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Junius — published, nearly at the same time, and with the 

 privity of each other, their Booh of Emblems. They were 

 printed, a.d. 1564 and 1565, by Plantin of Antwerp, and 

 embellished with beautiful wood-cuts by Gerard de Jode. 

 Both were afterwards translated from the original Latin into 

 French. The Emblems of Sambucus, though very ingenious 

 and original, do not possess the precision and classical purity 

 of Ins great predecessor. Those of Adrian Junius are elegant, 

 terse, and epigrammatic, being each comprised in four verses. 

 At the conclusion of the whole, this author gives elucidations 

 of every Emblem, with instructions for the artist in designing 

 the corresponding figure. The following are specimens of his 

 style : — 



"' Content with a little — hoping for more. 



Of every full-blown rose the butterfly 

 Sips — but on wings of hope she passes by 

 Each still-clos'd lingering bud — perchance it may 

 Expand beneath to-morrow's sunny ray.' * 



Embl. 20. 



" ' Yon flower which venom to the Spider gives. 



From that the Bee its liquid sweets derives. 



Oft from one source friendship and discord flow ; 



Those Scriptures which to man God's mercies shew, 



Ofttimes, by sophistry perverted, yield 



To atheists and to murderers a shield.' + 



Embl. 83. 



" The following specimen is given from Sambucus : — 



*' ' When sluggish bile afflicts the jaundic'd wight, 

 Ere long the yellow tinge o'erspreads his sight. 

 Each varied hue no more his eyes behold ; 

 They turn, monotonous, all hues to gold. 



* " Exiguo contentus — potiora iperant. 



Libat rauca rosas Cicada biantes. 

 Clausas preeterit usui futuras 

 Prsesenti fruitur, suo beatus, 

 Et fatis melioribus parat se." 



+ " Fumato Arachnem flos idem succo replet, 

 Apique mella sufficit liquentia. 

 Concordia? litisque idem dictum est parens ; 

 Scriptura pravis sica — fit scutum bonis." 



