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costume at all, the figure of a Lady whose sole merit appeared 

 to be the patronage which she afforded to the fine arts. 



Very different was the style in which, nearly half a century 

 later, Crispin de Passe published his Illustrations of "the 

 Metamorphoses." The engravings (one hundred and thirty- 

 four in number) are beautifully executed upon copper by this 

 distinguished artist. The figures are much larger than those 

 given in Gabriel Symeon's work, and have subjoined to them 

 metrical explanations in Latin and German."^ 



We have now taken a cursory review of Emblematic writers 

 who flourished during the sixteenth century. In this review 

 have been comprehended not only those whose works come 

 strictly within the definition laid down by the first adven- 

 turers in this sort of composition, but several who, as the 

 century advanced, gave a more extended range to their fancy, 

 scattering difi'usively the flowers of their poesy, sometimes 

 without adopting for them even the name of Emblems, 



We now proceed to offer a few brief notices of those who 

 followed in the seventeenth century, and from them shall in 

 the first instance introduce to the reader some further examples 

 of that class to whom allusion has last been made. 



And here it may be premised that, in our review of the 

 Latin poets of this latter period, we are not to look for the 

 same classical purity and terseness which characterized their 

 predecessors. That intense study which had been bestowed 

 upon the newly discovered writings of the anticnts was become 

 much abated ; and the vernacular tongues, which a few illus- 

 trious examples had heretofore failed to bring into general 

 use among authors, being now reduced into normal shape, 

 became better fitted to serve as the vehicles of taste and litera- 

 ture. This enlargement of their use moreover was promoted 



* Cologue and Arubcim, A.D. 1607, small 4to. Both of those prodactions 

 tioned in tho text, must however yield the palm to the exquisite engravings ac 

 panving tho Abbo Baiiier's translation of thr Mctamorpbuscs, as reprinted at Paris 

 in the year 1767 by Le Mire and Uasan. 



