Similar proverbs and sayings abound both in Cervantes, who died in 1616, the year of Shakespeare’s death, and in the Spanish Emblem-books of an earlier date. I have very carefully examined the Emblems of Alciatus, translated into Spanish in 1549, but the nearest approach to the motto of the Prince of Macedon is, _Que mas puede la eloquençia que la fortaliza_ (p. 124),—“Eloquence rather than force prevails,”—which may be taken from Alciat’s 180th Emblem, _Eloquentia fortitudine præstantior_. Other Spanish Emblem-books of that day are the _Moral Emblems_ of Hernando de Soto, published at Madrid in 1599, and _Emblems Moralized_, of Don Sebastian Orozco, published in the year 1610, also at Madrid; but neither of these gives the words of the second knight’s device. Nor are they contained in the _Moral Triumphs_, as they are entitled, of Francisco Guzman, published in 1587, the year after Whitney’s work appeared. The _Moral Emblems_, too, of Juan de Horozco, are without them,—an octavo, published at Segovia in 1589. But, although there has been no discovery of this Spanish motto in a Spanish Emblem-book, the exact literal expression of it is found in a French work of extreme rarity—Corrozet’s “HECATOMGRAPHIE,” Paris, 1540. There, at Emblem 28, _Plus par doulceur que par force_,[94]—“More by gentleness than by force,”—is the saying which introduces the old fable of the Sun and the Wind, and of their contest with the travellers. Appended are a symbolical woodcut and a French stanza, Contre la froidure du vent, L’homme ſe tient clos & ſe ſerre, Mais le Soleil le plus ſouuent Luy faict mettre ſa rob[e/] à terre. Plus par doulceur que par force. [Illustration: _Corrozet, 1540._] which may be pretty accurately rendered by the English quatrain,— “Against the wind’s cold blasts Man draws his cloak around; But while sweet sunshine lasts, He leaves it on the ground.” This comment in verse follows Corrozet’s Emblem,—