Guillaume de La Perrièrre, Le Theatre Des Bons Engins : Aquel sont contenuz cent Emblemes moraulx / Composé par Guillaume de la Perriere Tholosain
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100 emblems
Emblem 1
Two-faced Janus holding a sceptre with a radiant sun in his left and a large key in his right hand
Pour viure en paix & tranquilité.
Emblem 2
Bacchus and Venus spread a net in which Minerva is caught
Que Vin & Femme, attrapent le plus saige.
Emblem 3
A man shearing a lion
Pour iouer cherche bille pareille.
Emblem 4
A man chasing away flies from a dish of milk; they keep returning even while drowning
Fol, en plaisir s'esgare trop auant..
Emblem 5
A tennis player looks up at a ball lying on a wall
C'est grand abus de laisser son bon heur.
Emblem 6
Masks, worn to falsify the face
Chascun veult faindre & colorer sa ruse.
Emblem 7
A soldier stirring a blazing fire with a sword
Gens courroucez on ne doibt irriter.
Emblem 8
A man eating his own heart
On ne se doibt consumer par tristesse.
Emblem 9
A man putting a ring that is too tight on his finger
Le plus souuent le fol soymesme lye.
Emblem 10
A man seated at a table with a pair of scales and coins
On doibt garder Iustice en toute chose.
Emblem 11
Two men clasping right hands in a landscape
Ne fais amy auant que l'esprouuer.
Emblem 12
An old man warming himself at the fire and a hot-headed young man with sword and shield
Experience corrige l'homme.
Emblem 13
A heavy, well-fed donkey standing in a landscape
Ignorance esleuee, & Science abbaissee.
Emblem 14
A woman tipping a balance with a tiny object
Pour peu de cas, trebuche foy legere.
Emblem 15
A painter at his easel retouching a painting of a nude woman
De n'estre trop en scauoir curieux.
Emblem 16
A headless nude woman standing in a landscape
Difficile est de veoir femme sans teste.
Emblem 17
A man with a staff beside a pig rooting in the dirt
Vertu mesprisee designorantz.
Emblem 18
Venus seated, holding a key and raising a finger, her foot on a tortoise
Ce qu'est requis en la femme prudente.
Emblem 19
A rose bush with blossoms and thorns
Du grand labeur, procede le doulx fruict.
Emblem 20
Blindfolded winged Fortune with a sail leading a blindfolded man by the hand
Cestuy est fol qui se conduict par Fortune.
Emblem 21
A man holding up a sword smeared with honey, surrounded by flies
Contre les Hypocrites.
Emblem 22
A king holding a lion and a fox on a leash
A qui le Prince doibt ressembler.
Emblem 23
A fisherman hauling in his net from a boat
Par trop cuyder & esperer l'homme est deceu.
Emblem 24
Pigs at a trough, one sniffing at a ring on the ground
Vn chascun doibt moderer son estat.
Emblem 25
An archer drawing a large bow to its full extent
Il nous convient travailler par raison.
Emblem 26
Battle of armoured soldiers, with dead and wounded on the ground
Presser ne fault par trop son ennemy.
Emblem 27
Three men at a game of chess
Nous serons veus tous esgaulx en la fin.
Emblem 28
A tortoise untroubled by a swarm of flies
Contre Vertu Fortune n'a pouuoir.
Emblem 29
Fortune emptying a vessel into the net of a sleeping man
La fortune est ingrate aux bons espritz.
Emblem 30
A man plucking a rose from a thorny bush
Grand bien n'auons, sans quelque desplaisir.
Emblem 31
A man striking a sword on an anvil
Presser ne fault son amy follement.
Emblem 32
An eagle with spread wings surrounded by flies
Ne faictz effort à plus moindre que toy.
Emblem 33
A man trying to split a rock with a razor
N'entreprendz rien contre plus fort que toy.
Emblem 34
A nightingale singing on a branch, another fallen dead below
Pour tout scauoir il ne se fault tuer.
Emblem 35
A circular labyrinth with a figure at its centre
Difficile est delaisser volupté.
Emblem 36
A man holding up a net to catch the wind
Impossible est de changer vieil abus.
Emblem 37
A lady looking at herself in a standing mirror on a table
A quelle fin sont trouuez les miroirs.
Emblem 38
A bird singing in a cage
Resiouys toy en toute aduersité.
Emblem 39
A lion leading an army of stags against a stag leading an army of lions
Le bon Souldart vient de bon Cappitaine.
Emblem 40
An enthroned king squeezing a sponge; gallows and wheel in the background
Officiers larrons, fault mettre en roue.
Emblem 41
Three men playing tennis
Le mocqueur doibt endurer mocquerie.
Emblem 42
A donkey surrounded by monkeys
Simplicité l'on repute pour vice.
Emblem 43
A galley rowing against a strong wind
Par vn moyen qui fault, en cherche vn autre.
Emblem 44
A man muddying the water with a pole to catch eels
Guerre & debat temps propice aux meschants.
Emblem 45
Crows feeding on a naked corpse
En tous endroictz flatteurs sont dangereux.
Emblem 46
A man giving a bone to a donkey and straw to dogs
L'homme scauant pouure est, l'ignorant riche.
Emblem 47
An ape crushing its young by embracing it too tightly
Chastier fault les Enfans eu ieune aage.
Emblem 48
Bacchus disguised as Hercules with lion's skin and club
Difficile est de changer sa nature.
Emblem 49
A spider's web in the corner of a room, a chest below
Le Pouure on hayt, le Riche est soubstenu.
Emblem 50
A woman offering a cup of wine to a feverish man in bed
N'incite point le mauuais à mal faire.
Emblem 51
A pilgrim with a winged staff and a tortoise at his feet
Le Pelerin en vieillesse s'arreste.
Emblem 52
An eagle beside an arrow fledged with its own feathers
Ostons de nous cela qui nous decoit.
Emblem 53
A man looking at his face in a hand mirror
Princes meschans, promptement sont congneuz.
Emblem 54
A fowler luring birds into his net with a bird-call
Le Prince doibt euiter les flatteurs.
Emblem 55
A man tugging at a horse's tail while another holds its halter
Force n'a lieu, ou Prudence domine.
Emblem 56
A raven swallowing a snake
Par trop manger, plus meurent, que par glaiue.
Emblem 57
Jupiter with his eagle in the clouds, pouring from a jar
L'homme est ioyeux, puis soubdain deuient triste.
Emblem 58
A man with spear and knife before a lion caught in a net
L'espoir qu'est vain, met l'homme en seruitude.
Emblem 59
Two men playing chess while the house burns; a man rushes in to warn them
Soys diligent au faict de ton mesnage.
Emblem 60
A man trying to frighten a lion with a large mask
Vn homme hardy point ne craint les menasses.
Emblem 61
A hare crouching in the grass, pursued by two hounds
Le mal viuant n'est iamais asseuré.
Emblem 62
Blindfolded Cupid playing the lute to a dancing donkey
Amour contrainct toutes gens estre braues.
Emblem 63
Occasio with forelock, razor and winged heels
Ne refusons Fortune, quand à nous se presente.
Emblem 64
A short man with a disproportionately large head
Le corps bien faict ne rend pas l'homme Sage.
Emblem 65
A cypress tree in a landscape
Vne beaulté ne vault rien sans bonté.
Emblem 66
A man handing money to a lawyer, a ragged poor man beside them
L'argent content faict playder Aduocatz.
Emblem 67
Hammer on an anvil
A cueur Constant, chose n'est qui puist nuyre.
Emblem 68
Youth seated on a ball beside a table clock
Les ieunes Gens n'ont soing de l'aduenir.
Emblem 69
A camel muddying the water with its foot before drinking
L'ignorant hayt Eloquence & Scavoir.
Emblem 70
A naked man swimming with a heavy bundle on his back
Desir d'avoir, faict viure en grand trauail.
Emblem 71
A winged clock on a rock
Au monde n'est rien plus cher, que le temps.
Emblem 72
A pear tree ripening in the rays of the sun
Auec le temps toute chose est cogneue.
Emblem 73
A double-fronted courtier offering a dish while turning away
Traistre & Flatteur disent l'vn & font l'autre.
Emblem 74
A man pouring water into a pot to test it for cracks
Par vn secret leger, esprouue l'estranger.
Emblem 75
A lion hanging from a gallows, another lion fleeing
Nous nous debuons chastier par aultruy.
Emblem 76
A gambler at a table with dice; a ragged man turns away
De Ieu, Misere, & Poureté procedent.
Emblem 77
Blindfolded Cupid holding a sieve into which a man pours liquid
Qui suyt Amour en fin aura disette.
Emblem 78
A man filling a large sailing ship
Impossible est, rendre femmes contentes.
Emblem 79
Cupid working the bellows under an alembic distilling a heart
Mille dangers procedent d' Amour folle.
Emblem 80
A tree half barren and half in leaf and fruit
Le fruict d'Amour Amours grandement se varie.
Emblem 81
Cupid grafting a tree in an orchard
Le Dieu d'Amour, angoisse sur tous ente.
Emblem 82
Ivy strangling a tree
Ingratitude on doibt fuyr grandement.
Emblem 83
A serpent biting its tail on top of a column
C'est grand'Vertu de cognoistre soymesme.
Emblem 84
A hawk seizing a partridge and caught by its feet
Tel cuyde vaincre, qui en fin est vaincu.
Emblem 85
A man blowing at a windmill with a bellows
L'homme discret, n'entrepend l'impossible.
Emblem 86
A prelate showing the light on a high place
Vn bon Prelat doibt monstrer bon exemple.
Emblem 87
A vine with grapes hidden beneath its leaves
De tous les cas fault prendre le meilleur.
Emblem 88
A man and a woman joining hands, an eel slipping from his grasp
La Foy de Femme est de peu de duree.
Emblem 89
A man standing beneath the noonday sun, casting almost no shadow
Au Vertueux Enuie ne peult nuyre,
Emblem 90
A man reaching after a bird that has flown from his hand
Ce qu'on a dict, ne peult estre à redire.
Emblem 91
A barded horse (Bucephalus) trampling a man
Poure enrichy deuient fort orgueilleux.
Emblem 92
A dog and a hare supporting a crown on a column
Craincte & amour font viure en grand honneur.
Emblem 93
A priest joining the hands of a blindfolded, bound bridegroom and a bride
Femme ne prendz pour beaulté ny richesse.
Emblem 94
A naked corpse abandoned by fleas and lice
L'homme indigent, amy n'a quel qu'il soit.
Emblem 95
A carter with a whip beside his fallen mule; God appears in the clouds
Si tu requiers à Dieu ayde, ayde toy.
Emblem 96
A man trying to hold a dolphin on the shore
Difficile est de dompter vne femme.
Emblem 97
A man trampling saffron in a field
Soyons constans en toute aduersité.
Emblem 98
A she-bear licking her shapeless cubs into shape
Le bon scauoir se treuue en le cherchant.
Emblem 99
Hercules with his club fighting the Hydra
Telcuyde estre à repos, à qui vient grand affaire.
Emblem 100
Diligence with a cornucopia on a cart drawn by ants, Famine bound at her feet
Gens paresseux iamais ne seront riches.