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tetrastichon.
Virtuti meritum cupienti scandere honorem
Praeparat ambiguum sudor anhelus iter.
Cominus hanc sequitur livor, qui more nefando
Vipereum rabido virus ab ore vomit.
Panting sweat prepares the road for the man who wishes to scale the ambiguous heights of honour deserved through virtue. And this is followed by Envy, who (in an unspeakable way) vomits viper’s poison from a raving mouth.
quatrain.
Vertu ne peult ą honneur parvenir,
Sans que sueur le chemyn luy appreste:
Mais apres elle Envie veoit venir,
Qui de vomir poyson est tousjours preste.
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- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- branch, stick ®® KEY (22) TO 25G plants; vegetation [25G(+22)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown [41D211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- feathers [25F(+352)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- female (human being) (not to be used where -AA- is prescribed) [31A(+82)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- gear for legs and feet [41D233] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear and clothing for the upper part of the body [41D22] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Invidia (Envy) as Roman personification [96A5(INVIDIA)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- nimbus, halo ~ radiance emanating from persons or things [22C311] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rocks [25H112] Search | Browse Iconclass
- snakes [25F42] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- temple of 'Sapientia', with seven columns [11M11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) [31A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries (with NAME) [47D8(AXE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (with NAME) [25G3(PALM-TREE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ugly old woman, hag [31D172] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Virtus as Roman personification [96A5(VIRTUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- vomiting [31A63] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Honour, Glory; 'Ampiezza della Gloria', 'Gloria', 'Gloria de prencipi', 'Gloria & Honore', 'Honore', 'Sublimatą della Gloria' (Ripa) [59B31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- poison ~ product of animal «« KEY (92) TO 25F animals [25F(+92)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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