INGENS COPIA, INGENS INOPIA.

Plutarch.
Vt puella in pratis alium post alium florem carpens
priores negligit: sic qui plures amare instituit, nullam
retinet.

Choise breeds confusion.

Lyke to the wench that comes where fragrant flowers growes,
And still that flower plucks whereof first choise shee makes,
But it assoone forgets as shee another takes,
So doth the wauering mynd, for new choyce elder lose.

Abondanza confunde.

Come chi coglie i fior di prato in prato
Presto il primier’ oblia, ch’ hauea raccolto,
Cosi fà quei, ch’ à nouo Amor’ è volto.
Quell’ ama in van, che ogn’ hor cangia l’amato.

Veel kiesen doet verliesen.

Ghelijck een meysken iongh gaet plucken d’een na d’andren
Veel bloemkens/ en vergheet haest d’eerst’ in het ghemeen:
Soo doet oock die aenvanght de vrientschap van elck een.
Dicwijls de niewe Liefd’ doet d’oude gantsch verandren.

Foison m’esgaye.

Comme la fille au pré de son beau doit moissonne
La fleur plus agreable, & la met en son sein;
Mais l’oublie aussi tost qu’elle a vne autre en main:
Ainsi vn coeur muable à tout venant se donne.

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Translations

Grote rijkom brengt grote armoede.

Affluence brings poverty.

Plutarchus, De amicorum multitudine 93D.

Zoals een meisje dat in de velden bloem na bloem plukt en de vorige vergeet, zo zal iemand die besloten heeft meer meisjes lief te hebben, er geen behouden.

Plutarchus, De amicorum multitudine 93D.

Like a girl picking up flower after flower on a meadow neglects the former, thus someone who has decided to love more girls, will keep none.

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Literature

Hooft, Emblemata amatoria, pp. 157-158
Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 107
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 45

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Sources and parallels

Ingens copia, ingens inopia [55] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618)) [Compare]
Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 18
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and the Latin motto in: Un Amour & une Femme au milieu d’un Champ de Fleurs (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691)) [Compare]
Same pictura, different motto and Latin subscriptio:Abundantia contemptum parit. [19] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]
Buschoff 2004, p. 118. Choosing between two flowers:VVaerom ghy meer als ick? [9] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611)) [Compare]

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Abundantia contemptum parit. [19] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
Un Amour & une Femme au milieu d’un Champ de Fleurs (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
VVaerom ghy meer als ick? [9] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
Ingens copia, ingens inopia [55] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))

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Iconclass

A cupid and a woman gathering flowers

groups of trees [25G11]
flowers [25G41]
(high) hill [25H113]
kneeling figure - AA - female human figure [31AA233]
index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552]
adolescent, young woman, maiden [31D13]
picking flowers [43B144]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
quiver [45C23]
Abundance; 'Abondanza', 'Abondanza maritima' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51H42(+4)]
Choice; 'Elettione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53A11(+4)]
Pleasure, Enjoyment, Joy; 'Allegrezza', 'Allegrezza da le medaglie', 'Allegrezza, letitia e giubilo', 'Diletto', 'Piacere', 'Piacere honesto' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56B1(+4):56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(INGENS COPIA, INGENS INOPIA)]
other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

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Ingens copia, ingens inopia [107]

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