Link to an image of this page [Nnn3r-f467r as 470] MORUS.
The mulberry
Emblema. 208.
Serior at Morus numquam nisi frigore lapso
Germinat:[1] & sapiens nomina falsa[2] gerit.
On the other hand, the mulberry is late, and never until the frost is past does it shoot; though wise, it bears a false name.
1. See Pliny, Natural History, 16.25.102: “the mulberry is the last of domesticated trees to shoot, and only does so when the frosts are over; for that reason it is called the wisest of trees”.
2. nomina falsa, ‘a false name’, reference to a supposed ‘etymology by opposites’: Latin morus ‘mulberry’ was equated with Greek μῶρος ‘fool’, but the tree was considered wise: see note 1.
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L’amandier.
XLIII.
Pourquoy, hastive, as-tu avant feuilles des fleurs?
Je hay ceux qui trop tost, & hors temps sont ja meurs.[1]
Commentaires.
L’amandier jecte ses fleurs avant ses feuilles: mais
aussi s’il survient du froid, ou quelque autre intempe-
rie de l’air, les fleurs tumbent, & par consequent l’e-
sperance du fruict est estaincte. Il est le type & le
symbole des esprits trop tost meurs: lesquels, à la ve-
rité, promettent bien beaucoup d’eux, estans doués
d’une tant heureuse memoire,
& d’une dexterité
d’esprit du tout admirable. Mais quand ils sont par-
venus à aage viril, alors ou ils viennent hors du sens,
ou du moins ils sont entierement
desnués de ces beaux
dons qu’ils avoyent en jeunesse.
1. See Quintilian (Fabius Quintilianus), Institutio oratoria, 1.3.3: “the precocious type of intellect never easily comes to fruition”.
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