“Apollo flies and Daphne holds the chase, The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger.”— _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, act ii. sc. 1, l. 231. “We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learn’d, play’d, eat together, And wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.” _As You Like It_, act i. sc. 3, l. 69. “Approach the chamber and destroy your sight With a new Gorgon.” _Macbeth_, act ii. sc. 3, l. 67. “I’ll have no worse a name than Jove’s own page; And therefore look you call me Ganymede.” _As You Like It_, act i. sc. 3, l. 120. and,— “O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let’st fall From Dis’s waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack To make you garlands of; and my sweet friend To strew him o'er and o'er!” _Winter’s Tale_, act iv. sc. 4, l. 116. Yet from the Emblem writers as well he appears to have derived many of his mythological allusions and expressions; we may trace this generally, and with respect to some of the Heathen Divinities,—to several of the ancient Heroes and Heroines, we may note that they supply him with most beautiful personifications. Generally, as in _Troilus and Cressida_ (act ii. sc. 3, l. 240), the expression “bull-bearing Milo” finds its device in the _Emblemata_ of Lebeus Batillius, edition Francfort, 1596, where we are told that “Milo by long custom in carrying the calf could also carry it when it had grown to be a bull.” In _Romeo and Juliet_ (act ii. sc. 5, l. 8) the lines,— “Therefore do nimble-pinion’d doves draw love And therefore hath the wind swift Cupid wings.” We have the scene pictured in Corrozet’s _Hecatomgraphie_, Paris, 1540, leaf 70, with, however, a very grand profession of regard for the public good,— “Ce n’est pas cy Cupido ieune enfant Que vous voier au carre triumphant, Mais c’est amour lequel tiẽt en sa corde Tous les estatz en grãd paix & cõcorde.” In _Richard II._(act iii. sc. 2, l. 24) Shakespeare seems to have in view the act of Cadmus, when he sowed the serpent’s teeth,—