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Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [D4v p56]

Fidei symbolum.

The symbol of good faith.

EMBLEMA IX.

Three figures, one wearing a laurel wreath. The words FIDII SIMULACRUM and VERITAS, AMOR and HONOR.
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Stet depictus HONOS, Tyrio velatus amictu,
Eiusque iungat nuda dextram VERITAS:
Sitque AMOR in medio castus,[1] cui tempora circum
Rosa it, Diones pulchrior Cupidine.[2]
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [D5r p57]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.

Notes:

1.  Amor...castus, ‘chaste love’ (Anteros), for which see [A21a110] and [A21a111].

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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