“The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.... Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.” And in contrasting the cares of royalty with the sound sleep of the slave, Henry V. (act iv. sc. 1, l. 256, vol iv. p. 564) declares that the slave,— “Never sees horrid night, the child of hell; But like a lacquey, from the rise to set, Sweats in the eye of Phœbus, and all night Sleeps in Elysium; next day, after dawn, Doth rise, and help Hyperion to his horse; And follow so the ever running year With profitable labour to his grave;” but the subject is never entered upon in its moral and social aspects, unless the evils which are ascribed by the Duke of Burgundy (_Henry V._ act v. sc. 2, l. 48, vol. iv. p. 596) to war, are also to be attributed to the negligence which war creates,— “The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness; and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.” Another instance we may give of that Emblem spirit, which often occurs in Shakespeare, and at the same time we may supply an example of Freitag’s method of illustrating a subject, and of appending to it a scriptural quotation. (See _Mythologia Ethica_, Antwerp, 1579, p. 29.) The instance is from _King Lear_, act ii. sc. 4, l. 61, vol. viii. p. 317, and the subject, _Contraria industriæ ac desidiæ præmia_—“The opposite rewards of industry and slothfulness.” When Lear had arrived at the Earl of Gloster’s castle, Kent inquires,— “How chance the king comes with so small a train? _Fool._ An thou hadst been set i’ the stocks for that question, thou hadst well deserv’d it. _Gent._ Why, fool? _Fool._ We’ll set thee to school to an ant to teach thee there’s no labouring in the winter.” That school we have presented to us in Freitag’s engraving (see woodcut on next page), and in the stanzas of Whitney, p. 159. There are the ne’er-do-well grasshopper and the sage schoolmaster of an ant, propounding, we may suppose, the wise saying, _Dum ætatis ver agitur: consule brumæ_,—“While the spring of life is passing, consult for winter,”—and the poet moralizes thus: “IN winter coulde, when tree, and bushe, was bare, And frost had nip’d the rootes of tender grasse: The antes, with ioye did feede vpon their fare, Which they had stor’de, while sommers season was: To whome, for foode the grashopper did crie, And said she staru’d, if they did helpe denie.