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SILENTIUM.

Silence

Emblema. 11.

Man in robes with a cap sitting at a desk with an open book, holding a finger to his lips
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Cum tacet, haud quicquam differt sapientibus amens.
Stultitiae est index linguaque, voxque suae.
Ergo premat labias, digitoque silentia signet:
Et sese Pharium vertat in Harpocratem[1].

When he is silent, the fool differs no whit from the wise. It is tongue and voice that betray his stupidity. Let him therefore put his finger to his lips and so mark silence, and turn himself into Egyptian Harpocrates.

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1.  Harpocrates, also known as Horus, was the son of the Egyptian divinity Isis. He avenged the murder of his father Osiris by Set/Typhon. He is often represented as an infant with his finger held to his mouth as a sign of silence and economy of words. See Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 68.

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Alliances.

Apostrophe.

Sur l’Alliance des Italiens.

Apostrophe.

Lute lying on a couch with books beside it.
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Ce Lucz formé comme nef piscantine
Propre pour soy prend la Muse Latine
Pren (Duc) ce don, qui te plaise en ce temps
Que commencer alliance pretendz.
Difficile est tant de chordes estendre
Fors qu’au prudent, Si l’une ne veult tendre,
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [B8r p31] Ou rompue est (ce qu’est facilement)
Grace du son se perd totallement.
Ainsi veult Paix l’Italie conjoindre,
Si l’Amour est: rien n’est que doibves craindre.
Si l’ung default (ce que l’on voit souvent)
Celle harmonie est resolue en vent.

Comparaison d’ung Luc, accor-
dé, ou discors: envoyé au Duc
Maximilian soubz figure des al
liances, & Partialitéz d’Italie, mon
strant union estre invincible.

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