The ideas of the Emblematists respecting the goddess “OCCASION” are also embodied by Shakespeare two or three times. Thus on receiving the evil tidings of his mother’s death and of the dauphin’s invasion, King John (act iv. sc. 2, l. 125, vol. iv, p. 65) exclaims,— “Withhold thy speed, dreadful Occasion! O make a league with me, till I have pleased My discontented peers!” In _2 Henry IV._ (act iv. sc. 1, l. 70, vol. iv. p. 431) the Archbishop of York also says,— “We see which way the stream of time doth run, And are enforced from our most quiet there By the rough torrent of occasion.” Most beautiful too, and forcible are the stanzas on _Occasion_, or _Opportunity_ from _Lucrece_ (lines 869–882, vol. ix. p. 515),— “Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring; Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers; The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing; What virtue breeds iniquity devours: We have no good that we can say is ours But ill-annexed Opportunity Or kills his life or else his quality. O Opportunity, thy guilt is great! ’Tis thou that executes! the traitor’s treason; Thou set’st the wolf where he the lamb may get; Whoever plots the sin, thou point’st the season; ’Tis thou that spurn’st at right, at law, at reason, And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him, Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him.”[131] DVM TEMPVS LABITVR, OCCASIONĒ FRONTE CAPILLATĀ REMORĀTVR. 7. A. Nunc opus eſt alios Terrarum inuifere tractus, Et Iuuenes alios. Moniti vos ergo valete. B. Quis ſubitæ calor iſte fugæ? C. Quin ſi fuga tandem Certa tibi est; pennas ſaltem Dea salua fugaces Siſtat adhuc. D. Cur tot nequidquam verba per auras Perditis? hinc alio, mora nulla recedo; valete. E. Aufugiat? ſparsos potius pro fronte capillos Arripite. D. Ai! ſine, ſponte ſequar; veſtrisque morabor Ædibus, ad ius Fam. donec perduxero metam. F. Laudo animos, nam vi cogi DEA gaudet amicâ. [Illustration: _From David’s “Occasio arrepta neglecta &c” 1605_] Very appropriately in illustration of these and other passages in Shakespeare may we refer to John David’s work, “OCCASIO ARREPTA NEGLECTA” (4to, Antwerp, 1605),—_Opportunity seized or neglected_. It contains twelve curiously beautiful plates by Theodore Galle, showing the advantages of seizing the Occasion, the disadvantages of neglecting it. We choose an example, it is Schema 7, cap. 1, p. 117. (See Plate XII.) “While Time is passing onward men keep Occasion back by seizing the hair on her forehead.” Various speakers are introduced,—