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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p><term id="embstma_1667_15601"/>NO state so sure, no seate within this life<lb/>
        But that maie fall, thoughe longe the same haue stoode:<lb/>
        Here fauninge foes, here fained frendes are rife.<lb/>
        With pickthankes, blabbes, and subtill <persName type="mythological">Sinons</persName> broode,<lb/>
        Who when wee truste, they worke our ouerthrowe,<lb/>
        And vndermine the grounde, whereon wee goe.<lb/>
        The <rs>Olephant</rs> so huge, and stronge to see,<lb/>
        No perill fear'd: but, thought a sleepe to gaine<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_15602"/>But foes before had vndermin'de the tree,<lb/>
        And downe he falles, and so by them was slaine:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_15603"/>First trye, then truste: like goulde, the copper showes:<lb/>
        And <persName>NERO</persName> ofte, in <persName>NVMAS</persName> clothinge goes.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_15604"/><foreign lang="la">Foedera mortales ne saeuo rumpite ferro,<lb/>
         Sed castam seruate fidem: fulgentibus ostro<lb/>
         Haec potior regnis, &amp;c.</foreign>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_15601" lang="la"><name type="author">Aelian.</name> de Animal.<lb/>
         lib. 13. cap. 8. scribit<lb/>
         quod Elephanti sunt,<lb/>
         altitudinis 9. cu-<lb/>
         bitorum, altitud. 5.<lb/>
         &amp; lib. 17. ca. 7. quod<lb/>
         viuunt ad aetatem<lb/>
         200. Annorum &amp;<lb/>
         nonnulli ad 300. &amp;<lb/>
         multa mira de illis,<lb/>
         lib. 10. cap. 15.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_15602" lang="la"><name type="author">Cato</name> lib. 1.<lb/>
         Fistula dulce canit vo-<lb/>
         lucrem dum decipit au-<lb/>
         ceps.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_15603" lang="la">Numa Pompilius<lb/>
         Roman Rex 2.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_15604" lang="la"><name type="author">Silius</name> 13.</gloss>
       </p>
      
PREV embstma_1667_emblem155
SEQ 156
PARENT embstma_1667
INTERP_HEN Verletzbare Freundschaft
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem157
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN An elephant is leaning against a tree that a man has begun to cut down
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK embmne_sam1569_emblem135
INTERP_EN Elephant and tree (Faith never safe)
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac150
MOTTO_LA Nusquam tuta fides
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
IC 25F25(ELEPHANT)(+46)
; 25F27(DOLPHIN)
; 25G3(+21)
; 31A2422
; 31AA2515(+933)
; 31A2621(+51)
; 31A2743
; 31D14
; 41D223(+81)
; 41D231(+81)
; 43C114
; 47D8(AXE)
; 47I84
; 48A9844
; 48C24
; 56F23(+4)
; 57AA613(+4)
; 57AA6141(+4)
; 86(NUSQUAM TUTA FIDES)
; 98B(NERO)
; 98B(NUMA POMPILIUS)
INTERP_DAL Nowhere is faith safe
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic150.jpg
ID embstma_1667_emblem156
MOTTO_LA_NORM Nusquam tuta fides
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0