21. Bulla favor.

21. Bulla favor.
Gelijck de lichte bel seer haestich wordt geboren,
En dickwils weder breeckt soo haest als zy op staet:
Soo gaet het met de jonst van die ghy hebt verkoren.
Zy gaet gelijck zy quam, en kompt gelijck zy gaet.
Die wijs is wacht hem wel van daer yet op te bouwen.
Het is maer eenen windt. Cupido speelt zijn spel.
Als hy hem wederkeert, soo sal zy weer verflouwen,
VVant dat ghy jonste noemt, dat is een rechte bel.

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Cupid showing that love is transitory: Homo bulla [49] (in: anonymous, Nieuwen ieucht spieghel (1617)) [Compare]

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Homo bulla [49] (in: anonymous, Nieuwen ieucht spieghel (1617))

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Cupid blowing bubbles

trees [25G3]
lake [25H214]
looking upwards [31B6211]
bubble-blowing (children's games and plays) [43C7851]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
sailing-ship, sailing-boat [46C24]
Inconstancy; 'Incostanza', 'Instabilité', 'Instabilité overo Incostanza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53AA21(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
Trustworthiness, Reliability (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57A6141(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(BULLA FAVOR)]
(story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros) [92D1]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

Bulla favor. [21]

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