As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
Of the world’s ransom, blessed Mary’s Son.”
But in the case of the fourth and fifth knights, it is not the simple adoption of a device which we have to consider; the very ideas, almost the very phrases in which those ideas were clothed, have also been given, pointing out that the Dramatist had before him something more than explanations in an unfamiliar tongue.
The device of the fourth knight is both described and interpreted,—
“A burning torch that’s turned upside down;
The word, Quod me alit, me extinguit.
Which shows, that beauty hath this power and will,
Which can as well inflame as it can kill.”
Act ii. sc. 2, lines 32–35.
Thus presented in Symeoni’s “Tetrastichi Morali,” edition Lyons, 1561, p. 35,—