$ LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac195 SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp LINK embmne_sam1569_emblem178 INTERP_EN Elephant and serpent (A bloody victory) URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic195.jpg SEQ 211 TIPE emblempictura NEXT embstma_1667_emblem212 DEDICATION_EN To Sir William Standley Knight INTERP_DAL Bloody victory HIM GUL ; EMBLEMS ; ILL_BOOK ; PLANTIN PARENT embstma_1667 IIHIM GUL ; EMBLEMS ; ILL_BOOK ; PLANTIN IC 25F25(ELEPHANT)(+63):31E233331 ; 25F42(+0) ; 25FF411(+763):31E23541 ; 25G11 ; 25H11 ; 25H1123 ; 25I12 ; 31A22611 ; 31A2511(+62) ; 31A2621(+56) ; 31A2711 ; 31A2731(+62) ; 31D14(+72) ; 31E234631 ; 41D221(+81) ; 41D223(+81) ; 41D231(+81) ; 45H50 ; 54F2(+4):31A226110 ; 61B2(STANLEY, William)3 ; 86(VICTORIA CRUENTA) ID embstma_1667_emblem211 TEXT_EXPL_XML
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That still about his legges, with winding cralles:
Throughe poison stronge, his bodie so did swell,
That doune he sinkes, and on the
Which creature huge, did fall vppon him soe,
Those sharpe conflictes, those broiles and battailes maine,
That are atchieude, with spoile on either parte:
Where streames of blood the hilles, and valleys staine,
And what is wonne, the price is deathe, and smarte:
This dothe importe: But those are captaines good,
That winne the fielde, with sheddinge leaste of blood.
dij excelsa tenere;
quanti moeroris est,
de excelsis corruere:
nec tanta gloria se-
qui potest victo-
riam, quanta igno-
minia potest sequi
ruinam.