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EMBLEMA CXIII.

Dolos [=Dolus] in suos.

Treachery against one’s own kind.

Several birds diving into a net held by a man blowing a whistle.
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Altilis allectator anas, & caerula pennis
Adsueta ad dominos ire redire suos.
Congeneres cernens volitare per aëra turmas,
Garrit: in illarum se recipitque gregem,
Praetensa incautas donec sub retia ducat.
Obstrepitant captae, conscia at ipsa silet,
Perfida cognato se sanguine polluit ales
Officiosa aliis, exitiosa suis.[1]

The well-fed decoy duck with its green-blue wings is trained to go out and return to its masters. When it sees squadrons of its relations flying through the air, it quacks and joins itself to the flock, until it can draw them, off their guard, into the outspread nets. When caught they raise a protesting clamour, but she, knowing what she has done, keeps silence. The treacherous bird defiles itself with related blood, servile to others, deadly to its own kind.

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Das CXIII.

Betrug gegen den seinen.

Der Antrech mit schön Federn ziert
Der die wilden Endten verfürt
Ist abgerichtet und gewent
Das er von und zu seim Herrn lendt
Wann er sicht fliegen in der höh
Ein hauffen seins gschlechts und art jöh
So lockt ers herzu mit seim gschrey
Und fügt sich undern hauffen frey
Biß daß er sie verführt onbdacht
Und unwissend hat ins Garn bracht
Die also gfangen fladern vil
Er aber weiß, tückt sich schweigt still
Der schalck Vogel sich bflecken thut
Mit seins Gschlechts verwandten Blut
Andern ist er hurtig und nutz
Den seinen aber schad und stutz.

Notes:

1.  Cf. Aesop, Fables, 282, where the decoy birds are pigeons.

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Aliud.

Another on the bat.

EMBLEMA LXII.

Vespere quae tantùm volitat, quae lumine lusca est,
Quae cùm alas gestet, caetera muris habet;
Ad res diversas trahitur: mala nomina primùm
Signat, quae latitant, iudiciumque timent.
Inde & Philosophos, qui dum caelestia quaerunt,
Caligant oculis, falsaque sola vident.
Tandem & versutos, cùm clam sectentur utrumque,
Acquirunt neutra qui sibi parte fidem.

The creature that flies only in the evening, that has poor sight, that is endowed with wings, but has other features belonging to a mouse, is used to represent various things. First it indicates persons of bad standing who lie low and fear being called to account. Next philosophers, who, while they search the heavens, develop blurred vision and only see what is false. Lastly, wily men, who secretly court both parties, but do not win trust on either side.

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