Sambucus, 1564.
And again, adopting the Emblem of John Sambucus, edition Antwerp, 1564, p. 184,[[110]] and the motto,
Nusquam tuta fides,—
“Trustfulness is never sure,”
with the exemplification of the Elephant and the undermined tree, Whitney writes (p. 150),—
“No state so sure, no seate within this life
But that maie fall, thoughe longe the same haue stoode:
Here fauninge foes, here fained frendes are rife.
With pickthankes, blabbes, and subtill Sinons broode,
Who when wee truste, they worke our ouerthrowe,