Of cattel, and brouzed, and sorely hurt.”
The whole Eclogue, or Fable, is rounded off by the curious Italian proverbs, to which Spenser gives the name of Emblems,—
Thenots Embleme.
“Iddio, perche é vecchio,
Fa suoi al suo essempio.”
Cuddies Embleme.
“Niuno vecchio
Spaventa Iddio.”
i.e., “God, although he is very aged, makes his friends copies of himself,” makes them aged too; but the biting satire is added. “No old man is ever terrified by Jove.”