“Here’s a fine revolution, an we had the trick to see’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with ’em? mine ache to think on’t.”[150] And when Yorick’s skull is placed in his hand, how the Prince moralizes! (l. 177),— “Here hung those lips, that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.” And again (lines 191 and 200),— “To what base uses we may return. Horatio! . . . . . . . Imperial Cæsar, dead, and turn’d to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.” Of the skull Anulus says, “Here reason held her citadel;” and the expression has its parallel in Edward’s lament (3 _Henry VI._, act ii. sc. 1, l. 68, vol. v. p. 252),— “Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon;” when he adds (l. 74),— “Now my soul’s palace is become a prison;” to which the more modern description corresponds,— “The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.” A far nobler emblem could be made, and I believe has been made, though I cannot remember where, from those lines in _Richard II._ (act ii. sc. 1, l. 267, vol. iv. p. 145), which allude to the death’s head and the light of life within. Northumberland, Ross and Willoughby are discoursing respecting the sad state of the king’s affairs, when Ross remarks,— “We see the very wreck that we must suffer: And unavoided is the danger now, For suffering so the causes of our wreck.” And Northumberland replies in words of hope (l. 270),— “Not so; even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.” It is a noble comparison, and most suggestive,—but of a flight higher than the usual conceptions of the Emblem writers. Supplied to them they could easily enough work it out into device and picture, but possess scarcely power enough to give it origin.[151] “A snake lies hidden in the grass,” is no unfrequent proverb; and Paradin’s “DEVISES HEROIQVES” (41) set forth both the fact and the application. Latet anguis in herba. [Illustration: _Paradin, 1562._] _En cueillant les Fleurs, & les Fraizes des champs, ſe faut d’autant garder du dangereus Serpent, qu’il nous peut enuenimer, & faire mourir nos corps. Et auſsi en colligeant les belles autoritez, & graues ſentences des liures, faut euiter d’autant les mauuaiſes opinions, qu’elles nous peuuent peruertir, damner, & perdre nos ames._ From the same motto and device Whitney (p. 24) makes the application to flatterers,—