<p>IF sence I had, my owne estate to knowe,<lb/> Before all trees, mu selfe hath cause to crie:<lb/> In euerie hedge, and common waye, I growe,<lb/> Where, I am made a praye, to passers by:<lb/> And when, they see my nuttes are ripe, and broune,<lb/> My bowghes are broke, my leaues are beaten doune.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_18401"/>Thus euerie yeare, when I doe yeelde increase,<lb/> My proper fruicte, my ruine doth procure:<lb/> If fruictlesse I, then had I growen in peace,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_18402"/>Oh barrenes, of all most happie, sure<lb/> Which wordes with grief, did <persName>AGRIPPINA</persName> grone,<lb/> And mothers more, whose children made them mone.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_18403"/><foreign lang="la">Certè ego si nunquam peperissem, tutior essem:<lb/> Ista <persName type="mythological">Clytemnestra</persName> digna querela fuit.</foreign> <gloss target="embstma_1667_18401" lang="la"><name type="author">Alciatus.</name><lb/> Quid sterili posset con-<lb/> tingere turpius? eheu,<lb/> Infelix, fructus in<lb/> mea damna fero.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_18402" lang="la"><name type="author">Sueton.</name> in Vita<lb/> Neronis.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_18403" lang="la">Locus è nuce<lb/> <name type="author">Ouidiana</name>.</gloss> </p>

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GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

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emblempictura

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GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

Two boys knocking nuts from a tree

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In foecunditatem, sibiipsi damnosam

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25G11

25G21(NUTS)

25G3(NUT-TREE)(+21)

25G3(NUT-TREE)(+34)

25H11

31A2511(+933)

31A2511(+934)

31AA2512(+933)

31A25513

31A2621(+51)

31A2721

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31D112(+72)

41D211(+83)

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42B832

43C(+4)(STICK)

43C735(+0)

43C755

47I4132

54BB31(+4)

58A3(+4)

86(IN FAECUNDITATEM, SIBI IPSI DAMNOSAM)

On fertility that is harmful to itself

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In foecunditatem, sibi ipsi damnosam