"bifid figure -- the title is to be read ""Desperatio facit aut [MONACHUM] aut [MILITEM]"" [it is desperation that makes a man either a soldier or a monk] from the album of Heinrich Christi, dated entries 1641-3 -- image via the HAAB, Weimar. The original proverb in Latin is not registered in TPMA (which only registers Luther's frequent use of ""Desperation makes the monk""!) -- I'm still looking for 16thC occurrences of it -- this present one is pretty early"
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