Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,
Unmannerly intruder as thou art!”
Arion rescued by the Dolphin is another mythic tale in which poets may well delight. Alciatus (Emblem 89, edition 1581), directs the moral, “against the avaricious, or those to whom a better condition is offered by strangers.” Contrary to the French writers of time and place, the emblem presents in the same device the harpist both cast out of the ship and riding triumphantly to the shore.
In auaros, vel quibus melior conditio ab
extraneis offertur.
Emblema LXXXIX.
Alciat, 1581.
Delphini inſidens vada cærula ſulcat Arion,