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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>WHILST <persName type="mythological">CVPID</persName> had desire to taste the honie sweete,<lb/>
        And thrust his hand into the tree, a bee with him did meete.<lb/>
        The boye no harme did doubt, vntill he felt the stinge:<lb/>
        But after to his mother ranne, and ofte his handes did wringe.<lb/>
        And cry'd to her for helpe, and toulde what happe befell:<lb/>
        Howe that a little beast with pricke, did make his finger swell.<lb/>
        Then <persName type="mythological">VENVS</persName> smiling say'd, if that a little bee?<lb/>
        Doe hurte so sore: thinke howe thou hurt'st? that art a childe to see.<lb/>
        For where the bee can pierce no further then the skinne:<lb/>
        Thy dartes do giue so great a wounde, they pierce the harte within.<lb/>
        <foreign lang="la">Cùm quo conuenit aliud ex <persName>Anacreonte</persName></foreign>.<lb/>
        AS <persName type="mythological">VENVS</persName> sonne within the roses play'd,<lb/>
        A busie bee that crept therein vnseene,<lb/>
        The wanton wagge with poysoned stinge assay's:<lb/>
        Whereat, aloude he cri'de, throughe smarte , and teene.<lb/>
        And sought about, his mother for to finde:<lb/>
        To whome, with griefe he vttered all his minde.<lb/>
        And say'd, behoulde, a little creature wilde,<lb/>
        Whome husbandmen (I heare) doe call a bee,<lb/>
        Hath prick'd mee sore alas: whereat shee smil'de,<lb/>
        And say'd: my childe, if this be griefe to thee,<lb/>
        Remember then, althoughe thou little arte?<lb/>
        What greeuous wounde, thou makest with thy darte.</p>
      
PREV embstma_1667_emblem153
SEQ 154
PARENT embstma_1667
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
ANNOT To Petrarch's Laura?
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem155
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN Pursued by bees, Cupid runs to his mother Venus
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK embmne_mig1591_emblem112
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac148
MOTTO_LA Ferè simile ex Theocrito
DEDICATION_EN To Laura
IC 25F31(+5262)
; 25F711(BEE)(+53)
; 25G13
; 25G3(+21)
; 25H11
; 25I12
; 26A
; 31AA2321
; 31A2512(+932)
; 31AA2512(+934)
; 31A2515(+932)
; 31A25552(+932)
; 31A2621(+51)
; 31AA2621(+51)
; 31A3420
; 31A3450
; 31B6211
; 31B6212
; 31D11221(+89)
; 31D15
; 33B9
; 41D211(+82)
; 41D2339
; 41D27
; 47I2431
; 56B1(+4)
; 56BB1(+4)
; 61BB2(..., Laura)3
; 61BB2(NOVES, Laura de)3
; 82AA(LAURA)
; 86(FERE SIMILE EX THEOCRITO)
; 92C4
; 92D1(+0)
; 92D162
; 92D1621
INTERP_DAL Almost the same from Theocritus
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic148.jpg
ID embstma_1667_emblem154
MOTTO_LA_NORM Fere simile ex Theocrito
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0