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Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [O7r p221]

Malus medica.

The citron

Aurea sunt Veneris poma haec: iucundus amaror
Indicat, est Graecis sic γλυκυπίκρος amor.[1]

These golden fruits belong to Venus: the sweet bitterness tells us that. Even so is love glukupikros for the Greeks.

Notes:

1.  γλυκύπικρος, ‘bitter-sweet’, a concept often applied to Love in Hellenistic epigrams. See Emblem 111 ([A51a111]).


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Le Buyx.[1]

Buyx tousjours verd, crespe aufaist de ses fustes,
Est bois, duquel on faict sonnantes flustes.[2]
Propre aulx amours: mais de palle couleur:
Palles amans sont, par doulce douleur.[3]

Le Buyx garde sa vive verdure, & ha bois de jaune pal
leur, duquel on faict flustes harmonieuses, (mesme-
ment chez Rafi Lyonnois, excellent ouvrier) pour son
ner amoureuses chansons, & aubades. Ainsi les amou
reux sont en leur vive chaleur, quelque froit qu’il face
hont palle jaunisse de fievre transie, & en parolle,
sont doulx & plaisans.

Notes:

1.  The woodcut here is a fairly close, laterally inverted, copy of that used in the 1549 French edition.

2.  For pipes of boxwood, see e.g. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.30.

3.  The lover should affect pallor and emaciation, as these will soften the lady’s heart; see Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 1.729ff.


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