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Alba ligustra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur [87]


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Virg.
ALBA LIGVSTRA CADVNT, VACCINIA
NIGRA LEGVNTVR.translationtranslation
Ouid.
---- placuit Cephëia Persei
Andromade, patriæ fusca colore suæ. translationtranslation

Virg.
Et violæ nigræ sunt, & vaccinia nigra. translationtranslation

Brown beries are sweet of taste.
Cupid not alwayes doth, shoot at the fayrest whyte,
But at the louely brown, moste often drawes his bow,
Good gesture and fyne grace, he hath the skill to know,
Delighting for to chuse, the cause of his delight.

Gratia più che colore.
La bianca Amor per la brunette lassa
Talhora; e perche no? se piu souente
La gratia de la bruna è più poßente?
Piu fermo è’ l bruno, el’ color bianco passa.

Bruyne besien smaken wel.
Cupido dickwijls sal meer een bruynett’ beminnen/
Als een heel blanck/ en wit/ ’tzij door een fraeyen sangh/
’Zij lieffelick beual/ of eenen fraeyen gangh.
Elck heeft yet sonderlinghs waer op men set sijn sinnen.

Pour durer la brunette.
Le Cupidon Moreau au blanc ses flesches darde,
La brunette parfois espoint nostre desir,
Et vient souuent nos cœurs par ses graces saisir:
Ains la blancheur perit, & le teint brun se garde.

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Translations

Vergilius, Eclogae 2, 18.
Witte liguster mag vallen, hyacinten, donker, vergaart men. [tr. R.F.M. Brouwer, Baarn 1995, p. 62.]
Vergilius, Eclogae 2, 18.
The white privets fall, the dark hyacinths are culled. [tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, Loeb, p. 11].
Ovidius, Heroides 15, 35-36.
Kijk hoe Andromeda Perseus bekoorde, Afrika's zwarte prinses, ondanks haar donkere huid. [tr. W.A.M. Peters, Baarn 1994, p. 94.]
Ovidius, Heroides 15, 35-36.
Cepheus' Andromeda was fair in Perseus' eyes, though dusky with the hue of her native land. [tr. G. Showerman, Loeb, p. 183].
Vergilius, Eclogae 10, 39.
Donker is menig viooltje en bosbessen, zijn die niet donker? [tr. R.F.M. Brouwers, Baarn 1995, p. 178.]
Vergilius, Eclogae 10, 39.
Violets, too, are black and black are hyacinths. [tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, Loeb, p. 73.]

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Literature

  1. Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 309
  2. Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 40

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