<p><term id="embstma_1667_09001"/>SEE here <persName>VLISSES</persName> men, transformed straunge to heare:<lb/> Some had the shape of Goates, and Hogges, some Apes, and<lb/> Asses weare<lb/> Who, when they might haue had their former shape againe,<lb/> They did refuse, and rather wish'd, still brutishe to remaine.<lb/> Which showes those foolishe sorte, whome wicked loue dothe thrall,<lb/> Like brutishe beastes do passe theire time, and haue no sence at all.<lb/> And thoughe that wisedome woulde, they shoulde againe retire,<lb/> Yet, they had rather <persName type="mythological">CIRCES</persName> serue, and burne in theire desire.<lb/> Then, loue the onelie crosse, that clogges the worlde with care,<lb/> Oh stoppe your eares, and shutte your eies, of <persName type="mythological">CIRCES</persName> cuppes beware.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_09002"/><foreign lang="la"><rs>Sirenum</rs> voces, &amp; <persName type="mythological">Circes</persName> pocula nosti:<lb/> Quae si cum sociis stultus, cupidusque bibisset,<lb/> Sub domina meretrice fuisset turpis, &amp; excors,<lb/> Vixisset canis immundus, vel amica luto sus.</foreign> <gloss target="embstma_1667_09001" lang="la"><name type="author">Virgil.</name> Aeneid. 7.<lb/> <name type="author">Ouid.</name> Metam.<lb/> lib. 14.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_09002" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> 1. Epist. 2.</gloss> </p>

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emblempictura

In Alciatus' Emblemata the motto of this emblem is: "Cavendum a meretricibus"

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GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

The sorceress Circe amidst Ulysses' men which she has changed into animals

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Homines voluptatibus transformantur

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EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

13C33

25F24(BOAR)

25G13

25G3(+21)

25H16

31A2512(+933)

31A2516(+933)

31AA222(+89)

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31B6212

31D15

33C820

34B11(+9491)

41D2321(+82)

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47I214

57AA51(+4)

86(HOMINES VOLUPTATIBUS TRANSFORMANTUR)

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97D281

Men are transformed by pleasures

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Homines voluptatibus transformantur