When Fortune is bad, she often demands the aid.
Learn good arts then ye studious youth,
Which being sure have with themselves the advantages of destiny.”
Sambucus takes up the lyre of some Emblem Muse and causes Mercury to strike a similar strain to the saying, “Industry corrects nature.”
Induſtria naturam corrigit.
Sambucus, 1564.
Tam rude & incultum nihil eſt, induſtria poſſit
Naturæ vitium quin poliiſſe, labor.