weerelt om en om, gelijck een landtman doet.
Het saet komt weder voort, en sonder lang te beyden
Geeft vrucht op zijnen tijdt, die d'aerde weder voet.
De vruchten die het brengt, die sijn begaeft met reden,
Met wijsheyt en verstant, en wonderlick van aert.
Die vruchten houden op de landen en de steden.
VVijst my doch eenen boer die sulcke vruchten gaert.

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Parallel for the entire emblem (but no direct copy): Amoris semen mirabile. [1] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]
Same motto, pictura slightly modified ('Dutch' landscape in the background, burning torch on the ground): Amoris semen mirabile. [1] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]

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Amoris semen mirabile. [1] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))

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Cupid sowing and children's heads emerging from the earth

seed [25G2111]
trees [25G3]
farm or solitary house in landscape [25I3]
head (human) (+ upward) [31A221(+63)]
movements of the human body (+ upward) [31A27(+63)]
child [31D112]
fence, wall, paling [41A54]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
quiver [45C23]
sowing (+ variant) [47I131(+0)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AMORIS SEMEN MIRABILE)]
(story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros) [92D1]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

Amoris semen mirabile. [8]

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