“I am the king, and thou a false-heart traitor. Call hither to the stake my two brave bears, That with the very shaking of their chains They may astonish these fell-lurking curs: Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me. _Enter the_ EARLS OF WARWICK _and_ SALISBURY. _Clif._ Are these thy bears? we’ll bait thy bears to death, And manacle the bear-ward in their chains, If thou darest bring them to the baiting place. _Rich._ Oft have I seen a hot o’erweening cur Run back and bite, because he was withheld; Who, being suffer’d with the bear’s fell paw, Hath clapp’d his tail between his legs and cried: And such a piece of service will you do, If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick.” The Dialogue continues until just afterwards Warwick makes this taunting remark to Clifford (l. 196),— “_War._ You were best to go to bed and dream again, To keep thee from the tempest of the field. _Clif._ I am resolved to bear a greater storm Than any thou canst conjure up to-day; And that I’ll write upon thy burgonet, Might I but know thee by thy household badge. _War._ Now, by my father’s badge, old Nevil’s crest, The rampant bear chain’d to the ragged staff, This day I’ll wear aloft my burgonet, As on a mountain top the cedar shows That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm, Even to affright thee with the view thereof. _Clif._ And from thy burgonet I’ll rend thy bear And tread it underfoot with all contempt, Despite the bear-ward that protects the bear.” A closer correspondence between a picture and a description of it cannot be desired; Shakespeare’s lines and Whitney’s frontispiece exactly coincide; “Like coats in heraldry Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.” By Euclid’s axiom, “magnitudes which coincide are equal;” and though the reasonings in geometry and those in heraldry are by no means of forces identical, it may be a just conclusion; therefore, the coincidences and parallelisms of Shakespeare, with respect to Heraldic Emblems, have their original lines and sources in such writers as Giovio, Paradin, and Whitney. It was not he who set up the ancient fortifications, but he has drawn circumvallations around them, and his towers nod over against theirs, though with no hostile rivalry. [Illustration: _Horapollo, ed. 1551._] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SECTION III. _EMBLEMS FOR MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS._