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who had been canonized some few years before. The engravings 

 are by Philip de Mallery. In the sixth emblem a winged 

 Cupid is represented as playing with a Globe placed on a 

 table. A Cross inserted in the Globe prevents it from rolling. 

 The motto is "In cmce quies," After some good Latin lines 

 follows this Trench quatrain : — 



" Tu travailles en vain, voulant que cette boule 

 Sur le pave uny de la table ne roule. 

 Si tu veux, Cupidon, veoir ce globe rassis, 

 Que le poids de la Croix ordonne son pourpris." 



2nd. " Elammulse Amoris/' etc., Antwerp, 1629. Elames 

 of Love, etc., taken from the writings of St. Augustine. 

 In this work the engravings are from the hand of William 

 Collaert, whose family boasted a succession of eminent artists. 

 The Latin Poetry is written by Michael Hoyer, an Augustine 

 monk. 



To this class may be referred such Works as the following, 

 wherein both the Writers and the Engravers have exercised 

 much talent as well as ingenuity in showing forth the good 

 and evil qualities of the human heart : — 



1st. Schola Cordis J sive aversi a Deo Cordis ad eundem 

 reductio et instructio ; auctore Benedido Ilaefteno, etc, — 

 Antwerp, 1663, small 8w. (Engravings by Bolswert.) 



2nd. Ojoenhertigheherten. Al vint gJiy in dit Boechken- 

 deyn Wstrerts gent gentheden Reyn Leuct Ilet is waermaer- 

 'hoort dit woort Lackt daerom en vuiet en stroot. Anth. V. 

 Velde comp. Bruss. Bous C. B. P. 



In these Works the Heart is depicted in all its real and 

 imaginary phases. Here it is weighed in the scales against 

 a feather and kicks the beam — there squeezed flat in the 

 screw-press of pain, humility, and contrition. Here it is 

 imbedded in a heap of Gold^ — and there safe behind the 



* In the Church of St. Anthony, at Padua, is a series of fine Bas Keliefs, repre- 

 senting the Miracles performed by that Saint, one of which was as follows. A 

 wealthy citizen of Padua fell sick unto death. At this crisis his family sent for the 



saint 



