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Rieude [=Rien de] reste.
Cela restoit à noz malheurs meschants,
Que les langoustz gastassent tous nos champs.[1]
Veuz les avons en armées plus grandes,
Que d’Atylas, ou de Xerxes les bandes:[2]
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Tout ha mangé foin, mil bled, celle peste.
Espoir perdu, rien que souhaict ne reste.
L’une des dix playes
d’AEgypte furent les
Langoustes, consummantes tout fruict, fleur,
& semence sur terre, & telle fut en Lombar-
die au temps que cest Embleme fut escript,
qui vola jusques en Provence, puys se jecta.
en mer. Sur quoy fut cecy
escript, signifi-
ant que à toute reste perdue, à la chance, ou au
flux ne reste sinon le souhaict, ou le desespoir.
1. Referring to a plague of locusts in North Italy in 1541/2 (as in the commentary).
2. Attila the Hun and Xerxes, King of Persia, were leaders who invaded the Roman Empire and Greece with vast armies in mid fifth century AD and 480 BC respectively. Xerxes’ invasion and Attila’s first invasion both came from the east.
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EMBLEMA CXCI [=190] .
Nihil reliqui.
Nothing left
Scilicet hoc deerat, post tot mala denique nostris
Locustae ut raperent, quicquid inesset agris.[1]
Vidimus innumeras Euro[2] duce tendere turmas:
Qualia non Atilae, castrave Xerxis erant.[3]
Hae foenum, milium, farra[4] omnia consumpserunt:
Spes & in angusto est, stant nisi vota super.
This was all it needed - that after so many misfortunes, finally locusts should seize whatever was in our fields. We have seen countless squadrons encamped, led by Eurus, hosts such as Attila and Xerxes never had. These creatures have eaten up all hay, millet and barley. There is little scope for hope unless our prayers prevail.
Link to an image of this page [R5r f120r]Das CXCI [=190] .
Alls verthon, nichts ubrigs.
Ich hör wol es hat an dem gfelt
Daß die Heuwschrecken unser Feld
Auffressen und blündertens Land
Nach soviel unglück das wir hand
Erlitten, wir haben gesehn
Das der Ostwind her hat thon wehn
Ein grössern hauffen den ghabt hat
Der Azel oder Xerxes drat
Die haben alles Heuw und dweid
Auffgefressen den Hirsch und das Gtreid
Die hoffnung wir jetzt haben klein
Nichts ubrigs dann das gbet allein.
1. Referring to a plague of locusts in North Italy in 1541/2 (as in the commentary).
2. Eurus was the wind from the East.
3. Attila the Hun and Xerxes, King of Persia, were leaders who invaded the Roman Empire and Greece with vast armies in mid fifth century AD and 480 BC respectively. Xerxes’ invasion and Attila’s first invasion both came from the east.
4. Variant reading: corda, ‘later crops’.
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