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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>WHERE couetousnes the scepter doth supporte,<lb/>
        There, greedie gripes the Kinge dothe ofte extoll:<lb/>
        Bicause, he knowes they, doe but make a sporte,<lb/>
        His subiectes poore, th shaue, to pill, and poll?<lb/>
        And when he sees, that they are fatte, and full?<lb/>
        He cuttes them of, that he maye haue theire wolle?<lb/>
        Vnto a sponge, theise are resembled righte:<lb/>
        Which drie at firste, when it with water swelles,<lb/>
        The hande that late did wette it, being lighte:<lb/>
        The same againe, the moisture quite expelles.<lb/>
        And to the flood, from whence it latelie came,<lb/>
        It runnes againe, with wringinge of the same.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_15701"/><foreign lang="la">Orbem iam totum victor Romanus habebat,<lb/>
         Quà mare, quà terrae, quà sidus currit vtrumque,<lb/>
         Nec satiatus erat, grauidis freta pulsa carinis,<lb/>
         Iam peregrabantur, si quis sinus abditus vltra,<lb/>
         Si qua foret tellus, quae fuluum mitteret aurum, &amp;c.</foreign>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_15701" lang="la"><name type="author">Petrus Arbiter</name>.</gloss>
       </p>
      
PREV embstma_1667_emblem156
SEQ 157
PARENT embstma_1667
INTERP_HEN Ausbeutung der Untertanen
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem158
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN A king squeezes water from a sponge; a crowd around a gibbet in the distance
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK embmne_mig1591_emblem147
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac151
MOTTO_LA Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
IC 11D
; 21D
; 25F31(+5262)
; 25F75(SPONGE)
; 26A
; 31A2321
; 31A2512(+933)
; 31A2512(+939)
; 31A2621(+52)
; 31A2723
; 31A5462
; 31D14
; 31D14(+79)
; 31E2355(+6)
; 41A343
; 41A351
; 41D233(+81)
; 44B113
; 44B127
; 44B191
; 44B192
; 44B197
; 44C1
; 44D40
; 44G342
; 46A17
; 47C521(+0)
; 48C1611
; 55CC11(+4)
; 86(QUOD NON CAPIT CHRISTUS, RAPIT FISCUS)
INTERP_DAL What Christ does not take, the treasury snatches
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic151.jpg
ID embstma_1667_emblem157
MOTTO_LA_NORM Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0