Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers / an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616

by Henry Green

Giovio, 1562.

Lo ſparbier ſol tra piu falcon portato.

Franchi gli fa paſſar per ogni loco,

Et par che dica all’ huom triſto & da poco,

Nobil’ è quel, ch’ è di virtù dotato.

Thus we interpret the motto and the stanza,—

“Many falcons the falconer carries so proud

Through every place he makes them pass free;

And says to men sorrowing and of low degree,