
Moderata conditio.
The middle way of life.
L’oiseau qui passe au voler
Les monts eslevez en l’air
Qui d’une aisle audacieuse
Rend la carriere hazardeuse
Des nuages & du vent,
Ores il va s’eslevant,
Or’ moyennement il erre,
Ore il s’abaisse vers terre,
Et semble bien meriter
L’Empire de Jupiter.
Cest autre desja fort vieil
S’efforce voler au ciel, Link to an image of this page [C5r p41]Et si sent dedans sa vie
Une forte maladie,
Et si est desja plumé,
Et au combat consumé.
Mais c’est en vain qu’il s’essaye
Bien que les aisles il n’aye
Pesante d’un gros fardeau,
Ainsi comme l’autre oiseau.
Estant aislé il voloit
Au plus hault ou il vouloit:
Mais ores qu’il est sans aisle
Jupiter plus ne l’appelle.
Jamais par legereté
L’homme ne se void porté,
La pesanteur ne l’abaisse,
Pourveu que tousjours il laisse
En moyenne intention
Sa seure condition.
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- attributes of Jupiter: eagle [92B18(EAGLE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds: eagle (+ animal looking over the shoulder) [25F33(EAGLE)(+547)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds: eagle (+ animal with forelegs stretched sidewards) [25F33(EAGLE)(+553)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds: eagle (+ animal(s) being sick; having a disease) [25F33(EAGLE)(+61)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds: eagle (+ feathers) [25F33(EAGLE)(+352)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds: eagle (+ postures of hind leg(s) of animal(s)) [25F33(EAGLE)(+56)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds: eagle (+ postures, positions of animal(s)) [25F33(EAGLE)(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds: eagle (+ very old animal) [25F33(EAGLE)(+24)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sailing-ship, sailing-boat [46C24] Search | Browse Iconclass
- scales [46B3311] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sea (seascape) [25H23] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- 'Immaculata', 'Purisima': Mary, usually standing on a crescent moon, descending from heaven, exempt from original sin (sometimes trampling serpent) [11F232] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Certainty (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52B41(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- diseases [31A46] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Old Age, 'Senectus'; 'Vecchiezza' (Ripa) [31D160] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Temperance, Moderation; 'Misura' (Ripa) [54A43] Search | Browse Iconclass
- winds [26C] Search | Browse Iconclass
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