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File:John Gower world Vox Clamantis.jpg

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See also the globe representation detail.

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.

Source URL: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/images/chaucer/H59_0006v.jpg Ref from: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/chaucer/contemporaries.html

Text on the above image in one version of the Vox Clamantis reads "I throw my darts and shoot my arrows at the world. But where there is a righteous man, no arrow strikes. But I wound those who live wickedly. Therefore let him who recognizes himself there look to himself."

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