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Non dolo, sed virtute.
Not by deceit, but virtue.
Naguere un singe ayant veu qu’on mettoit
Dedans le feu des chataignes pour cuire,
Deçà & la tousjours se tourmentoit
Se retirant du brasier qui peut nuire.
Pour se couvrir il print un chien dormant
Aupres le feu, & ainsi per cautelle
Au mal d’autruy il couvrit le torment
Qu’il redoubtoit de la chaude estincelle.
Ainsi void-on quelques uns se cercher
Au mal d’autruy les peu grandes richesses,
Et les seigneurs plus souvent se fàcher,
Dont le commun en porte les destresses.
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- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- communal rooms [41A22] Search | Browse Iconclass
- cooking food [41C25] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dog (+ animal(s) being wounded) [34B11(+962)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dog (+ audible means of communication of animal(s): roaring, crying, singing, barking, mewing, neighing, chirping, etc.) [34B11(+949)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fire (one of the four elements) [21C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flame [41B121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fruits: chestnut [25G21(CHESTNUT)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking over the shoulder [31A247] Search | Browse Iconclass
- monkeys, apes (+ animal gripping another animal, human figure, or object) [25F22(+5571)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- monkeys, apes (+ squatting, crouching animal) [25F22(+534)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- old man [31D16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ standing) [31A2621(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- open fire, fire-place, stove (in kitchen) [41C2541] Search | Browse Iconclass
- open hearth, fire-place [41B21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- serving-dish, platter [41C342] Search | Browse Iconclass
- shelves, rack, sideboard [41A712] Search | Browse Iconclass
- smoke [41B162] Search | Browse Iconclass
- table [41A711] Search | Browse Iconclass
- table-knife [41C311] Search | Browse Iconclass
- window [41A33] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- acquiring riches [46A1610] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Cheat, Deceit; 'Fraude', 'Inganno' (Ripa) [57AA621] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Compulsion (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53C21(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- contrast between important and unimportant people; the inferior before the superior, the weak before the mighty [46A23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Cunning, Slyness; 'Astutia ingannevole' (Ripa) [57AA613] Search | Browse Iconclass
- heat [22E1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Rage, Anger [56E2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- spark ~ fire [41B122] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Torment; 'Tribulatione' (Ripa) [56BB12] 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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