
Fidei symbolum.
The symbol of good faith
XCV.
Stet depictus Honor tyrio velatus amictu,
Eiusque iungat nuda dextram Veritas.
Sitque Amor in medio castus,[1] cui tempora circum
Rosa it, Diones pulchrior Cupidine.[2]
Constituunt haec signa fidem, reverentia Honoris
Quam fovet, alit Amor, parturitque Veritas.
Let Honour stand depicted, clothed in a garment of Tyrian purple, and let naked Truth hold his right hand. Between them, let chaste Love be represented, his brow garlanded with roses, but fairer than Cupid, Dione’s boy. These images constitute good faith, which the reverence due to Honour fosters, Love feeds, Truth brings to birth.

La divise de foy.
XCV.
Honneur descarlate vestu,
Touchant en main a Verité,
Entre eulx deux amour de vertu,
Qui a l’art de Venus quicté.
L’histoire est de fidelité,
Estant par vray dire produicte,
D’amour nourrie en purité,
Et soubz crainte d’honneur conduicte.
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EMBLEMA CXC [=189] .
Obnoxia infirmitas.
Weakness is vulnerable
Pisciculos Orata [=Aurata]
rapit medio aequore sardas,
Ni fugiant pavidae summa marisque petant?
Link to an image of this page [R4v f119v]Ast ibi sunt mergis fulicisque voracibus esca
Eheu intuta manens undique debilitas.
The little sardines the golden wrasse swallows in the depths of the ocean, unless in fear they flee and make for the surface of the sea. But there they provide a meal for greedy divers and other sea-birds. Alas for weakness, remaining everywhere at risk.
Das CXC [=189] .
Wolgeplagte Armut.
Die Goldbraßmen im mitten Meer
Die Fischlein Sardein engstet sehr
Wann sie nicht fliehen also gschwind
Zu öberst sie gefressen sind
Aber da werdens graubt zur Speiß
Von Breßlin und Merchen on greiß
Ach Gott wie ist die arm schwachheit
An allen orten nider gleidt.
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