[87]. See Les Emblemes de Maistre Andre Alciat, mis en rime françoyse, Paris, 1540.

[88]. The device, however, of this Emblem is copied from Symeoni’s Vita et Metamorfoseo d’Ovidio, Lyons, 1559, p. 72; as also are some others used by Reusner.

[89]. In Troilus and Cressida, act i. sc. 3, l. 39, vol. vi. p. 142, we read,—

“Anon beheld

The strong-ribb’d bark through liquid mountains cut,

Bounding between the two moist elements,

Like Perseus’ horse.”

[90]. The description and quotations are almost identical with the Whitney Dissertations, pp. 294–6.

[91]. See Whitney’s Fac-simile Reprint, plate 32.

[92]. In the work of Joachim Camerarius, just quoted, at p. 152, to the motto, “Violentior exit,”—The more violent escapes, p. 99,—there is the device of Gnats and Wasps in a cobweb, with the stanza,—