And grieved, they could not ’scape the Almighty’s eye.”
Whitney. Reprint, 1866, p. 431.
CHAPTER VII.
MISCELLANEOUS EMBLEMS; RECAPITULATION, AND CONCLUSION.
Emblems Miscellaneous will include some which have been omitted, or which remain unclassified from not belonging to any of the foregoing divisions. They are placed here without any attempt to bring them into any special order.
Several words and forms of thought employed by the Emblem writers, and especially by Whitney, have counterparts, if not direct imitations, in Shakespeare’s dramas; he often treats of the same heroes in the same way.
Thus, in reference to Paris and Helen, Whitney utters his opinion respecting them (p. 79),—
“Thoughe Paris, had his Helen at his will,