So also after death the true friend loves.”
And in the Emblems of Otho Vænius (Antwerp, 1608, p. 244), four lines of Alciat being quoted, there are both English and Italian versions, to—
“Loue after death.”
“The vyne doth still embrace the elme by age ore-past,
Which did in former tyme those feeble stalks vphold,
And constantly remaynes with it now beeing old,
Loue is not kil’d by death, that after death doth last.”
And,—
“Ne per morte muore.”
“s’Auiticchia la vite, e l’olmo abbraccia,