
In secundis consistere laudabile quoque.
It is also admirable to stand in the second place
Orphee fut bon maistre à jouër de la lyre,
Parquoy on luy sacra le cigne doux-chantant.
Homere, pour second, qui sceut aussi bien dire,
Eut le doux rossignol[1] au gosier esclattant.
Mais on eust mieux donné la louange seconde
A Orphee qui n’eut la langue si faconde.
Car comme est la louange au perroquet premiere Link to an image of this page [D6v p60]Que la jasarde Pie apres a merité
Ainsi Orphee est-il second apres Homere.
Or l’embleme present peut estre r’apporté
A ceux qui n’ayans point la louange excellente,
Acquierent par vertu celle qui est suyvante.
1. Philomela, sister of Procne, turned into a nightingale.
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- (story of) Homer [98B(HOMER)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm or hand held in front of the body - AA - both arms or hands (+ holding something) [31AA2516(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- armorial bearing, heraldry (with NAME of family) coat of arms [46A122(HOMER)1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- armorial bearing, heraldry (with NAME of family) coat of arms [46A122(ORPHEUS)1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Orpheus (with NAME) [94O8(LYRE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- author, poet writing [48C911] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- book - MM - book open [49MM32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- column, pillar ~ architecture [48C161] Search | Browse Iconclass
- handwriting, writing as activity [49L11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head turned to the right [31A2422] Search | Browse Iconclass
- lyre, cithara, psaltery [48C7321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- old man [31D16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ sitting) [31A2621(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one person playing string instrument (plucked) [48C7522] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ornamental birds: parrot (+ animals used symbolically) [25F35(PARROT)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Orpheus playing the lyre [94O51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pen [49L51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting on an elevation [31A2352] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: magpie (+ animals used symbolically) [25F32(MAGPIE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: nightingale (+ animals used symbolically) [25F32(NIGHTINGALE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- water-birds: swan (+ animals used symbolically) [25F36(SWAN)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Hierarchical Order (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51E(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Praise, Approbation, Approval; 'Lode' (Ripa) [57B1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Virtuousness; 'Amor di Virtù', 'Attione virtuosa', 'Guida sicura de' veri honori', 'Virtù', 'Virtù insuperabile' (Ripa) [57A6] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Worth, Value (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54B6(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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