Under a shameless mistress he has become base and witless,
Has lived as a dog unclean, or a sow in friendship with mire.”
Circe and Ulysses are also briefly treated of in The Golden Emblems of Nicholas Reusner, with Stimmer’s plates, 1591, sign C. v.
Bellua dira libido
Pulcra facit Circe meretrix excordia corda:
Fortis Vlyſseâ, qui ſapit, arte domat.
Ins Bieh verzäubert Circe vil,
Schlägt hurn von sich, mer weiß sein will.
Reusner (edition 1581, p. 134), assuming that “Slothfulness is the wicked Siren,” builds much upon Virgil and Horace, as may be seen from the epithets he employs. We give only a portion of his Elegiacs, and the English of them first,—
“Through various chances, through so many dangerous things,