Book Title: Des menschen begin, midden en einde : vertoonende het kinderlyk bedryf en aanwasch in eenenvyftig konstige figuuren, met goddelyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen / door Joannes Luiken ; met het leven van den autheur

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Novice

Scripture Reference:

• Proverbs 4 (further images / scripture text)

Description: The father, who is with the mother and a small child on the stoop, draws his son’s attention to a number of youths playing on the square in the background. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and for the brief poem that accompanies it (below). The attendant Scripture text is Proverbs 4:14-17.

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Motto:
What stays together, and goes together,
Often becomes good or evil together.

Poem:
O Little Lad, guard thy Heart,
When thou dost grow older;
What is Good, is spoilt by Evil;
Don’t consort with wicked Companions,
Who walk on the path to Hell,
Or else thou wilt share their fate.

(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)

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