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Boys, behold here the life of monkeys / Depicted and also described [(...)]
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Leaf with 4 depictions of monkeys behaving like humans. Below each image a four-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 83.
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Credit lineJongens, ziet hier 't aapen leven / Afgebeeld en ook beschreven [(...)]. 1806 - 1830. Johan Noman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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Wherever you rule / there stands the seafaring men / As this print depicts / in the kingdom of monkeys
Where folly reigns / there stands the seamen / As this print depicts / in the kingdom of apes
Learn this, oh young youth / But do not gaze at / All that is spread on the world's stage / It is the true play of the apes
Learn This, O Young Youth, / But Do Not Gape at Everything / That is Displayed on the World's Stage; / It is the True Play of Monkeys
Vigilance and the practice of virtue, sources of happiness and joy, / Are proclaimed to you in these fable prints, dear youth!
See, children, a dozen new figures, / They show you all kinds of funny tricks / One fights and one laughs, one eats and one plays, / Thus in the world everything is always divided