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Engraving represents Death putting an Extinguisher upon 

 a candle. Time coming behind, stays the hand of Death. 



• • • • ♦ STANZA III. 



Time loquitur. 



" Great Prince of Darkness, hold thy needless hand, 



Thy captive 's fast, aud cannot flee. 



What arm can rescue ? who can countermand 7 



What power can set thy prisoner free ? 



Or if they could, what closs, what foreign land 



Can hide that head that flees from thee? 



But if her harmless light 



Ofl"end thy sight. 



What need'st thou snatch at noon, what will be thine at night?' 



3. 

 Dtaih loquitur. 



" I have outstayed my patience ; my quick trade 



Grows dull and makes too slow return. 



This long-liv'd debt is due, and should been paid. 



When first her flame began to bum. 



But I have staid too long — I have delay *d 



To store my vast — my craving urn. 



My patent gives me power 



Each day, each hour, 



Tu strike the peasant's thatch and shake the princely tower." 



4. 



Time loq. — " Thou count'st too fast — thy patent gives no power 



Till time shall please to say — *Amenl 



Dealh — Canst thou appoint my shaft? Time — Or thou my hour? 



Deaths' Tis I bid— Z>o .' Time— Tis I hid—WTien f " 



From the imitations of Hugo we may also select the two 

 following little volumes in which very good verses are accom- 

 panied with exquisite engravings on copper • plate. 



1st. "Typus Mundi/' etc. Type of the World — being 

 a series of emblems in Latin, French and Dutch, wherein are 

 set forth the Calamities and Dangers of the World together 

 with the Contrasts (A.ntipathia) of Divine and Human Love, 

 published at Antwerp 16^7, 12mo."^ These poems are the 

 production of the Rhetoricians of the Jesuit College of that 

 City, and are dedicated to the great founder of their Order, 



* This 18 the date of the copy in possession of the Author, which is called 

 however edilio altera. 



