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Le bouis.

XXXIX.

Tousjours verd est le bouis, & crespu par la cime,
La flute qu’on en fait rend son harmonieux:[1]
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [N5r p201] Aux delices propre est de ceux qu’amour anime
Il paslit, aussi font tous povres amoureux.[2]

Commentaires.

Le bouis est le symbole d’amour, pource qu’il est
verd mais d’une verdeur pasle. Aussi les amoureux
esperent tousjours, mais ceste esperance n’est jamais
separee de doute & crainte. Le bouis est fort propre
à faire des flutes de toutes façons, l’harmonie des-
quelles fait quelquefois passer la fantasie aux amou-
reux.

Notes:

1.  For pipes of boxwood, see e.g. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.30.

2.  The lover should affect pallor and emaciation, as these will soften the lady’s heart; see Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 1.729ff.

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    EMBLEMA CCIX [=204] .

    Buxus.

    The box-tree

    Perpetuò viridis, crispoque cacumine Buxus,
    Unde est disparibus fistula facta modis:[1]
    Delitiis apta est teneris, & amantibus arbor:
    Pallor inest illi, pallet & omnis amans.[2]

    The box-tree is evergreen, with crinkly shoots. From it was made the pipe with its variously pitched notes. It is a tree appropriate to tender delights and to lovers. Box-wood is pale and so is every lover.

    Das CCIX [=204] .

    Buchßbaum.

    Der Buchbaum ist grün alle zeit
    Der schöne krausse Wirbel treit
    Auß den macht man mancherley weiß
    Liebliche Pfeiffen sonders fleiß
    Dieser Baum tauget zu fried und schimpff
    Und den Bulern zu ehr und glimpff
    Sein Holtz ist gel, also auch all
    Die mit lieb seind verhafft zumal.

    Notes:

    1.  For pipes of boxwood, see e.g. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.30.

    2.  pallet et omnis amans, ‘pale...is every lover’. The lover should affect pallor and emaciation, as these will soften the lady’s heart; see Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 1.729ff.

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