38 



Wine, like a skilful Wrestler, may be said 

 To cause our legs to totter, with our head.' * 



Boissardi, Embl. 40. 



" We close our account of the Emblematists of the sixteenth 

 century with another eminent man. Joachim Camerarius 

 (2nd) was son of the celebrated scholar of the same name, to 

 whom the world is indebted for so many valuable editions and 

 versions of the Greek and Roman classics. Adopting Medi- 

 cine for his profession, he became ardently devoted to the 

 study of Natural History, especially Botany. Amongst seve- 

 ral works published by him, in illustration of Natural History, 

 was one entitled ' Si/mbolorum et Emblematum Ceniuria Ires.' 

 The first hundred, derived from Plants, made its appearance 

 in 1590 ; the second, from Quadrupeds, in 1593 ; and the 

 third, from Birds and Insects, in 1597. The plates are from 

 copper, very small, but beautifully distinct ; and the first part 

 or century exhibits the earliest application of this sort of en- 

 graving to Botany. A fourth part, upon Reptiles and Fishes, 

 was given to the world (but with inferior engravings) after the 

 author's death by his son Louis Joachim. t To each of these 

 four hundred Emblems, are allotted a Latin Hexameter and 

 and a Pentameter verse, followed by an exposition of the real 

 and supposed qualities of the Plants or Animals depicted, with 

 moral deductions arising therefrom. 



" ' si vivet — VIVAM.' 



( " Representation of an old Ruin, covered with Ivy.) 

 " ' Emblem of Friendship — see yon Ivyed Wall 



Propp'd by the Plant — else tott'ring to its fall. 



The ancient Wall, in turn the Plant sustains; 



Hence each, new strength — tho' singly feeble — gains.' • 



END OF THE FIRST PAE.T. 



' Ebrins insano est similis, Vinumque Cicuta 

 Est homini. Hoc .Etas formaque culta perit. 

 Luctator vafer est, et decipit arte dolosa 

 Nam primum capiat debilitatque pedes." 



Muri Hederam, hsec illos — alterno munere firmant. 

 His typus expressus mutuee amicitise." 



Camerarii Synth. Sf Embl. Cent, i., 54. 



