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<p>ON goulden fleece, did <persName type="mythological">Phryxus</persName> passe the waue,<lb/> And landed safe, within the wished baie:<lb/> By which is ment, the fooles that riches haue,<lb/> Supported are, and borne throughe Lande, and Sea:<lb/> And those enrich'de by wife, or seruauntes goodds,<lb/> Are borne by them, like <persName type="mythological">Phryxus</persName> through the floodds.</p>

<p>An other of the like argument.<lb/> <seg id="embstma_1667_ded228a" type="dedication">To <persName>M. I. E.</persName></seg> <term id="embstma_1667_228a01"/>A Leaden sworde, within a goulden sheathe,<lb/> Is like a foole of natures finest moulde:<lb/> To whome, shee did her rarest giftes bequethe.<lb/> Or like a sheepe, within a fleece of goulde.<lb/> Or like a clothe, whome colours braue adorne,<lb/> When as the grounde, is patched, rente, and torne.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_228a02"/>For, if the minde the chiefest treasures lacke,<lb/> Thoughe nature bothe, and fortune, bee our frende;<lb/> Thoughe goulde wee weare, and purple on our backe,<lb/> Yet are wee poore, and none will vs comende<lb/> But onlie fooles; and flatterers, for their gaine:<lb/> For other men, will ride vs with disdaine.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_228a01" lang="la"><name type="author">Plaut.</name> in poen.<lb/> Pulcrum ornatum tur-<lb/> pes mores peius coeno<lb/> collinunt.<lb/> Lepidi mores turpem<lb/> ornatum facile factis<lb/> comprobant.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_228a02" lang="la"><name type="author">Bern.</name> in Epist.<lb/> Decor, qui cum<lb/> veste induitur, &amp;<lb/> cum vetse depo-<lb/> nitur: vestimenti<lb/> est, non vestiti.</gloss> </p>

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228

PARENT

embstma_1667

INTERP_HEN

Torheit des Reichen

TYPE

emblem pictura

TIPE

emblempictura

ANNOT

In Alciatus' Emblemata the motto of this emblem is: "Dives indoctus"

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IIHIM

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

CAPTION_EN

Phrixus crosses the Hellespont on the back of a golden ram

SOURCE_FILE

embstma_1667.dmp

LINK

embmne_mig1591_emblem189

LINK_FACSIMILE

embstma_1667_fac213

MOTTO_LA

In divitem indoctum

HIM

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

IC

25D13(GOLD)

25F31(+5262)

25H11

25H131

25H23

25I12

26A

31A2511

31A2518

31A2774(+0)

31B6211

31D14

41D27(+81)

41D91

46C132:47I2131

46C24(+63)

47I2131(+954)

51AA51(+4)

52AA1(+4)

52AA51(+4):46A160

55B1(+4)

86(IN DIVITEM INDOCTUM)

95A(PHRIXUS)32(+0)

95A(PHRIXUS)81

INTERP_DAL

On the ignorant rich man

URL_IMAGE

embstma_1667_pic214.jpg

ID

embstma_1667_emblem228

MOTTO_LA_NORM

In divitem indoctum