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Vengence Juste.
Exclamation.
Le noir corbeau pour manger avoit pris
Ung Scorpion, de sa gueulle le pris.
Luy se vengeant, par venin espandu,
Son ravisseur soudain mort ha rendu.
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O cas pour rire: A aultruy qui mort dresse
Luy mesme il meurt, & chet soubz sa finesse.[1]
Quand ung mauvais se prent
à ung aultre
plus mauvais, il se destruict
soy mesme, com
me un bateur, à ung meurtrier, ung larron,
à ung brigand, ung
joueur, à ung pipeur,
ung faulsaire
à ung empoisonneur, ung
usurier, à ung bancquerotier, ung fin, à
ung plus fin, ung trompeur,
à ung trompeur &
demy. Le corbeau est male beste, ung Scor
pion pire, qui tue de sa queuë veneneuse.
1. This is a fairly free translation of Anthologia graeca 9.339. See Erasmus, Adagia 58, Cornix scorpium, where the Greek epigram is again translated.
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- song-birds: raven (+ animal with prey) [25F32(RAVEN)(+452)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: raven (+ animal(s) being wounded) [25F32(RAVEN)(+62)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- scorpions (+ animal(s) attacking) [25F715(+512)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- scorpions (+ animal(s) being hit, shot, caught) [25F715(+621)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(+21)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (+ stump, stub) [25G3(+211)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- plants and herbs [25G4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dale, valley [25H12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- scorpions (+ poison ~ product of animal) [25F715(+92)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Revenge, Requital, Retaliation; 'Vendetta' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57AA741(+4):52B5111(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Styx (river of Hades); 'Stige' (Ripa) [9.30E+22] Search | Browse Iconclass
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