From the dejected state wherein he is,
He hopes by you his fortune yet may flourish.”
With these I have found nothing identical in any of the various books of Emblems which I have examined; indeed, I cannot say that I have met with anything similar. The sixth knight’s emblem is very simple, natural, and appropriate; and I am most of all disposed to regard it as invented by Shakespeare himself to complete a scene, the greater part of which had been accommodated from other writers.
Illicitum non ſperandum.
Whitney, 1586.
“Spes ſimul & Nemeſis noſtris altaribus adſunt,
Scilicet vt ſperes non niſi quod liceat.”
The unlawful thing not to be hoped for.