SVNT LACRYMÆ TESTES.

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Ecquid adhuc dubitas? testis sit lacryma flammæ,
Semper vt occluso stillat ab igne liquor.

Loues teares are his testimonies.

The teares of loue do serue for witnessing his wo,
His ardent loue the fyre, the fournace is his harte,
The wynd that blowes it, sighs, that rise from inward smarte,
The limbeke his two eyes, from whence his teares do flow.

Ne fa fede il pianto.

Struggemi Amor in pianto à stilla à stilla,
Serue il mio Amor di foco, di fornace
Il core, i miei sospir d’aura viuace,
E di lambico gl’occhi, e l’acqua stilla.

Tranen ghetuyghen.

De tranen t’aller stondt mijn Liefdes brandt ontdecken/
De Liefde is mijn vier/ mijn hert is een fourneys/
Mijn suchten winden zijn/ die blasen na den eysch.
En d’ooghen het lambijck/ daer ’t water door comt lecken.

Mes pleurs tesmoignent.

Amour me fait en pleurs distiller goute à goute,
Sa flamme sert de feu, de fournaise mon cœur,
Et mes souspirs de vents, nourrissants ma chaleur.
Mes yeux d’vn alambic, qui mes larmes esgoute.

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De tranen zijn getuigen.

The tears bear witness.

[Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria 3.3] Waarom aarzel je nog? Laten mijn tranen getuigen zijn van mijn liefdesvuur, zoals er altijd condens vrijkomt bij vuur dat is opgesloten.

[Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria 3.3] What do you hesitate? Let my tears reveal that I am burning, just as water always trickles from a banked fire.

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Literature

Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1406
Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, pp. 90,113
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 43

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Sources and parallels

Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 44
Extended metaphor of teares, fournace, limbeke, eyes subject of a full sonnet: De Harduyn, Roose-mond [web], sonn. 42, spiritually transposed in De Harduyn, Goddelicke Lof-Sanghen, p. 98.
Latin epigram, concept, pictura: Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8)) [Compare]
Parallel (partial) for the pictura and the principal idea of the subcriptio: Mes pleurs mōn feu decelēt. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)) [Compare]
In motto lacrymae, pictura shows architectural setting: Sunt Lachrymæ Testes. [44] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]

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Sunt Lachrymæ Testes. [44] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
Mes pleurs mon feu decelent. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
Mes pleurs mōn feu decelēt. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))

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A cupid wiping his eyes, kneeling in front of a stove with a retort from which water is dripping into a jar

kneeling figure [31A233]
wiping away tears [31A25344]
weeping [31B6214]
interior of the house [41A2]
view through a window from the inside [41A3372]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
quiver [45C23]
handicrafts ~ drink (+ tools and appliances ~ crafts, industries, agriculture) [47B182(+32)]
tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries (with NAME) [47D8(RETORT)]
Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56BB1(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(SUNT LACRYMAE TESTES)]
suffering, misfortune of Cupid [92D16]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

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Sunt lacrymæ testes [95]

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