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In fecunditatem sibi ipsi damnosam.

Fruitfulness bringing its own destruction

Emblema cxcii.

Two boys attacking a tree with sticks.
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Ludibrium pueris lapides iacientibus, hoc me
In trivio posuit rustica cura nucem.
Quae laceris ramis, perstrictóque ardua libro,
Certatim fundis per latus omne petor.
Quid sterili posset contingere turpius? eheu,
Infelix, fructus in mea damna fero![1]

A countryman’s care placed me, a nut tree, at this cross-roads, where I am the butt of stone-throwing boys. I have grown tall, but my branches are broken, my bark bruised, I am attacked with sling-stones, competing on every side. What worse fate could befall a barren tree? Alas, cursed tree that I am, I bear fruit to my own destruction.

HOc transtulit è Graeco Antipatri, seu Stratonis:
similéque est Ovidianum de Nuce argumentum.
Questus est quorundam parentum miserorum de
susceptis liberis, à quibus nonnunquam coniiciun-
tur in extremas aerumnas, & vitae discrimina, unde
illos valdè poenitet se liberos eiusmode tam nefa-
rios & improbos suscepisse.

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Sur la fecondité qui est à soy prejudiciable.

JE làs, pauvre Noyer exposé aux passans,
Mesme aux petits garçons, qui de pierres m’assaillent,
De fondes & bastons à tous coups me travaillent,
Et pour mes fruits avoir cent mille coups je sens:
Si sterile j’estois je n’auroy’ tant d’outrage:
Je rapporte des fruits, mais c’est à mon dommage.

IL a translaté cecy du Grec d’Antipater,
ou de Straton: & est semblable l’argument
que traitte Ovide, en l’elegie du Noyer. C’est
une compleinte que font quelques misera-
bles peres, pour avoir de mauvais garnemens
d’enfans qui les reduisent en piteux acces-
soires & dangers de leurs vies, de maniere
qu’ils ont juste occasion de se douloir pour
avoir de tant meschans & malheureux en-
fans.

Notes:

1.  This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.3, see also Aesop, Fables 152.

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Bonte des enfans envers leurs Peres, ou Meres.

Prosopopoeie.

Young man carrying an old man away from a burning city on his back.
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Quand Eneas portoit hors de peril
Son pere, Aulx Grecs pardonnez. (disoit il)
Gloire n’aurez ung vieil à mort livré.
Grand gloire auray mon pere delivré.[1]

A ung filz est grand honneur de rendre ou sauver
la vie, à celuy duquel il tient la vie apres Dieu, (qui
est son Pere) Qui est le meilleur, & plus louable acte
que jamais feit Eneas.

Notes:

1.  This is based on Anthologia graeca 9.163, a much translated epigram. It refers to the celebrated incident of Aeneas’ rescue of his old father at the sack of Troy, carrying him on his shoulders through the occupied and burning city. See Vergil, Aeneid 2.634ff.

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