Reusner, 1581.
Quæ thuris lacrymis, & ſucco viuit amomi:[[165]]
Fert cunas Phœnix, buſta paterna, ſuas.
Sixteen elegiac lines of Latin are devoted to its praise and typical signification, mixed with some curious theological conjectures,—
“On tears of frankincense, and on the juice of balsam lives
The Phœnix, and bears its cradle, the coffin of its sire.
Always alone is this bird;—itself its own father and son,
By death alone does it give to itself a new life.
For oft as on earth it has lived the ten ages through,
Dying at last, in the fire it is born of its own funeral pile.