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Que las cosas muy firmes no se pueden
arrancar.
Ottava rhima.
Aun qu’el Oceano se embravezca tanto
Que d’el furor rebiente conçevido
Haziendo con braveza a’l mundo espanto,
Y de ti sea Turco el Rhin[1] sorbido
No pasaras de raya el pie,
por quanto
Tiempo traxere campo el invençido
Carlos,[2] que como enzina no se muda [M]
Aunque la foja el viento la sacuda.
[Marginalia - link to text]Carlos Quinto. Emperador
1. The Spanish implies that the Turks were threatening the Rhine. The Turks invaded along the Danube and reached Hungary, winning the battle of Mohacs in 1526. When Alciato was writing, they continued to threaten Vienna and Central Europe.
2. Emperor Charles V led the campaign to recover the lost territory.
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Firmissima convelli non posse.
The firmest things cannot be uprooted
LVI.
Oceanus quamvis fluctus pater excitet omnes,[1]
Danubiumque omnem barbare Turca bibas:[2]
Non tamen irrumpes perfracto limite, Caesar
Dum Charlus populis bellica signa dabit.[3]
Sic sacrae quercus[4] firmis radicibus astant,
Sicca licet venti concutiant folia.
Though Father Ocean rouses all his waves, though, barbarous Turk, you drink the Danube dry, yet you shall not break through the boundary and burst in, while Emperor Charles shall give to his peoples the signal for war. Even so, holy oaks stand firm with tenacious roots, though the winds rattle the dry leaves.
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Starcke bevestigung.
LVI.
Ob gleich der grewlich Turck das meer
Mit schiffen bedeck uberal,
Und sauff die Danow mit seimm heer,
Mag er unß doch thuen kainn eynfal,
Die weyl den Cristenlichen stal
Der edlest Kayser Carl huett,
Kayn Aych falt nit von windes hal,
Wie fast er in den bleternn wuet.
1. This poem is based on Anthologia graeca 9.291, which refers to a threat to ancient Rome from invading German tribes.
2. The Turks invaded along the Danube and reached Hungary, winning the battle of Mohacs in 1526. When Alciato was writing, they continued to threaten Vienna and Central Europe.
3. Caesar...Charlus, i.e. Emperor Charles V, led the charge to recover the lost territory.
4. ‘holy oaks’. Oaks were holy because sacred to Zeus, especially at his sanctuary at Dodona in Greece ([A50a199]). The image of the dry leaves is already present in the Greek poem, but see also Vergil, Aeneid 4.441-4.
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