Feind, if they doo from him runn.”
[173]. For a fine Emblem to illustrate this passage, see “Horatii Emblemata,” by Otho Vænius, pp. 58, 59, edit. Antwerp, 4to, 1612; also pp. 70 and 71, to give artistic force to the idea of the “just man firm to his purpose.”
[174]. Shakespeare illustrated by parallelisms from the Fathers of the Church might, I doubt not, be rendered very interesting and instructive by a writer of competent learning and enthusiasm, not to name it furore, in behalf of his subject.
[175]. Opera, vol. i. p. 649 B, Francofurti, 1620.
[176]. Reference might be made also to Whitney’s fine tale, Concerning Envy and Avarice, which immediately follows the Description of Envy.
[177]. The original lines are,—
“Innvmeris agitur Respublica nostra procellis,
Et spes venturæ sola salutis adest:
Non secus ac nauis medio circum æquore, venti,
Quam rapiunt; falsis tamq. fatiscit aquis.