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Fidei symbolum.

The symbol of good faith

XCV.

Figure of Cupid standing between figures of Honour and Truth
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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.

Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [O2r p211 as 221]

Ein warzeychen der Trewe.

XCV.

Die Ehr stet hye beklaydt in rot,
Die ploß Warheyt gibt ir die hannd,
Zwischen in der keuschen Lieb got,
Der falschen Venus unbekant:
Das ist ein rechtes bild und pfannd
Gewiser Trew, die Erbarkeyt
Erzeuht, und Lieb in vestem stand
Erhelt, ein tochter der warheyt.

Notes:

1.  Amor...castus, ‘chaste love’ (Anteros), for which see [A42b071] and [A42b081].

2.  ‘Dione’s boy’. Strictly Dione was the mother of Venus, but was often identified in poetry with Venus herself, the mother of Cupid.

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