Allegory of the Flourishing State of the United Provinces

Translation

EMBLEM.
OF THE PRESENT
STATE OF AFFAIRS
IN
CONFEDERATED BELGIUM.

An august, vivid, and beautiful maiden; standing in a rather elevated
place, under the shade of trees to which the emblems of the confederated
Regions are affixed, BELGIUM:
Surrounding her, moreover, is a crown of the seven liberal arts, to which
an eighth, Mercury, is added among the shrubs; he designates the
flourishing pursuits of Letters and Commerce.
The plain below, to the left from you, clearly exhibits Agriculture
disturbed; workshops in evidence; prosperous Commerce; long-distance
Navigation, the growth of Cities, and other things of that kind.
War itself, however, is compared to a Hunt; our returning Nimrod on
horseback, Nassau, with his companion Pallas; secures a huge prey,
to be offered to confederated Belgium through the hands of Victory.
This is the Summary of the Table.

AMSTERDAM
Printed by Hermann Alardz
IN THE YEAR FROM THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
1602.

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