Double page with emblem from mikrokosmos = parvus mundus. Emblems, engraved by gèrard de jode, with verses by laurentius haechtanus [haecht goidtsenhoven, laurens van]. Antwerpen: de jode, 1579. This is emblem # 15: sine cerere et baccho friget venus. Translation of explanation:
say, cytherean venus with your cupid: why are you are warming your hands and your feet? is it because eloquent iacchos is not there to help you? and dusty ceres is not around either? where sobriety reigns, pernicious lust freezes and does not start wars against the curii [i. E. Moderate men]. Wherever drunkenness reigns and abundance, the mother of adultery wages abominable wars. Date: 1579.
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