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SAPIENS MULIER AEDIFICAT DOMUM[1]

Every wise woman buildeth her house

A woman in courtly dress lays bricks on a wall. There are mathematical implements on the ground and a pillar with a symbol on it. The symbol is of two superimposed capital 'A' one of which is inverted.
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Voyez comment ceste Reine s’efforce[2]
De coeur non feinct d’avancer l’edifice
Du temple sainct,[3] pour de toute sa force
Loger vertu, & deschasser tout vice.
Notons que Dieu la rend ainsi propice,
Afin qu’il soit glorifié en elle:[4]
Et qu’on soit prompt (ainsi qu’elle) au service
Dont le loyer est la vie eternelle.

Notes:

1.   Proverbs 14:1

2.  This woman represents Jeanne d’Albret, Queen of Navarre, a leading patron of Protestants in France in the middle of the sixteenth century.

3.  For the ‘temple sainct’, Ephesians, 2:22.

4.  Cf. Psalms 126 (127).

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