
La force d’amour.
Cruel enfant si ton feu brusle & ard
Les cueurs humains par flammes & flammesches,
Pourquoy ton arc tire il tant de flesches?
Veulx tu soubz toy chascun faire soudard

LE Dieu d’amour l’enfant tresinhumain
Tient ung bel arc dedans sa dextre main,
Dont il descoche une ague sajette,
Que rudement contre une dame il jette.
Dont il la navre & fiert par grand rigueur,
Tant qu’elle pert de raison la vigueur.
Elle a le coup dont la playe est profonde,
Qui ne guerit pour quelque herbe du monde,
Et qui pis est, impossible est qu’on tire
Hors de son cueur le fer plein de martire.
En l’aultre main tient ung feu plein de flamme
Dans ung cornet dont il brusle & enflamme,
Ung amoureux lequel ne peult trouver,
Contre ce feu ung assez froid hiver.
En vivant meurt, il a vie en mourant,
Et est sans cesse en ce feu demourant,
Qui tousjours brusle & ne peult consommer.
Sy on s’enquiert pourquoy le dieu d’aymer
Use de feu, le cas est tout notoire,
Qu’il ne povoit de son bel arc D’yvoire
Tant descocher, qu’il peust chascun attaindre,
Dont à Venus sa mere s’alla plaindre,
Qui tout soubdain luy feit present & don
De la moytié de son ardent brandon,
Pour en brusler les amoureulx infames,
L’arc & les traictz il garda pour les femmes.
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- arm held downwards [31A2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm or hand held in front of the body [31A2516] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards [31A2513] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(ARROW)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(TORCH] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bent legs extended forwards or backwards, with knee or foot placed on an elevation [31A2622] Search | Browse Iconclass
- boy (child between toddler and youth) [31D11221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coat, cape [41D212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown [41D211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fire (one of the four elements) [21C] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- head-gear and clothing for the upper part of the body [41D22] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Cruelty, Ferocity; 'Crudeltà', 'Ferocità' (Ripa) [57AA91] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosità dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) [54A7] Search | Browse Iconclass
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