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Maturandum.
All in good time
EMBLEMA XX.
Maturare iubent properè, & cunctarier omnes,
Ne nimium praeceps, neu mora longa nimis.
Hoc tibi declaret connexum echeneide[1] telum:
Haec tarda est, volitant spicula missa manu.
Everyone tells us to deal with things quickly, but they also tell us to hold back - not to be impetuous, nor yet to wait too long. A missile linked with a sucking-fish can demonstrate this for you: the fish is slow, but arrows fly fast when they leave the shooter’s hand.
1. ‘linked with a sucking fish’. The sucking-fish (echeneis or remora) was a creature believed by the ancients to have the power of slowing the course of ships to which it attached itself. See Pliny, Natural History 32.1.2-6. He describes it as about six inches long and like a slug. See also [A91a082].
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Vigilance, & garde.
Le Coq chantant annonce jour levant,
Et au labeur, appelle le servant.
Pource il est mis aux clochiers: Car l’erain
Sonnant, reveille a Dieu le souverain.
Le Lyon est dormant, l’oeil ouvert,
ample:[1]
Et pource il est mis au portal du temple.
Par ces deux animaux mis es Eglises, est signifié
le Pasteur Ecclesiastic devoir veiller sur son parc,
et diligemment le garder.
1. See Isidore, Etymologiae, 12.2.5: when lions are asleep, their eyes remain awake. See also Aelian, De natura animalium, 5.39.
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