’Tis thou that spurn’st at right, at law, at reason,
And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him,
Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him.”[[131]]
Dvm Tempvs labitvr, Occasionē fronte capillatā remorātvr. 7.
From David’s “Occasio arrepta neglecta &c” 1605
Very appropriately in illustration of these and other passages in Shakespeare may we refer to John David’s work, “Occasio arrepta neglecta” (4to, Antwerp, 1605),—Opportunity seized or neglected. It contains twelve curiously beautiful plates by Theodore Galle, showing the advantages of seizing the Occasion, the disadvantages of neglecting it. We choose an example, it is Schema 7, cap. 1, p. 117. (See [Plate XII].)
“While Time is passing onward men keep Occasion back by seizing the hair on her forehead.”
Various speakers are introduced,—