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

POETARVM GLORIA.

De Batilly, 1596.

With the sad fate of Icarus, Le Bey contrasts the far different condition of Poets,—

“Quos Phœbus ad aurea cœli

Limina sublimis Iouis omnipotentis in aula

Sistit, & ætherei monstrat commercia cœtus;

Et sacri vates & Diuûm cura vocantur.

Quos etiam sunt qui numen habere putent.”

i.e.