Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook,
Augmenting it with tears.”
Graphic and highly ornamented though this description may be, it is really the counterpart of Gabriel Symeoni’s Emblem of love incurable. The poor stag lies wounded and helpless,—the mortal dart in his flank, and the life-stream gushing out. The scroll above bears a Spanish motto, This holds their Remedy and not I; and it serves to introduce the usual quatrain.
D’VN AMORE.
INCVRABILE.
Giovio and Symeoni, 1562.
Troua il ceruio ferito al ſuo gran male
Nel dittamo Creteo fido ricorſo,