“This earth shall have a feeling and these stones Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion’s arms.” And the device which emblematizes the fact occurs in Symeoni’s abbreviation of the _Metamorphoses_ into the form of Italian Epigrams (edition Lyons, 1559, device 41, p. 52). And lastly, in _3 Henry VI._ (act v. sc. 1, l. 34), from a few lines of dialogue between Warwick and King Edward, we read,— “_War._ ’Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother. _K. Edw._ Why then ’tis mine, if but by Warwick’s gift. _War._ Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight; And weakling, Warwick takes his gift again.” But a better comment cannot be than is found in Giovio’s “DIALOGVE,” edition Lyons, 1561, p. 129, with Atlas carrying the Globe of the Heavens, and with the motto, “SVSTINET NEC FATISCIT,”—_He bears nor grows weary_. The story of Jupiter and Io is presented in the Emblem-books by Symeoni, 1561, and by the Plantinian edition of Ovid’s _Metamorphoses_, Antwerp, 1591, p. 35. From the latter, were it needed, we could easily have added a pictorial illustration to the _Taming of the Shrew_ (Induction, sc. 2, l. 52),— “We'll show thee Io as she was a maid And how she was beguiled and surprised, As lively painted as the deed was done.” The _Antony and Cleopatra_ (act ii. sc. 7, l. 101, vol. ix. p. 60), in one part, presents the banquet, or, rather, the drinking bout, between Cæsar, Antony, Pompey, and Lepidus, “the third part of the world.” Enobarbus addresses Antony,— “_Eno._ [_To Antony._] Ha, my brave emperor! Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals, And celebrate our drink? _Pom._ Let’s ha’t, good soldier. _Ant._ Come, let’s all take hands, Till that the conquering wine hath steep’d our sense In soft and delicate Lethe. _Eno._ All take hands. Make battery to our ears with the loud music: The while I’ll place you: then the boy shall sing; The holding every man shall bear as loud As his strong sides can volley. [_Music plays_, ENOBARBUS _places them hand in hand._ THE SONG. “Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! In thy fats our cares be drown’d, With thy grapes our hairs be crown’d: Cup us, till the world go round, Cup us, till the world go round!” Now, the figures in Alciat, in Whitney, in the _Microcosmos_,[127] and especially in Boissard’s “THEATRVM VITÆ HUMANÆ,” ed. Metz, 1596, p. 213, of a certainty suggest the epithets “plumpy Bacchus” “with pink eyne,” a very chieftain of “Egyptian Bacchanals.” This last depicts the “monarch of the vine” approaching to mellowness. [Illustration: _Boissard, 1596._]