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In the background appear St. Francis giving his garment to 

 a beggar, accompanied by a sheep, which is undergoing the 

 process of shearing ; and St. Martin dividing his Cloak with 

 a sword for the purpose of presenting half to our Saviour, who 

 stands in the guise of a poor lame man. As a symbol of the 

 Church Militant, an Elephant is added, incited to battle by 

 the juice of the mulberry and the grape."**" 



In the year 1640 a little volume of Elegiac Verse was 

 published at Tournay, by John Vincart, entitled Sacrarum 

 Heroidum Ejnstolce, in which the manner of Ovid is avowedly 

 and very successfully imitated. These "Epistles of Heroines'* 

 (the first being from the Virgin Mary to the youthful Saviour) 

 are in a fine vein of poetry, and are accompanied by beautiful 

 minute engravings by Peter Euchelle, Of the three books 

 into which the Work is divided, the last is appropriated to 

 Saints belonging to the Order of Jesus. 



We have already made a cursory mention of Henry Engel- 

 grave. He held a distinguished rank among those of his 

 Order in Belgium for literary attainments, being placed 

 successively at the head of the Colleges at Oudenarde, 

 Cassel, Bruges, and Antwerp. His moral and theological 

 Discourses were given to the world in the shape of two large 

 Emblematical Works, bearing the titles mentioned in the Note 

 at foot.t In these volumes they are adapted to every Sun- 

 day and every Saints-day in the year, being in fact supposed 

 to be the substance of what was delivered by him on those 

 days. They are full of learning, which is often however 

 tinged with conceit. They abound in Puns and Anagrams. 

 Maria Magdalena is expressed by the words Grandia mala 

 mea ; Ursula by Laums ; and Bartholomceus by Sol beatorum. 



* Maccabees, cap. vi. 



■f Lux evauKelica sub velum sacrorum Emblematuin recondita, in anni Dominicas 

 aelecta historia et morali doctrina vane adumbrata. Antwerpia, 1648, 1651, and 

 1655. 



Lucis evangelicte sub velum sacrorum Emblematum reconditee para tertia, hoc eat 

 Cceleste Pantheou sive Coelum novum, in festa et gesta Sanctorum totius anni selecti 

 historii, et morali doctriua varie illustratum. Cologne and Antwerp, 1647, ale. 



