<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>

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Verletzbare Freundschaft

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emblempictura

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GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

An elephant is leaning against a tree that a man has begun to cut down

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Elephant and tree (Faith never safe)

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Nusquam tuta fides

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

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)

Nowhere is faith safe

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Nusquam tuta fides