Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)
Table of contents ↑Sine fomite frustra [80]
Translations
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Zonder brandstof tevergeefs. |
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Without tinder in vain. |
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Wie te veel verlangt naar een rustig en zacht meisje verlangt vergeefs en gedraagt zich dwaas net als degene die met een vuursteen
verborgen vuur probeert te verkrijgen zonder brandstof. Wederzijdse liefde is waarlijk brandstof voor liefde. |
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Who has too much desire for a quiet and tender girl in vain desires and he is playing the fool just like the one who tries
to get a concealed fire with a flint, without tinder. Mutual love is love's real tinder. |
Sources and parallels
- Sine fomite frustra [45] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Praz compares with: Paradin, Princeliicke Deviisen, embl. 21
- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 7
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Lighting fire with flint as a metaphor for falling in love in: In lyden blinck ick [10] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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Lighting fire with flint as a metaphor for falling in love in: Coudt zijnde sticht zy brandt [23] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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Same motto, different subscriptio, pictura mirrored, background shows a boat: Sine Fomite frustra. [8] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
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Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, less elements in the background) and the Latin, Dutch and French motto are (nearly)
the same in: Un Amour qui bat le Fusil sur la méche d’autre (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Flamma fumo proxima. [17] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
- Sine Fomite frustra. [8] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
- Un Amour qui bat le Fusil sur la méche d’autre (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
- In lyden blinck ick [10] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Coudt zijnde sticht zy brandt [23] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Sine fomite frustra [45] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))