Pavpertas immerita.
Dominus pauperem facit & ditat.
1. Regum 2, 7.
Vt Deus auctor opum quas olim Iobus habebat,
Sic paupertatis tum Deus auctor erat.
Qui bonum vtrumq́₃que putat, Dominus quia donat vtrumque,
In animo forti ſemper vtrumque feret.
Providence making Rich and making Poor Coörnhert, 1585.
In the device, the clouds are opened to bestow fulness upon the poor man, and emptiness upon the rich. By brief allusion chiefly does Shakespeare express either of these acts; but in the Tempest (act iii. sc. 2, l. 135, vol. i. p. 48), Caliban, after informing Stephano that “the isle is full of noises,” and that “sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears,” adds,—