“About the border, in a curious fret, Emblems, impressas, hieroglyphics set.” There is, however, no occasion to pursue any further this branch of our theme, except it may be by a short continuation or extension of our Period of time, to show how Milton’s greater Epic most curiously corresponds with the title-page of a Dutch Emblem-book, which appeared in 1642, several years before _Paradise Lost_ was written. (See Plate X.) The book is, _Jan Vander Veens Zinne-beelden, oft Adams Appel_,—“John Vander Veen’s Emblems, or Adam’s Apple,”—presenting some Dutch doggerel lines, of which this English doggerel contains the meaning,— “When wounded Adam lay from the sin and the fall, Out of the accursed wound flowed corruption and gall; Hence is all wickedness and evil bred, As here in print ye see the Devil fashioned.” And again,— “Out of Adam’s Apple springs Misery, Sin, and deadly things.” Singularly like to Milton’s Introduction (bk. i. lines 1–4),— “Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.” _Plate 10_ IAN VANDER VEENS ZINNE-BEELDEN, OFT ADAMS APPEL. Verciert met ſeer aerdige Conſt-Plaeten Meſgaders Syne oude ende nieuwe ongemeene Bruyde-lofs ende Zege-zangen. t’AMSTERDAM BY EVERHARD CLOPPENBURGH, Boeck vercooper op’t Water 1642 [Illustration: _Title of “Adam’s Appel” Vander Veen 1642_] _Plate 11_ _Lapsus diaboli._ CAP. III. _LAPSVS SATANÆ._ _Cœlestes Genios perfecta luce creatos Peccatum horrendo perdidit exitio. Sub Phlegethonte Satan Cocyti mergitur undis: Pœna eadem reliquis addita dœmonibus._ [Illustration: _Fall of Satan from Boissard’s “Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ,” 1596_] With equal singularity appears in Boissard’s _Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ_,—“Theatre of Human Life,”—edition Metz, 1596, p. 19, the coincidence with Milton’s Fall of the rebel Angels. We have here pictured and described the Fall of Satan (see Plate XI.) almost as in modern days Turner depicted it, and as Milton has narrated the terrible overthrow (_Paradise Lost_, bk. vi.), when they were pursued