[138]. The device by Gerard de Jode, in the edition of 1579, is a very fine representation of the scene here described.
[139]. May we not in one instance illustrate the thought from a poet of the last century?—
“Who, who would live, my Nana, just to breathe
This idle air, and indolently run,
Day after day, the still returning round
Of life’s mean offices, and sickly joys?
But in the service of mankind to be
A guardian god below; still to employ
The mind’s brave ardour in heroic aims,
Such as may raise us o’er the grovelling herd,