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Concrescit amor motu [60]


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CONCRESCIT AMOR MOTV.translationtranslation
Plutarch.
Quemadmodùm lac coagulo concrescit: sic
amantes vnum fiunt Amore.translationtranslation

Mouing maketh vniting.
The milk beeing mou ed long his nature seemes to leaue,
And in another kynd is vnto vnion broght,
Right so two louers myndes may not in one bee wroght,
Before the louer first repulses do receaue.

s’Vnisce Amor col moto.
Come s’vnisce il latte ben battuto,
E il denso suo liquor diuien migliore:
Cosi si giunge col suo oggetto Amore,
Dopo vn lungo penar, dopo il rifiuto.

’t Beroeren vereenight.
’t Ghestadigh roeren doet het melck te samen loopen/
En werden vast in een: des Liefd’s beweghingh’ doet
Twee lieuen werden een van hert/ en van ghemoedt.
Dat eenmael Liefde voeght seer qualick ist t’ontknoopen.

Esmouuoir fait vnir.
Oncq ne se peut beurer du laict la cresme douce,
Que par le poussement d’vn bras continuel:
Iamais ne se peut ioindre vn amour mutuel,
Deuant que de souffrir maint affront de repousse.

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Translations

Liefde stremt door beweging.
Love is curdled when moved. [Moving makes love united].
[Plutarchus] Zoals melk door stremming een stevig geheel wordt, [door roeren stremt] zo worden minnaars door de Liefde één..
[Plutarchus] Like milk is brought into union by coagulation, lovers are united by love.

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Literature

  1. Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, pp. 112-113
  2. Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 32

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Cupids churning, and pouring milk, someone milking a cow

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