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The self-same tint the hills and fields imbues, 



As when through saffron'd glass the scene he views. 



To his own level thus, the recreant knave 



Would fain bring down the virtuous and the brave ; 



Impute to them the crimes he meditates, 



And — Judas like— suppress the good he hates.' * 



"Adrian Junius was born, a.d. 1511, at Horn, and is said 

 to have died of a broken heart occasioned by the destruction 

 of his library and manuscripts at the taking of Harlem in 

 1573. He is notable for having been the first to put forward 

 (in his history, entitled Batavia,) the claim of Lawrence 

 Coster to the invention of Printing. 



" Johannes Sambucus was born at Tirnau, in Hungary, 

 a.d. 1531. The first edition of Ins Emblems was printed in 

 1564. In the second (of 1566) the author added fifty- six 

 new Emblems. During his travels (to which he devoted 

 twenty-two years) he made large* collections, and discovered 

 several manuscripts of ancient authors. He travelled alone, 

 excepting that he was accompanied by two faithful dogs, 

 named Bombo and Madel, whom he has celebrated in a beau- 

 tiful Emblem, No. 124, concluding thus — 



" ' Sensus inesse cur neges 

 His hestiis sequacious? ' 



" Following the order of time, we come now to a name of 

 still higher renown than any of the preceding — that of Theo- 



* " Quern regium vexat malum 

 Et Bilis occupavit externam cutim, 



Citrinus ut totus sies; 

 Oculos color suffundit idem et impedit, 



Ut quicquid aspicias, tibi 

 Videatur omne auri colorera habere, nee 



Propriis referre rem uotis, 

 Ut fallier queas, amicus ni monet. 



Idem accidit vitris, color 

 Cum tinxit, Ikpc simile nam habent in omnibus 



Quae cernis et cognoveris. 

 Nee secus iniquum qui gerunt animum, mate 



De aliis sinistre et judicant. 

 Quod sunt malorum couscii, prinii et duces. 



Sic arguunt sese, mali. 

 Ovem lupus rapiens romulcet caudulam." 



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