
Vera amicitia.
True friendship
Le coeur est maintenu par la [=le]
ciel & la terre
Dont le noeud consentant jamais ne se deserre:
Ainsi est l’amitié conduicte par accord:
Laquelle aux simulez ne preste le support.
La vertu la maintient qui point ne dissimule:
Mais aujourd’huy helas! La foy demeure nulle,
Des que le gaing deffaut il n’y a plus d’amour,
Et pour bien peu de chose honneur n’y faict sejour.
Aussi certainement les humains ne s’asseurent
En leurs consentemens lesquels gueres ne durent:
Car il faut par sur tout que la religion
En deux parfaicts amis conjoingne l’union. Link to an image of this page [A7v p14]He! que sert à celuy qui mettre sa fiance
En un Turc ennemy qui n’a point de croyance,
Et qui en quelques dieux vainement se fiant
Va de la Deité la grandeur abayant?
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Relating to the image:
- adult man (+ two persons) [31D14(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm raised upward (+ receiving something) [31A2511(+935)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flame [41B121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- forest, wood [25H15] Search | Browse Iconclass
- friends [33A5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hand [31A2245] Search | Browse Iconclass
- heart [31A2221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- legs in different position (+ standing) [31A262(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ standing) [31A26211(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- road, path [46C11] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- Acquisition, Gain, Profit [55A1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Agreement, Unity; 'Concordia', 'Concordia insuperabile', 'Concordia militare', 'Concordia di Pace', 'Unione civile' (Ripa) [54E31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Asiatic races and peoples (with NAME) [32B33(TURKS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Christian Religion vs. Mohammedanism [11P161] Search | Browse Iconclass
- earth, world as celestial body [25] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Falsehood [52AA6] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fidelity; 'Fedeltà' (Ripa) [57A62] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Friendship; 'Amicitia' (Ripa) [56F23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- heaven, celestial paradise, New Earth [11S] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Virtuousness; 'Amor di Virtù', 'Attione virtuosa', 'Guida sicura de' veri honori', 'Virtù', 'Virtù insuperabile' (Ripa) [57A6] Search | Browse Iconclass
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