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as large as a man's head. This is accompanied by the follow- 

 ing lines, supposed to be spoken by the man who appears 

 behind the counter : — 



" If — as you tell me — ' money is your friend* — 

 From loss that money you should well defend. 

 Couie then to me, Good Sir, and you will find 

 Great store of well-made purses to your mind — 

 Purses of every colour, shape, and size. 

 If you don't purchase, you may feast your eyes. 

 Beasts of all sorts their beauteous furs have lent, 

 To serve at once for use and ornament. 

 So come and buy — and with a plenteous hoard 

 Of gold and silver may your purse be stored."* 



Although the merit of the Latin verses is considerable, the 

 vanity of their author is still greater. In a peroratio which 

 closes the descriptions of the trades, and which is a parody 

 upon the celebrated self-laudation of Ovid, he announces him- 

 self as the first who had accomplished a work of this kind, and 

 prophecies that his fame would survive all the arts and the 

 envy of this world, and even the world itself. As for the 

 engraver, he has presented to posterity a portrait of himself 

 seated before a table in the exercise of his profession. — • 

 Vide c. 2. 



Although not strictly coming within the class of Emble- 

 matic works by reason of its size, the following well deserves 

 to be mentioned, in connexion with Books of Trades, 

 IH Bologna V Arti pervia, or the Cries of Bologna, printed 

 at Rome, fol., 1660. The work consists of highly spirited 

 engravings on copper by Giuseppe M- Mittelli, after the de- 



* " CRUMENARIUS. 



" Imperiosa jugo quemcunque pecunia subdit 



Et custos auri vis bonus esse tui, 

 Hue properes, gressuque petas fora nostra citato 



Hie oculos etiam quod tibi pascat, erit. 

 Ecce tibi vario Lociilos e pelle ferarum 



Distinctos habitu multicolore damus. 

 Millibus e mullis nunc, emptor amice, crumenis 



Elege marsupium quod tibi cuuque placet. 

 Mille quod impletura fulvis tamen opto monetis 



Splendeat, et fidiis sit comes usque tibi." 



K 2. 



