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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>LO <persName type="mythological">CVPID</persName> here, the honie hyes to taste,<lb/>
        On whome, the bees did straight extende their power:<lb/>
        For whilst at will he did their labours waste,<lb/>
        He founde that sweete, was sauced with the sower:<lb/>
        And till that time hee thought no little thinges,<lb/>
        Weare of suche force: or armed so with stinges.<lb/>
        The hyues weare plac'd accordinge to his minde,<lb/>
        The weather warme, the honie did abounde.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_15301"/>And <persName type="mythological">CVPID</persName> iudg'd the bees of harmelesse kinde,<lb/>
        But whilste he tri'de his naked corpse they wounde:<lb/>
        And then to late his rashe attempte hee ru'de,<lb/>
        When after sweete, so tarte a taste insu'de.<lb/>
        So ofte it happes, when wee our fancies feede,<lb/>
        And only ioye in outwarde gallant showes.<lb/>
        The inwarde man, if that wee doe not heede,<lb/>
        Wee ofte, doe plucke a nettle for a rose:<lb/>
        No baite so sweete as beautie, to the eie,<lb/>
        Yet ofte, it hathe worse poyson than the bee.<lb/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_15301" lang="la">Paradis. Poëticus.<lb/>
         Melle gerunt perfusa,<lb/>
         gerunt perfusa veneno,<lb/>
         Et sua spicula apes,<lb/>
         &amp; sua spicula amor.</gloss>
       </p>
      
PREV embstma_1667_emblem152
SEQ 153
PARENT embstma_1667
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
ANNOT In Alciatus' Emblemata the motto of the emblem is: "Dulcia quandoque amara fieri"
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem154
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN Pursued by bees, Cupid flees to his mother Venus
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK embmne_mig1591_emblem111
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac147
MOTTO_LA Fel in melle
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
IC 25F711(BEE)(+53)
; 25G13
; 25H11
; 26A
; 31AA2351
; 31A2511(+934)
; 31A2512(+933)
; 31AA2512(+932)
; 31A25552(+932)
; 31AA2626(+55)
; 31A2762
; 31A3420
; 31A3450
; 31B6211
; 31D1221(+89)
; 31D15
; 33B9
; 41A17
; 41D211(+82)
; 41D2332(+82)
; 41D27(+82)
; 47I242
; 54A7(+4):51GG1(+4)
; 56B1(+4)
; 56BB1(+4)
; 86(FEL IN MELLE)
; 92C4
; 92D1621(+0)
; 92D18(BOW)
INTERP_DAL Bitterness in honey
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic147.jpg
ID embstma_1667_emblem153
MOTTO_LA_NORM Fel in melle
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0