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Dolus in suos.

Treachery against one’s own kind.

Emblema l.

Several birds diving into a net held by men behind a tree
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Altilis allectator anas, & caerula pennis,
Assueta ad dominos ire redire suos,
Congeneres cernens volitare per aëra turmas,
Garrit, in illarum se recipítque gregem,
Praetensa incautas donec sub retia ducat:
Obstrepitant captae, conscia at ipsa silet.
Perfida cognato se sanguine polluit ales,
Officiosa aliis, exitiosa suis.[1]

The well-fed decoy duck with its green-blue wings is trained to go out and return to its masters. When it sees squadrons of its relations flying through the air, it quacks and joins itself to the flock, until it can draw them, off their guard, into the outspread nets. When caught they raise a protesting clamour, but she, knowing what she has done, keeps silence. The treacherous bird defiles itself with related blood, servile to others, deadly to its own kind.

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TOrquetur hoc in eos proditione infames Cory-
caeos, & sycophantas improbos, qui cùm ani-
mo esse amico & benevolo sese profiteantur, ut
incautis & minus providis faciliùs imponant, nihil
non fingunt, nihil non simulant, ut insontes, mini-
méque malos homines in summum discrimen con-
iiciant. Quod fit, cùm post sermones ultro, citró-
que habitos, obiiciunt miseris & incautis vel de-
testandum sortilegii aut haereseos crimen, vel deni-
que aliquid aliud, ex quo sunt illi correpti, dela-
tíque ad extremum usque vitae famaeque pericu-
lum, unde vix ac ne vix quidem se possunt expe-
dire.

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TRAHISON CONTRE
les siens commise.

LA Cane privee & grise,
Nourrie à ceste entremise
Pour aller & pour venir;
Voyant les Canes sauvages,
Les attire dans ses cages.
Et les scet entretenir.
Mais c’est qu’elle les abuse
Par une apostee ruse,
Les attrayant aux fillets.
Elles prinses, font murmure:
L’autre se taisant l’endure,
Meschant’ traistresse qu’elle est.
La perfide faict service
Usant de tel malefice,
Pour ainsi trahir les siens:
Aux estrangers serviable,
Aux siens prejudiciable,
Qui en perdent corps & biens.

CEcy est dit à l’encontre d’aucuns rusez,
traistres & meschans calomniateurs, les-
quels faisant semblant d’estre amis pleins de
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en toutes façons, afin d’affronter ceux qui
moins y prennent garde, & amenent à perdi-
tion les hommes simples & moins mauvais.
Ce qu’ils font apres avoir tenus quelques
propos ensemblement, mettant à sus que
telles gens sont atteins de l’execrable crime
de sortilege, ou heresie, ou de quelque autre
tache, qui faict qu’ils sont tirez en extreme
danger de leur vie, ou de leur reputation: de
maniere qu’à grand’ peine se peuvent ils
jamais tirer de là.

Notes:

1.  Cf. Aesop, Fables, 282, where the decoy birds are pigeons.

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EMBLEMA CXVIII.

In divites publico malo.

Those who grow rich out of public misfortune

Anguillas quisquis captat, si limpida verrat
Flumina, si illimes ausit adire lacus,
Cassus erit, ludetque operam: multum excitet ergo
Si cretae, & vitreas palmula turbet aquas,
Dives erit: sic iis res publica turbida lucro est,
Qui pace, arctati legibus, esuriunt.[1]

If anyone hunting eels sweeps clear rivers or thinks to visit unmuddied lakes, he will be unsuccessful and waste his efforts. If he instead stirs up much clay and with his oar churns the crystal waters, he will be rich. Likewise a state in turmoil becomes a source of profit to people who in peace go hungry, because the law cramps their style.

Das CXVIII.

Wider die so reich mit andern scha-
den werden.

Ein jeder der Ael fahen wil
So er die hellen Wasser stil
Fischt, und so er sich understeht
Und in die lautern gruben geht
Der schafft vergebns und sein müh ist
Umb sonst, so er aber mit list
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Vil gmür auff rürt, hat er gut gwinn
Also ist auch die Policei nütz
Die mit vil auffruhr wirt verstürtzt
Denen die sonst im fried und ruh
Darben und haben nicht darzu.

Notes:

1.  Cf. Erasmus, Adagia, 2579 (Anguillas captare).

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