“Fare ye well: Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full Of the wars’ surfeits, to go rove with one That’s yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate. Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and My friends of noble touch, when I am forth, Bid me farewell, and smile.” So beautifully and so variously does the great dramatist carry out that one thought of making trial of men’s hearts and characters to learn the metal of which they are made. To finish our notices and illustrations of the Triumph Scene in _Pericles_, there remain to be considered the device and the motto of the sixth—the stranger knight—who “with such a graceful courtesy delivered,”— “A wither’d branch, that’s only green at top,[105] The motto, _In hac spe vivo_;” (Act ii. sc. 2, lines 43, 44;) and on which the remark is made by Simonides,— “A pretty moral: From the dejected state wherein he is, He hopes by you his fortune yet may flourish.” With these I have found nothing identical in any of the various books of Emblems which I have examined; indeed, I cannot say that I have met with anything similar. The sixth knight’s emblem is very simple, natural, and appropriate; and I am most of all disposed to regard it as invented by Shakespeare himself to complete a scene, the greater part of which had been accommodated from other writers. _Illicitum non ſperandum._ [Illustration: _Whitney, 1586._] “SPES _ſimul & Nemeſis noſtris altaribus adſunt, Scilicet vt ſperes non niſi quod liceat._” The unlawful thing not to be hoped for. “HERE NEMESIS, and Hope: our deedes doe rightlie trie, Which warnes vs, not to hope for that, which justice doth denie.” Yet the sixth device and motto need not remain without illustration. Hope is a theme which Emblematists could not possibly omit. Alciatus gives a series of four Emblems on this virtue,—Emblems 43, 44, 45, and 46; Sambucus, three, with the mottoes “Spes certa,” “In spe fortitudo,” and “Spes aulica;” and Whitney, three from Alciatus (pp. 53, 137, and 139); but none of these can be accepted as a proper illustration of the _In hac spe vivo_. Their inapplicability may be judged of from Alciat’s 46th Emblem, very closely followed by Whitney (p. 139).