
MILLE DOULEURS ENSUY-
vent Volupté.[1]
LE visage en est beau; toutesfois eshonté:
L’allure en est superbe, inconstante, & legere:
Les deux aisles la font mobile & passagere:
Et gardent qu’elle n’a son sejour arresté.
Telle est artistement peinte la Volupté;
Dont l’infame pouvoir noz sens troublez atterre;
Peste des bon esprits, des vices nourriciere;
Amorce de tous maux; source d’impieté.
Sa nasse a l’ouverture aggreablement belle;
Riche de mille fleurs: mais dedans elle cele
Le vergongneux deffaut, la honte, & la langueur.
Nul ne glisse dedans, qui de ces maux s’exempte:
Nul n’est d’elle appasté, qui quand & quand ne sente
De son glaive meurtrier l’homicide rigueur.

Ad Carolum Renaldum Pontimussanum.[2]
Inescat & perdit.
She allures and destroys.
PUlchra sed effraenis, gressuque odiosa superbo est;
Et tremulâ alarum mobilitate levis.
Haec nassam incautis ornatam floribus offert;
Quâ pudor, & morbi, pauperiesque latent.
She is beautiful but shameless, hideous in her proud gait; and light [=fickle] with the restless speed [=inconstancy] of her wings. She offers a lure/bait decorated with unexpected flowers; in which shame and disease/sorrows and poverty lie hidden.
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- adult woman (+ two persons) [31D15(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- animals wings of an animal [25F(+342)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- city-view in general; 'veduta' [25I1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase [41A773] Search | Browse Iconclass
- container of glass: bottle, jar, vase [41A774] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fish-trap [43C1(+4164)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fishing (sports) [43C12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flowers [25G41] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Greek script [49L13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- inscription [49L8] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Licentiousness, Lasciviousness; 'Lascivia', 'Licenza' (Ripa) [57AA51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- protective weapons (with NAME) [45C19(SHIELD)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- road, path [46C11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sphinx (lion/woman); 'Sfinge' (Ripa) [31A45231] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries (with NAME) [47D8(KNIFE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- urn [42E34] Search | Browse Iconclass
- village [25I2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Voluptas as Roman personification [96A5(VOLUPTAS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- watermill in landscape [25I42] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- Beauty; 'Bellezza' (Ripa) [51D4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Impiety; 'Impietà' (Ripa) [11N43] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Inconstancy; 'Incostanza', 'Instabilità', 'Instabilità overo Incostanza' (Ripa) [53AA21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Indecency, Impudence; 'Sfacciatigine' (Ripa) [57AA5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) [56BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Poverty; 'Povertà', 'Povertà del doni', 'Povertà in uno ch'habbia bell'ingegno' (Ripa) [55BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pride, Loftiness; 'Alterezza in persona nata povera civile' (Ripa) [57AA64] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Shame [57A4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Vice, Evil, Sin; 'Peccato' (Ripa) [11N1] Search | Browse Iconclass
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