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LA FEMME OMBRE DE L’HOMME.

Two figures running in opposite directions with their arms up. Large sun with face beating down.
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Au clair Soleil noire Ombre le corps fuyt
Quand il la suyct. Quand il fuyt elle suyct.
Telle nature, es amoreuses flammes
Ont ces tant vains simulachres des femmes.
Car leurs amans fuyent: qui les poursuyvent.
Et ceux lesquelz les fuyent: elles suyvent.
Car bien souvent, en evidence claire,
L’homme faict l’un, elle faict le contraire,
L’homme ne veult: & l’ors elle demande.
Et contraire est à cela qu’il commande.

Man with bow and arrows running towards a morphed woman-tree.
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Ainsi Daphné Fuit Phebus la fuyvant [=suivant] .[1]

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Man running away, closely pursued by a woman who has nearly caught him, in a rocky landscape.
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Ainsi Echo suyct Narcis la fuyant.
Parquoy l’on dict, & à bon droict on nomme
La femme ainsi estre l’ombre de l’homme.

Notes:

1.  48b uses the same image as 37b ([FANb037])

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