Emblem 95

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Al poogter menigh mésch de Waerheyt t'onderdrucké, Ten sal hem evenwel, ten sal hem niet gelucken; Hier baet geen slim beleyt, geen list of loose vont, Geen boose klapperny, geen af-gerichte mont. De waerheyt aengeranst met drift van quade tongen Wert somtijts met gewelt als in het graf gedrongen, Als in het stoff gedruckt, soo dat, gelijck het schijnt, Haer luyster, blijde verw, en alle glans verdwijnt; Maer schoon de reyne maeght is in den kuyl gesteken, Sy weeter evenwel, sy weeter uyt te breecken, Sy opent, jae het graf, sy licht de gantsche serck, Al isse noch soo swaer, al isse noch soo sterck. De waerheyt, schoon verkracht, en laet haer niet bedervē; De waerheyt, schoon gewont, en kā doch nimmer stervē; De waerheyt recht haer op, al isset yemant spijt; De waerheyt is van outs een dochter van den tijt; De waerheyt, watmen doet, en is niet in te dwingen, Al sou de felste rots in duysent stucken springen; De waerheyt bortelt uyt gelijck een sonne-schijn, De waerheyt, hoe het gae, wil niet begraven zijn.

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Though many a man tries to suppress the Truth, it will nevertheless not succeed for him, it will not succeed; here no cunning policy avails, no trick or sly device, no wicked gossip, no well-drilled mouth. Truth, assailed by the rush of evil tongues, is sometimes forced by violence as it were into the grave, pressed as into the dust, so that, as it seems, her lustre, her cheerful colour and all her brightness disappear; but although the pure maiden is thrust into the pit, she still knows how, she still knows how to break out; she opens, yes, the grave, she lifts the whole tombstone, however heavy it is, however strong it is. Truth, though violated, does not let herself be destroyed; Truth, though wounded, can nevertheless never die; Truth raises herself up, however much it vexes anyone; Truth is from of old a daughter of Time; Truth, whatever one does, cannot be constrained, though the fiercest rock should burst into a thousand pieces; Truth bubbles forth like a ray of sunshine; Truth, however it goes, will not be buried.