_Sold._i> I’ll be so bold to take what they have left. The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword; For I have loaden me with many spoils Using no other weapon but his name.” And in the same play (act ii. sc. 3, l. 11, vol. v. p. 32), when the Countess of Auvergne is visited by the dreaded Englishman, the announcement is made,— “_Mess._ Madam, According as your ladyship desired, By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come. _Count._ And he is welcome. What! is this the man? _Mess._ Madam, it is. _Count._ Is this the scourge of France? Is this the Talbot, so much fear’d abroad That with his name the mothers still their babes?” [Illustration: _Whitney, 1586._] Five or six instances may be found in which Shakespeare introduces the word “lottery;” and, historically, the word is deserving of notice,—for it was in his boyhood that the first public lottery was set on foot in England; and judging from the nature of the prizes, he appears to have made allusion to them. There were 40,000 chances,—according to Bohn’s _Standard Library Cyclopædia_, vol. iii. p. 279,—sold at ten shillings each: “The prizes consisted of articles of plate, and the profit was employed for the repair of certain harbours.” The drawing took place at the west door of St. Paul’s Cathedral; it began “23rd January, 1569, and continued incessantly drawing, _day and night_, till the 6th of May following.”[115] How such an event should find its record in a Book of Emblems may at first be accounted strange; but in addition to her other mottoes, Queen Elizabeth had, on this occasion of the lottery, chosen a special motto, which Whitney (p. 61) attaches to the device,— _Silentium_,—“Silence,”— which, after six stanzas, he closes with the lines,— “Th’ Ægyptians wise, and other nations farre, Vnto this ende, HARPOCRATES deuis’de, Whose finger, still did seeme his mouthe to barre, To bid them speake, no more than that suffis’de, Which signe thoughe oulde, wee may not yet detest, But marke it well, if wee will liue in reste.” [Illustration: decoration] _Written to the like effecte, vppon Video, & taceo. Her Maieſties poëſie, at the great Lotterie in_ LONDON, _begon_ M.D.LXVIII. _and ended_ M.D.LXIX. I See, and houlde my peace: a Princelie Poëſie righte, For euerie faulte, ſhoulde not provoke, a Prince, or man of mighte. For if that IOVE ſhoulde ſhoote, ſo ofte as men offende, The Poëttes ſaie, his thunderboltes ſhoulde ſoone bee at an ende. Then happie wee that haue, a Princeſſe ſo inclin’de. That when as iuſtice drawes hir ſworde, hath mercie in her minde, And to declare the ſame, howe prone ſhee is to ſaue: Her Maieſtie did make her choice, this Poëſie for to haue.