AMANS SECVNDVM TEMPVS.

Plutarch.
Speculum, vt leuis amans, quidquid obijcitur recipit.

[No source given]
Perdit vt obiecto speculum pereunte figuras,
Atque alias alio mox veniente capit:
Sic etiam inconstans mutatis, credite, terris,
Quantum oculis, animo tam procul ibit Amor.

Out of sight out of mynde.

The glasse doth shew the face whyle thereon one doth look,
But gon, it doth another in lyke manner shew,
Once beeing turn’d away forgotten is the view,
So absence hath bin cause the louer loue forsook.

Lunge da gl’occhi, lunge dal core.

Ne lo specchio l’imagine apparisce,
Ma se s’aretra, in vn momento sgombra:
Cosi l’Amante mobile com’ ombra
Si cangia, col partir l’Amor suanisce.

Wt d’ooghen, uyt ’t herte.

Een spieghel ons vertoont/ tot dat wy ons verliesen/
Soo daer een ander comt/ sal sulcks hem oock geschien:
Soo langh is menigh lief/ als hem liefs ooghen sien.
d’Absency menigh doet een ander lief verkiesen.

Loing des yeux, loing du coeur.

Au miroir apparoist tour à tour toute troigne,
Mais en se reculant soudain s’esuanouit:
Aussi vn coeur muable au change s’esiouit,
Et son amant oublie, aissi tost qu’il s’esloigne.

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Tijdelijk beminnend. [Uit het oog, uit het hart].

Loving temporarily. [Out of sight, out of mind.]

[Plutarchus] Zoals een naïeve minnaar, neemt een spiegel alles wat wordt voorgehouden in zich op..

[Plutarchus] Like a naive lover, a mirror accepts everything that is held up.

Zoals een spiegel zijn vormen verliest wanneer wat wordt voorgehouden verdwijnt en weldra andere vormen aanneemt als iets anders opdoemt, zo zal, geloof me, ook de veranderlijke Amor wanneer hij van land verandert, even ver uit het hart als uit het oog gaan.

Like a mirror looses its forms when what is held up perishes, and soon takes other forms when something else comes, in the same way also fickle Amor, believe me, will go just as far out mind as he goes out sight when he changes country.

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Literature

Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 33

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Sources and parallels

Mirror as metaphor for 'Out of sight out of mynde', now in contrast to the lover's constancy: De Harduyn, Roose-mond [web], sonn. 11, spiritually transposed in De Harduyn, Goddelicke Lof-Sanghen, p. 97.
Mirror as metaphor for 'Out of sight out of mynde' in: Deur valsch [20] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611)) [Compare]
Parallel for the motto (mirrored), the quotation of Plutarch and some mottoes (Dutch, French, Italian, though not exact) in: Un Amour qui se regarde dans un Miroir (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691)) [Compare]

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Un Amour qui se regarde dans un Miroir (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
Deur valsch [20] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
Deur valsch [20] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))

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Cupid looking at himself in a mirror

looking over the shoulder [31A247]
looking in the mirror; contemplation of own beauty [31A5111]
interior of the house [41A2]
view through a window from the inside [41A3372]
stool [41A7211]
quiver [45C23]
Nothingness, Absence (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51AA4(+4)]
Oblivion; 'Oblivione' (Ripa) [52AA31]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AMANS SECUNDUM TEMPUS)]
other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

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