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Sa volunte a sa beautte accorde, 



Tant que les deux ne quierent que Concorde. 



Elle fera les hommes furieux 



Estre courtoys simples et gracieux. 



Elles fera en diverses provinces 



Mettre la paix entre courroucez princes, 



Comme on a veu & void on bien souvant 



Quand pour tel cas ou la meet en avant.' 



Hecatomgraphie , 1. iv. & v. 



("Representation of a lawyer receiving a brief, together with a fee, from a client — 

 another applicant, unprovided with money, wringing his hands, in the back ground. 

 " ' Patriciens out les mains pleines d' yeulx, 

 Et voient cler quand ou leur faict largesse. 

 Si les voulez faire croire en voz dieux 

 Monstrez de quoy uusez point de promesse 

 Hz en lairroient a voir dieu de la messe 

 Pour enpoigner, quand ou leur dit, tenez. 

 Mais si vers eulx desgarny vous venez, 

 Ilz ne peuvent comprendre vostre cas ; 

 Du tort le droict feront si leur donnez. 

 Argent contant fait plaider advocatz." 



Theatre des Sons Engins, Paris, 1539 or 1540. Embl. 66. 



"Five years after the death of Alciato, a most beautiful 

 Book of Emblems was presented to the world by another emi- 

 nent Italian scholar, Achille Bocchi, commonly called Philerote. 

 He was a native of Bologna, and sprung from a noble family 

 of that city. Being equally distinguished for his scholarship 

 and his knowledge of public affairs, he served several Princes, 

 and filled important offices in the court of Borne. In 1546, 

 he institued at Bologna an Academy, called after its founder 

 Academia Bocchiana, and also (from the device of Mercury 

 and Minerva, which it assumed) Hermathena. Bocchi's work, 

 which was published in 1555, is entitled ' Symbolicamm Ques- 

 tionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat, libri quinque.' 

 The copperplates, comparatively of a large size, were engraved 

 by the celebrated artist Guilio Bonasone, after designs partly 

 by him self and partly by Bocchi, aided by Parmigiano and 

 Prospero Fontana, many ideas being taken from Michael 

 Angelo and Albert Durer. On the publication of the second 



