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Versura inextricabilis.
The intricate creditor exchange
Je prens à interest, & m’endebte en tous lieux
Pour m’acquitter, d’un peu, & ainsi redevable
Je demeure tousjours endebté miserable,
Et m’advançant d’un pied je recule de deux:
Ainsi du bien d’autruy pensant avoir advance
Je sens que plus en plus je vay en decadence.
He! qu’il vaudroit bien mieux ne se soucier tant Link to an image of this page [G6r p107]Et estre pauvre & quicte: ainsi l’homme delivre
Sans les plumes d’autruy pouroit aisément suyvre
Le destin de ses jours, qui le rendroyt content.
La lune est maintenant obscure & puis entiere:
Car du soleil son frere elle prend sa lumiere.
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- arm or hand held in front of the body (+ holding something) [31A2516(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ reaching, handing, giving) [31A2512(+9341)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ receiving something) [31A2512(+935)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bench [41A723] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coin [46B311] Search | Browse Iconclass
- container of textile material: bag, sack [41A777] Search | Browse Iconclass
- cover for table, etc. [41A713] Search | Browse Iconclass
- cupboard [41A731] Search | Browse Iconclass
- customer [46B27] Search | Browse Iconclass
- handwriting, written text [49L7] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head bent forward; bowing [31A244] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head turned to the right [31A2422] Search | Browse Iconclass
- IOU (= I owe you), bond [46B4511] Search | Browse Iconclass
- law and jurisprudence (+ handcuffs, fetters) [44G(+32)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- leaning forward [31A2321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- money-lender, usurer [46B512] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ standing) [31A26211(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- open door [41A3211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other rooms [41A25] Search | Browse Iconclass
- purse, money-bag [41D267] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pushing something [31A2748] Search | Browse Iconclass
- shelves, rack, sideboard [41A712] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting on an elevation [31A2352] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Borrowing, Hiring (+ emblematical representation of concept) [55CC3(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fortune and Misfortune [54F] Search | Browse Iconclass
- interest (~ commerce) [46B4711] Search | Browse Iconclass
- moon as celestial body [24B] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Poverty; 'Povertà', 'Povertà del doni', 'Povertà in uno ch'habbia bell'ingegno' (Ripa) [55BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Regression, Deterioration, Relapse [54FF13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Ridiculousness (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52AA511(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Satisfaction, Contentment; 'Contento' (Ripa) [56B3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sun as celestial body [24A] Search | Browse Iconclass
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