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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p><term id="embstma_1667_22301"/>WHEN that <persName>OPIMVS</persName> ritche, had scraped manie a pounde;<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_22302"/>And fil'd his baggs, &amp; coffers full, that wealthe did most abounde.<lb/>
        Yet liu'd hee still in awe, as if it weare offence<lb/>
        To ope his purce, for any neede; hee spared so his pence.<lb/>
        At lengthe, this greedie carle the Lythergie posseste:<lb/>
        That vnneth hee could stere a foote, with sleepe sos ore oppreste.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_22303"/>And languishinge therein, not like for to escape:<lb/>
        His heire, was ioyfull of that sighte, who for his goodes did gape.<lb/>
        But, when that nothinge coulde <persName>OPIMVS</persName> sleepinge let,<lb/>
        The quike Phisition did commaunde, that tables shoulde bee set<lb/>
        About the misers bed, and budgettes forthe to bringe,<lb/>
        And poure the goulde vppon the bourde, that hee mighte heare it ringe.<lb/>
        And bad the heire to tell, and all the standers bye:<lb/>
        With that, hee to the sicke man call'de, what meane you thus to lye?<lb/>
        And will not haue regarde your treasure to preserue:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_22304"/>Behoulde your heire, and all the reste, howe largely nowe they carue?<lb/>
        With that, hee started vp; halfe dead, and halfe a liue;<lb/>
        And staringe on his heapes of goulde, longe time for life did striue.<lb/>
        So that, when nothinge coulde his drousie eies awake,<lb/>
        Such vertue, had the sighte of goulde, that sleepe did him forsake.<lb/>
        Which showes, when dreadfull deathe presentes the lastinge sleepe:<lb/>
        They hardly can departe in peace, whose goulde is rooted deepe.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_22305"/><foreign lang="la">Effigiem <persName>Rex Croese</persName> tuam ditissime Regum<lb/>
         Vidit apud <persName type="mythological">Manes</persName>, <persName>Diogenes</persName> <rs>Cynicus</rs>.<lb/>
         Constitit vtque procul solito maiore cachinno<lb/>
         Concussus, dixit. quid tibi diuitis<lb/>
         Nunc prosunt Regum Rex ô ditissime, cùm sis<lb/>
         Sicut ego solus, me quoque pauperiori?<lb/>
         Nam quaecunq. habui, mecum fero, cùm nihil ipse<lb/>
         Ex tantis tecum <persName>Croese</persName> feras opibus.</foreign>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_22301" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> Serm. lib. 2.<lb/>
         Satyra 3.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_22302" lang="la"><name type="author">Demosth.</name> apud <name type="author">Volat.</name><lb/>
         Qui animum curat,<lb/>
         seipsum curat: qui<lb/>
         corpus, non se sed<lb/>
         sua curat: qui pe-<lb/>
         cuniam, non se, nec<lb/>
         sua curat, sed valdè<lb/>
         aliena curat.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_22303" lang="la"><name type="author">Plut.</name> de Polit.<lb/>
         Maiori odio diui-<lb/>
         tem populus perse-<lb/>
         qui solet, nihil per<lb/>
         benignitaté &amp; gra-<lb/>
         tiam depromentem,<lb/>
         qum inopem, qui<lb/>
         bona subripiat pub-<lb/>
         lica. hoc enim ne-<lb/>
         cessitate domina sti-<lb/>
         mulante, illud ma-<lb/>
         lignitate, atq. con-<lb/>
         temptu fieri arbi-<lb/>
         tratur.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_22304" lang="la"><name type="author">Gregor.</name> in Homil.<lb/>
         Res suas cum mo-<lb/>
         reretur, diues secum<lb/>
         tolleret, si ad peten-<lb/>
         tis vocem, cum vi-<lb/>
         ueret, tulisset: nam<lb/>
         terrena omnia, quae<lb/>
         seruando amitti-<lb/>
         mus, largiendo ser-<lb/>
         uamus.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_22305" lang="la"><name type="author">Auson.</name> in Epig 55.</gloss>
       </p>
      
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TYPE emblem pictura
HIM GUL
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; ILL_BOOK
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COM Opimius was a rich usurer in the age of Horace
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem224
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN A physician tries to cure the ill miser Opimius whose heirs are already assessing his wealth by checking his treasure-chests
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MOTTO_LA Ex morbo medicina
DEDICATION_EN To W. Ro.
IC 22D:25D13(GOLD)
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INTERP_DAL Remedy from disease
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MOTTO_LA_NORM Ex morbo medicina
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