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Que de la paz naze la abundancia.
Ottava rhima.
Texe guirnaldas de espigas creçidas
Y en derredor la vid rebuelta vaya.
Tal es el nido de las muy polidas
Alcyones,[1] echo desque d’l mar caya
Aquel furor que a las ondas subidas
Haze casi en las nubes hazer raya.
Y si el Rey fuere à aquestas semejante[2]
Con Ceres Baccho harà el año abundante.
1. ‘halcyon birds’. For these see Aelian, De natura animalium 1.36; 9.17; Pliny, Natural History. 10.47.89-91; and for the legend of their transformation, Ovid, Metamorphoses 11, 410ff, esp. 728ff. Halcyons were supposed to build a nest and launch it on the sea at a time of calm peaceful weather provided for them about the time of the winter solstice. See Erasmus, Adagia 1552, Halcedonia sunt apud forum.
2. ‘Y si el Rey fuere à aquestas semejante’, i.e. diffusing peace, love and concord. Before their metamorphosis into seabirds, Alcyone and her husband were a deeply loving royal couple ruling a peaceful country. This love persisted after the change, symbolised by the calm weather associated with their nesting.
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