Framed in goldsmithes forge with cunning hand.”
—Spenser, Faerie Queene.
[21:9.] Learning.
“Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
Are pregnant to good pity.”
—Shakespeare, King Lear.
“What sorrow wast thou had’st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others’ woe.”
—Gray, Hymn to Adversity.
[21:30.] Acanthus. A plant now called bear’s-foot, or bear’s-breech; grows in southern Europe, Asia Minor, and India. Its leaf was a common form in embroidery and sculpture, and is well known from its use in the Corinthian capital.