$ LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac189 SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp LINK embmne_sam1569_emblem209 INTERP_EN Bosom nourish serpent (In the bosom to nourish a serpent) URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic189a.jpg SEQ 202 TIPE emblempictura NEXT embstma_1667_emblem203 INTERP_DAL To nourish a snake in one's bosom HIM GUL ; EMBLEMS ; ILL_BOOK ; PLANTIN PARENT embstma_1667 IIHIM GUL ; EMBLEMS ; ILL_BOOK ; PLANTIN IC 25F42 ; 25H11 ; 25I12 ; 26A ; 31A2421 ; 31A2513 ; 31A25161(+933) ; 31A26211 ; 31A534 ; 31D14 ; 34F ; 41D211(+81) ; 41D221(+81) ; 41D233(+81) ; 41D27(+81) ; 45C16(CANNON) ; 45C41 ; 45D21(+21) ; 45D21(+22) ; 45K21 ; 45K23 ; 46C131 ; 46C13181 ; 54AA52(+4) ; 58AA1(+4) ; 61B2(RAPHELENGIUS, Franciscus)3 ; 86(IN SINU ALERE SERPENTEM) ID embstma_1667_emblem202 TEXT_EXPL_XML

THOVGHE, cittie stronge the cannons shotte dispise, And deadlie foes, beseege the same in vaine: Yet, in the walles if pining famine rise, Ot else some impe of SINON, there remaine. What can preuaile your bulwarkes? and your towers, When, all your force, your inwarde foe deuoures.

MOTTO_LA_NORM In sinu alere serpentem INTERP_HEN Selbstverschuldeter Untergang DEDICATION_LA Ad doctissimum V. D. Franciscum Raphelengium in obsidione Antwerpiana periclitantem CAPTION_EN A man nourishes a snake in his bosom and looks down at a city under siege that has allowed houses to be built outside its city-walls MOTTO_LA In sinu alere serpentem PREV embstma_1667_emblem201 TYPE emblem pictura CHILDREN CHILDREN_SQRT 0