To put no truste, in them that hate theire blood.”
And to the same purport, from Alciat’s 193rd Emblem, are Whitney’s lines (p. 29),—
“Medea nowe, and Progne, blusshe for shame:
By whome, are ment yow dames of cruell kinde
Whose infantes yonge, vnto your endlesse blame,
For mothers deare, do tyrauntes of yow finde:
Oh serpentes seede, each birde, and sauage brute,
Will those condempne, that tender not theire frute.”
The stanza of his 194th Emblem is adapted by Alciat, and by Whitney after him (p. 163), to the motto,—
Pietas filiorum in parentes,—