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[edit]DescriptionJohn Gower world Vox Clamantis (cropped) - Scribal abbreviation "dumq" for "dumque".jpg |
English: John Gower in a portrait from a book with his Vox Clamantis and Chronica Tripertita in Glasgow Univ. Lib., MS Hunter 59 (T.2.17) folio 6v. This is from a revised edition of the book published c. 1400 (before Gower's death). Gower is depicted as an archer with a bow and arrow. Gower prepares to shoot the world, a sphere with compartments representing earth, air, and water. Stockton speculates that the lower half represents the peasantry; the upper quarters represent clergy and nobility.[1]:342
Text on the above image in one version of the Vox Clamantis reads "I hurl my darts at the world and I shoot my arrows; Yet where there is a just man, no arrow strikes. But I wound those transgressors who live evilly; Therefore, let him who is conscious of being in the wrong look to himself in that respect."[1]:342 Ref from: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/chaucer/contemporaries.html
Latin text, transcription: Ad mundum mitto mea iacula dumque sagitto At vbi iustus erit nulla sagitta ferit Sed male viventes hos vulnero transgredientes Conscius ergo sibi se speculetur ibi Latin text, translation, d.lib.rochester.edu : I send my darts at the world and simultaneously shoot arrows; But mind you, wherever there is a just man, no one will receive arrows. I badly wound those living in transgression, however; Therefore, let the thoughtful man look out for himself. |
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- ↑ a b Stockton, Eric William (1962) The Major Latin Works of John Gower, Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. 503
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