The impotent fisherman

Anonymous after Marten van Cleve

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

Harvard Art Museums

etching, illustration of ambiguous salacious sayings

 

The German circumscription reads as follows:

Moch ich in ewrem weierlein Fischen,

wer freud dem hertzen mein

Zu schlappf ist ewre Angelreuth

Darzu ist auch das aß nicht gutt.

 

Free English version:

HE: I would like very much to fish in your little pond,

it would be a great pleasure to my heart

SHE: Your fishing rod is too saggy,

and the lure does not look promising as well.

Done