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To G. M. Esquier

Golden shackles

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

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In Alciatus' Emblemata the motto of the emblem is: "In aulicos"

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86(AUREAE COMPEDES)

98B(CODRUS)3

98B(LUCULLUS, L.L.)

98B(POMPEY)3

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<p><term id="embstma_1667_21602"/>IT better is (wee say) a cotage poor to houlde,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_21603"/>Then for to lye in prison stronge, with fetters made of goulde.<lb/> Which shewes, that bondage is the prison of the minde:<lb/> And libertie the happie life, that is to man assign'de,<lb/> And though that some preferre their bondage, for their gaines:<lb/> And richely are adorn'd in silkes, and preste with massie chaines.<lb/> Yet manie others liue, that are accompted wise:<lb/> Who libertie doe chiefely choose, thoughe clad in gounes of frise<lb/> And waighe not <persName>POMPEYS</persName> porte, nor yet <persName>LVCVLLVS</persName> fare;<lb/> So that they may adorne their mindes, they well contented are.<lb/> Yea, rather doe accepte his dwelling in the tonne,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_21604"/>And for to liue with <persName>CODRVS</persName> cates; a roote, and barly bonne.<lb/> Where freedome they inioye, and vncontrolled liue:<lb/> Then with the chiefest fare of all, attendance for to geue.<lb/> And, if I should bee ask'd, which life doth please mee beste:<lb/> I like the goulden libertie, let goulden bondage reste.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21601" lang="la"><name type="author">Erasmus</name> Chi-<lb/> liad. 2. Centur. 4.<lb/> Adag. 25.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21602" lang="la"><name type="author">Diogenes</name> dicebat<lb/> <persName>Aristippum</persName> (philo-<lb/> sophum aulicum)<lb/> aureis teneri compe-<lb/> dibus ne posset ex-<lb/> ire.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21603" lang="la"><name type="author">Tertullianus</name> lib. 6.<lb/> De habitu muliebri<lb/> cap. 4. Apud Barba-<lb/> ros quosdam (quia<lb/> vernaculum est au-<lb/> rum) auro vinctos in<lb/> ergastulis habent.<lb/> De cultu feminar.<lb/> <name type="author">Plutarchus</name> scribit<lb/> autem in Erotico<lb/> apud <rs>Aethiopas</rs> hoc<lb/> in vsu esse.<lb/> De quo etiam <name type="author">Aul.<lb/> Gell.</name> lib. 11. cap. 18.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21604" lang="la"><name type="author">Erasmus</name> Chiliad. 1.<lb/> Centuria 6. Adag. 76.<lb/> de <persName>Codro</persName>.</gloss> </p>

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Unfreiheit des Höflings

A courtier with his legs in the stocks

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