“In our neighbour Countrey of _England_ they are born, but inverted upside down and diversified. _Torquato Tasso_ in his _Rinaldo_ maketh mention of a Knight who had a Rock placed in the Waves, with the Worde _Rompe ch’il percote_. And others hath the Seas waves with a Syren rising out of them, the word _Bella Maria_, which is the name of some Courtezan. _Antonio Perenotto, Cardinal Gravella_, had for an _Impresa_ the sea, a Ship on it, the word _Durate_ out of the first of the Æneades, _Durate et vosmet rebus servate secundis_. _Tomaso de Marini_, Duca di terra nova, had for his _Impresa_ the Waves with a sun over them, the word, _Nunquam siccabitur æstu_. The Prince of Orange used for his _Impresa_ the _Waves_ with an _Halcyon_ in the midst of them, the word, _Mediis tranquillus in undis_, which is rather an _Embleme_ than _Impresa_, because the figure is in the word.” Footnote 78: See device at a later part of our volume. Footnote 79: See Symeon’s _Deuises Heroiques & Morales_, edition, 4to, Lyons, 1561, p. 246, where the motto and device occur, followed by the explanation, “_Ceux qui ont escrit de la Physiognomie, & mesme Aristote, disent parmy d’autres choses que le front de l’homme est celuy, par lequell’ on peut facilement cognoistre la qualité de ses mœurs, & la complexion de sa nature_,” &c. Footnote 80: It may be named as a curious fact that a copy of Alciat’s _Emblemes en Latin et en Francois Vers pour Vers_, 16mo, Paris, 1561, contains the autograph of the Prolocutor against Mary Queen of Scots, W. PYKERYNGE, 1561, which would be about _five_ years before Mary’s son was born, for whom she wrought a bed of state. The edition of Paradin, a copy of which bears Geffrey Whitney’s autograph, was printed at Antwerp in 1562; and one at least of his Emblems to the motto, _Video et taceo_, was written as early as 1568. Footnote 81: In some of the more elaborate of Plantin’s devices, the action of “the omnific word” seems pictured, though in very humble degree,— “In his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God’s eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turn’d Round through the vast profundity obscure.”—_Par. Lost_, bk. vii. Footnote 82: Derived from Joachim du Bellay (who died in 1560 at the age of thirty-seven), the excellence of whose poetry entitled him to be named the Ovid of France. There is good evidence to show that Du Bellay was well acquainted with the Emblematists, who in his time were rising into fame. Footnote 83: