That might reuiue, and helpe when wee bee oulde:
And when wee stoope, and drawe vnto our ende,
Our staggering state, to helpe for to vphoulde:
Yea, when wee shall be like a sencelesse block,
That for our sakes, will still imbrace our stock.”
The Emblems of Joachim Camerarius,—Ex Re Herbaria (edition 1590, p. 36),—have a similar device and motto,—
“Quamlibet arenti vitis tamen hæret in ulmo,
Sic quoque post mortem verus amicus amat.”
i.e.
“Yet as it pleases the vine clings to the withered elm,