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EMBLEMA CLXXXV [=184] .
In momentaneam felicitatem.
Transitory success
Aeream [=Aeriam]
propter crevisse Cucurbita pinum
Dicitur & grandi luxuriasse coma.
Cur [=Cum]
ramos complexa, ipsumque egressa cacumen,
Se praestare aliis credidit arboribus.
Link to an image of this page [R1r f116r]Cui pinus. Nimium brevis est haec gloria, nam te
Protinus adveniet quae malè perdat[1] hyems.
A gourd, it is said, grew beside a lofty pine and flourished with abundant foliage. When it had enveloped the branches and grown taller than the tree-top, it then thought itself superior to the other trees. The pine said to it: This glory is exceedingly brief. For winter will shortly come which will utterly destroy you.
Das CLXXXV [=184] .
Von der vergenglichen glückse-
ligkeit.
Man sagt daß ein mal auff ein zeit
Gewachsen sey ein Kürbs gar breit
Nahend bey einer hohen Thann
Und hab sich gwaltig auffgethan
Dieweil sie aber umb all Est
Und deß Baums gipffl hett gwickelt fest
Meint sie sie wer herrlicher dann
All ander Bäum im grünen Tham [=Thann]
Zu dem sprach die Thann, heb gsell gut
Diß dein hoffart und stoltzer mut
Wirt nit lang wären, dann gar bald
Dich auffreiben wirt der Winter kalt.
1. Textual variant: ‘perdet’.
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