
Dum potes vive.
Live while you can
Lors que l’avare pescheur
Jette ses rets pour me prendre
Avec la noire liqueur
Que subit je fais espandre,
Je m’eschappe, & seurement
Je nage profondement. Link to an image of this page [E8r p79]Ceux donc qui ont le moyen
De contregarder leur vie,
Pour eschapper ce lien
Pourquoy laissent-ils l’envie?
Que ne cerchent-ils tousjours
Moyen d’alonger leurs jours?
Fuyons les mortels efforts
Tant que cil qui mist la vie
Icy bas dans nostre corps,
Dans le ciel la reconvie:
Car ce grand Dieu n’aime pas
L’advancement du trespas.
Le pouppe muant couleur
Dans les rochers & le sable
Fruit de la mort le malheur,
Au moyen d’un corps muable
Lequel il colore, & peut
Changer ainsi comme il veut.
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- arm stretched forward (+ reaching for somebody or something, seizing something, touching) [31A2512(+934)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards (+ holding something) [31A2513(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- barefoot [41D2339] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coast [25H13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fisherman [43C128] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fisherman (+ net) [43C128(+4163)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- harbour [46C223] Search | Browse Iconclass
- kneeling figure [31A233] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking downwards [31B6212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- molluscs (with NAME) [25F72(OCTOPUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- molluscs: squid (+ postures of the head ~ animal) [25F72(SQUID)(+54):33B9] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sailing-ship, sailing-boat [46C24] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sheep (+ animals eating and drinking) [47I213(+945)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sheep (+ herd, group of animals) [47I213(+9441)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trousers, breeches (+ worn or torn clothes) [41D231(+7)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- colours, pigments, and paints (with NAME) [22C4(BLACK)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Deity, God (in general) ~ Christian religion [11A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Disapprobation, Disapproval, Rebuking [57BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dunes (sea not visible); in the dunes [25H1321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- escape, escape attempts [44G316] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Human Life; 'Vita humana', 'Vita inquieta', 'Vita e l'animo' (Ripa) [58B21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Mortality, Extinction of Life [58BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Mutability; 'Immutatione' (Ripa) [51K2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rocky coast [25H131] Search | Browse Iconclass
- seeking death, suicide [31E238] Search | Browse Iconclass
- swimming (movement in water) [31A2773] Search | Browse Iconclass
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