
La Corneille a en soy ceste finesse,
De monter haut pour sa noix mieux casser
Dessus la pierre en plus grande rudesse.
Ainsi Dieu laisse aucuns pervers hausser,
Par tout ą coup les desrompre & froisser
Plus grievement, ą fin qu’il soit notoire
Que tout orgueil luy seul sait abaisser,
Et ce voyant qu’on luy en donne gloire.

SIC FIET FILIIS INIQUITATIS
This is what happens to the sons/daughters of iniquity
xvi.
En, ut sublimi cornix petit alta volatu,
Deiectura, suo quam tulit ore, nucem.
Saepe etiam ad summos surgit sceleratus honores,
Frangendus casu tristius inde suo.
Behold, as the crow seeks the heights in its lofty flight to let fall the nut which it has picked up in its mouth. So often a wicked man rises to the highest honours from which to be broken the more sadly by his fall.
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- (high) hill [25H113] Search | Browse Iconclass
- animals eating and drinking «« KEY (45) TO 25F animals [25F(+45)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- base (~ column, pillar) [48C1613] Search | Browse Iconclass
- birds [25F3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- breaking something [31A2746] Search | Browse Iconclass
- city-view in general; 'veduta' [25I1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flying animal(s) «« KEY (5262) TO 25F animals [25F(+5262)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fruits (with NAME) [25G21(NUTS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds (with NAME) [25F32(CROW)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees [25G3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- God the Father «« KEY (11) TO 11 Christian religion [11(+11)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Honour, Glory; 'Ampiezza della Gloria', 'Gloria', 'Gloria de prencipi', 'Gloria & Honore', 'Honore', 'Sublimatą della Gloria' (Ripa) [59B31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pride; 'Superbia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins [11N31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Punishment; 'Castigo', 'Pena', 'Punitione' (Ripa) [57BB13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the damned souls, and their punishment [11T5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- warning, admonishing «« KEY (9324) TO 31A the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) [31A(+9324)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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