This is Emblem 156 from Alciato’s “Book of Emblems.” If you enjoy deciphering this as much as I do, then you’ll enjoy visiting this site containing all of Alciato’s Emblems: http://www.mun.ca/alciato/
On a beautiful maiden snatched away by fate
Why did you dare, o Death, to mislead the boy Love by guile,
so that he would shoot your weapons thinking they were his?
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