is the source of many more Poetic ideas. To the Emblem writers as well as to the Poets, who preceded and followed the time of Shakespeare, it really was a constant theme of admiration.
One of the best pictures of what the bird was supposed to be occurs in Freitag’s “Mythologia Ethica” (Antwerp, 1579). The drawing and execution of the device are remarkably fine; and the motto enjoins that “youthful studies should be changed with advancing age,”—
Iuuenilia ſtudia cum prouectiori
ætate permutata.
Freitag, 1579.
“Deponite vos, ſecundum priſtinam conuerſationem, veterem hominem, qui corrumpitur ſecundum deſideria erroris.”—Epheſ. 4. 22.
After describing the bird, Freitag applies it as a type of the resurrection from the dead; but its special moral is,—
“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.”