Mon mal me suit. [47]
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Mon mal me suit.
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Mon mal me suit.
Het gene dat ick vlie dat moet ick selve draegen,
Ick voere waer ick gae het geen dat my doet klaegen.
Ick wend' my hier end' daer, ick ben noch even blendt.
Ick gae, ick keer, ick kom, 'tbeginsel is het endt.
'Tsy dat ick blijde ben, 'tsy dat ick ben verbolgen,
Het gene dat ick vlie, dat moet ick selve volgen.
Daer ick gae is mijn liefd', ick moeter doch wel aen,
Ick most my selven eerst, woud' ick mijn brandt ontgaen.
Het gene dat ick vlie dat moet ick selve draegen,
Ick voere waer ick gae het geen dat my doet klaegen.
Ick wend' my hier end' daer, ick ben noch even blendt.
Ick gae, ick keer, ick kom, 'tbeginsel is het endt.
'Tsy dat ick blijde ben, 'tsy dat ick ben verbolgen,
Het gene dat ick vlie, dat moet ick selve volgen.
Daer ick gae is mijn liefd', ick moeter doch wel aen,
Ick most my selven eerst, woud' ick mijn brandt ontgaen.
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- Parallel in the 1601 edition: motto, pictura and subscriptio are the same: Mon mal me suit [22] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601)) [Compare]
- Parallel in the 1608 edition: motto, pictura and subscriptio are the same: Mon mal me suit [22] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Mon mal me suit [22] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
- Mon mal me suit [22] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
Iconclass
Cupid seated on a horse pulling millstones- taming, domestication of animals; tamed or domesticated animal [34A11]
- archer's weapons: arrow [45C15(ARROW)]
- archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
- quiver [45C23]
- riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman (+ sitting on animal with both legs on one side, riding side-saddle) [46C131(+82)]
- horse (+ animal(s) pulling, drawing something) [46C13141(+75247)]
- bit [46C131612]
- reins [46C131613]
- blinkers [46C131616]
- harness [46C1411]
- treadmill [47D22]
- parts of machines: mill-stone [47D7(MILL-STONE)]
- Curtailment (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51EE12(+4)]
- 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)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(MON MAL ME SUIT)]
- 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)]