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Potentia Amoris.

The power of Love

LXXVI.

Cupid holding a bunch of flowers in one hand and a fish in the other.
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Nudus Amor viden’ ut ridet placidumque tuetur?
Nec faculas, nec quae cornua flectat habet.[1]
Altera sed manuum flores gerit, altera piscem,
Scilicet ut terrae iura det atque mari.

Do you see how Love, all naked, smiles, do you see his gentle glance? He has no torches, nor a bow to bend, but in one of his hands he holds flowers, in the other a fish, to impose his rule, of course, on land and sea.

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La puissance d’Amour.

LXXVI.

Cupido ne tient plus de flesches,
D’arc, ny feu, dont maintz a pugny:
Ains ou lieu de ses arc, traictz, mesches,
D’une main s’est de fleurs garny:
En l‘autre est de poissons muny,
Non de instrumens, faisans aymer,
Car il publie pour vray, sans ny,
Qu’il est maistre en terre, & en mer.

Notes:

1.  These were traditional attributes of Cupid (Love). See [A42a081] and [A42a097].

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Obnoxia infirmitas.

Weakness is vulnerable

Small fish in the sea being chased by a larger fish and also by birds.
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Pisciculos orata [=aurata] rapit medio aequore sardas,
Ni fugiant pavidae, summa marisque petant.
Ast ibi sunt mergis fulicisque voracibus esca.
Eheu intuta mancns [=manens] undique debilitas.

The little sardines the golden wrasse swallows in the depths of the ocean, unless in fear they flee and make for the surface of the sea. But there they provide a meal for greedy divers and other sea-birds. Alas for weakness, remaining everywhere at risk.

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