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also are from the same Blocks as they had employed. The 

 Book is inscribed to the Earl of Leycester, lately made Gover- 

 nor of the Low Countries, and many of the Emblems are 

 dedicated to Cheshire Gentlemen. 



"The following is translated by Whitney from Alciato 

 (though unacknowledged), and may be compared with the 

 versions already given in the present memoirs. 



" ' RECIPROCAL SERVICES. 



" ' See here the Stork provides with tender care 

 And bringeth meat unto her hatched broode. 

 The like again for her they do prepare 

 When she is oulde, and cannot get her food; 

 Which teacheth bpths, the Parent and the Childe — 

 Theire dutips here, which eche to other owe. 

 First Fathers must be provident and milde 

 Unto their Fruicte, till they of age doe growe ; 

 And Children must with duty still proceede 

 To reverence them and helpe them if they neede.' 



Whitney, p. 73. 



" ' FIDES NON APPARENTITJM.' 

 ( " Engraving of Fishermen hauling a Net into a boat. I 

 " ' The fissherman doth caste his nettes in sea, 

 In hope at lengthe, an happie hale to have, 

 And is content long time to pause and staie 



Thoughe nothing elles he see besides the wave ; 

 Yet only trust for thinges unseene dothe serve, 

 Which feedes him ofte till he doth almoste sterve. 



If fisshermen have then suche constant hope 



For hidden thinges and such as doe decaie, 

 Let Christians then the eies of faith houlde ope, 



And thinke not longe for that which lastes for aie ; 

 And on God's worde, theire hope to anchor faste, 

 Whereof eache iote shall be fulfil'de at laste.' 



Whitney, p 71. 



" Soon after the appearance of Geoffrey Whitney's work, 

 were published the Sacra Emblemata of Andrew Willet, a 

 learned and eloquent divine, born at Ely, in 1562. This 

 book was printed by John Legate, the University printer of 



