[130]. Shakespeare’s “goddess blind” and his representation of blind Love have their exact correspondence in the motto of Otho Vænius, “Blynd fortune blyndeth loue;” which is preceded by Cicero’s declaration, “Non solùm ipsa fortuna cæca est: sed etiam plerumque cæcos efficit quos complexa est: adeò vt spernant amores veteres, ac indulgeant nouis,”—

“Sometyme blynd fortune can make loue bee also blynd,

And with her on her globe to turne & wheel about,

When cold preuailes to put light loues faint feruor out,

But ferwent loyall loue may no such fortune fynde.”

[131]. Well shown in Whitney’s device to the motto, Veritas inuicta,—“Unconquered truth” (p. 166),—where the Spirits of Evil are sitting in “shady cell” to catch the souls of men, while the Great Enemy is striving—

“with all his maine and mighte

To hide the truthe, and dimme the lawe deuine.”

[132].

“Lvnarem noctu, vt speculum, canis inspicit orbem: