Some there are in the world so wickedly bent, & of such despighfull nature, that they are maruellously delighted in gathering togi- ther, all kind of deadly calumnies [ yet ] poisoned tongues can vtter, [ yet ] afterwards if any chance to be pursued by them, they sting him fore, & if they may by any meanes, they will bring him to his graue with sorrow. Wherein they imi- tate the waspes, which feeding vpon [ the ] serpent with great greedines, make their stings more venimous, and therefore the wounds receiued by them are the more perillous & dangerous.
PREV embmne_pae1591_emblem050 SEQ 51 PARENT embmne_pae1591 INTERP_HEN Verleumdung TYPE emblem pictura TIPE emblempictura MOTTO_EN_NORM The wasps, after they have fed of the serpent, pour out their poison NEXT embmne_pae1591_emblem052 IIHIM MNE ; MNE_EMB CAPTION_EN Wasps sucking poison from a dead snake SOURCE_FILE embmne_pae1591.xml LINK_FACSIMILE embmne_pae1591_fac104 MOTTO_LA Transfundit pasta venenum.