
In deprehensum.
Caught.
Emblema xxi.
Iamdudum quacunque fugis, te persequor: at nunc
Cassibus in nostris denique captus ades.
Amplius haud poteris vires eludere nostras:
Ficulno anguillam strinximus in folio.[1]
For a long time now I have been pursuing you wherever you flee; but now you are here, at long last caught in our net. You will no longer be able to elude our power - we have gripped the eel tight in a fig-leaf.
ID susceptum apparet in fugacem quendam de-
prehensum, lubricaeque fidei hominem, qui cùm
vel dolis, vel praestigiis saepius imposuerit, tandem
arctissimis vinculis irretitus ita comprimitur, ut
effugii viam omnem praeclusam habeat. Ducta hîc
similitudo ab anguillae natura, quae quia sit lubrica,
facilé teneri nequit, nisi folio fici scabro & aspero.

Contre un qui est surprins.
LOng temps a que je te pourchasse
Par tous lieux où tu vas fuyant:
Je t’ay assez donné la chasse,
En te suivant, & t’espiant:
Maintenant fault que tu demeures,
Et ne m’en veux plus deffier:
Ainsi j’ay prins à bonnes heures
L’anguille és fueilles de figuier.
IL appert que cecy est dit contre un fuyard
surprins, & homme trompeur, lequel
apres avoir infinies fois affronté par dol
& ruses, à la parfin arresté en seure garde,
n’est possible qu’il puisse eschapper. Icy la
similitude est prise de la nature de l’an-
guille, laquelle estant fort glissante, s’escou-
le aisément, & ne peust estre retenue sinon
par le moyen de la fueille de figuier, qui est
rude & aspre.
1. The rough surface of the fig-leaf made it suitable for gripping slippery objects. See Erasmus, Adagia 395, Folio ficulno tenes anguillam.
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