Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)
Table of contents ↑Sunt lacrymæ testes [95]![](/static/images/em.gif)
![A cupid wiping his eyes, kneeling in front of a stove with a retort from which water is dripping into a jar v1608095pict](/static/images//va1608/editie1608LEI/pictura/01010189.jpg)
Translations
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De tranen zijn getuigen. |
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The tears bear witness. |
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[Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria 3.3] Waarom aarzel je nog? Laten mijn tranen getuigen zijn van mijn liefdesvuur, zoals er altijd
condens vrijkomt bij vuur dat is opgesloten. |
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[Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria 3.3] What do you hesitate? Let my tears reveal that I am burning, just as water always trickles
from a banked fire. |
Sources and parallels
- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria
, embl. 44
- Extended metaphor of teares,
fournace, limbeke,
eyes subject of a full sonnet:
De Harduyn, Roose-mond [web]
, sonn. 42, spiritually transposed in De Harduyn, Goddelicke Lof-Sanghen
, p. 98.
- Latin epigram, concept, pictura: Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3]
(in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8)
) [Compare
]
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Parallel (partial) for the pictura and the principal idea of the subcriptio: Mes pleurs mōn feu decelēt. [27]
(in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)
) [Compare
]
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In motto lacrymae, pictura shows architectural setting: Sunt Lachrymæ Testes. [44]
(in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)
) [Compare
]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Sunt Lachrymæ Testes. [44]
(in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)
)
- Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3]
(in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8)
)
- Mes pleurs mon feu decelent. [27]
(in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613)
)
- Mes pleurs mōn feu decelēt. [27]
(in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)
)