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Operam perdere [14]


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Vermogen pijlen iet teghen ghetempert stael
Wtsinnighe schutter? neen! alschoot ghij Duijsentmael,
te laet ghij klaegen sult mijn aenslach wil niet lucken
Als al u Pijlen brosch ghebrijselt sijn, en stucken.
De vijanden van Cristus kerck, Gemeijnt, en Bruijt
En winnen nimmermeer hun zeer begeerde buijt.
Om niet ist en vergeefs dat s' oijt hebben begonnen,
Godts Soon die stercke Helt, sal nimmer syn verwonnen. translation

A cest archer insensé sembloit bien
Qu'à chef viendroit de la chose entreprinse:
Mais sur l'enclume il ne proufite rien,
Pleignant trop tard la peine qu'il a prinse.
Les ennemis de Christ & son Eglise
Lairront ainsi arc, flesches & escu:
Car trop vaine est toute leur entreprinse.
Le fils de Dieu ne peut estre vaincu. translation

OPERAM PERDEREtranslation

xiiij.
Quis furor, hostiles in Christū armare caternas1,
Et nece crudeli perdere velle pios?
Desinite in solidum chalybem torquere sagittas:
Desinite: In propriū vertitis arma caput. translation

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Translations

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Waste of effort.
What madness is this, to arm hostile crowds against Christ
And to want to destroy the pious by cruel death?
Stop aiming your arrows at solid steel.
Stop it: turn your weapons against your own head.


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Literature

  1. Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1408f

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An archer is destroying his arrows by shooting them at an anvil on top of a tree-trunk

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Notes

1
caternas is a misprint in the original: it ought to be 'cateruas' (so the 'u' type is upside down)