SERO PROBATVR AMOR, QVI MORTE PROBATVR.

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Fidus ad extremum vitæ tibi, vita remansi,
Nunc mea cum vita flamma sepulta iacet.
Iam satis, & plusquam satis est, satis vsqué probatum est,
Nam mea mors veri testis Amoris erit.

Triall made to late.

Too late the proof is made to make true meaning seen,
When by noght els but death it onlie must bee known,
Tis too extreme a proof where such effect is shown,
Enough but not toomuch, alas enough had been.

Tarda proua.

De la fede d’Amor tarda è la proua,
Che sol per via di morte si conosce,
l’Estrema proua apporta troppo angosce,
Piu che troppo è l’aßai, che nulla gioua.

Te langh gheproeft.

Te spade comt de proef van s’minnaers liefd en trouwe/
Die niet dan door de doot wert voor oprecht bekent/
Van ’t uyterste beproef seer sorghlick is het end’.
Ghenoegh meer dan te veel, is vry van schand’ en rouwe.

Tardiue preuue.

De la foy de l’Amour trop tradiue est la preuue,
Laquelle seulement se cognoit par la mort,
Dangereuse est la preuue extreme en son effort.
Assez est plus que trop en tout ce que s’espreuue.

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laat wordt liefde beproefd die door de dood wordt beproefd.

Too late love is tried that is tried by death.

Mijn leven, ik bleef je tot het eind toe trouw, nu ligt mijn liefdesvuur begraven samen met mijn leven. Er is genoeg, meer dan genoeg, altijd maar genoeg beproefd, want mijn dood zal het bewijs zijn van mijn ware liefde.

My life, I remained faithful to you till the very end, now my flame is buried together with my life. Now enough, more than enough, always enough is tried, for my death will bear witness of my true love.

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Literature

Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 107
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 49

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Sources and parallels

Serò probatur Amor, qui morte probatur [70] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618)) [Compare]
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, background less detailed) and for some mottoes (Latin, Italian, French) in: Une Dame qui pleure la mort de son Amour en présence de Cupidon (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691)) [Compare]
It is too late to fall in love after the lover has died, in: Noctua ut in tumulis, super utque cadavera bubo. [48] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)) [Compare]

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Une Dame qui pleure la mort de son Amour en présence de Cupidon (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
Noctua ut in tumulis, super utque cadavera bubo. [48] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
Serò probatur Amor, qui morte probatur [70] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))

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A woman weeping at the corpse of her dead lover, shot by an arrow, who is holding a tropaion with a medallion with joined hands on top

low hill country [25H114]
landscape with tower or castle [25I5]
heart symbolism [31A22210]
kneeling figure - AA - female human figure [31AA233]
wiping away tears [31A25344]
violent death by arrow(s) [31E23461]
the corpse [31E3]
shaking hands, 'dextrarum junctio' [33A12]
couple of lovers [33C23]
mourning the dead [42E131]
archer's weapons: arrow [45C15(ARROW)]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
quiver [45C23]
(military) standard-bearer [45D12]
Proof (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52B53(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(SERO PROBATUR AMOR, QUI MORTE PROBATUR)]
specific aspects of Cupid [92D17]
attributes of Cupid [92D18(BOW]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

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Sero probatur amor, qui morte probatur [124]

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