The sentiment is the same as that of the proverb in the motto which Lebeus-Batillius prefixes to his 18th Emblem (edition 1596), “QVIBVS REBVS CONFIDIMVS, IIS MAXIME EVERTIMVS,”—_To whatever things we trust, by them chiefly are we overthrown_. The subject is Milo caught in the cleft of the tree which he had riven by his immense strength; he is held fast, and devoured by wolves. The application of Beza’s Emblem is made by Hamlet (act iii. sc. 4, l. 205, vol. viii. p. 117), during the long interview with his mother, just after he had said,— “No, in despite of sense and secrecy, Unpeg the basket on the house’s top,[152] Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep, And break your own neck down.” Then speaking of his plot and of the necessity which marshals him to knavery, he adds,— “Let it work; For ’tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar: and ’t shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon: O, ’tis most sweet When in one line two crafts directly meet.” [Illustration: _Horapollo, ed. 1551._] ----- Footnote 108: “Swallows have built In Cleopatra’s sails their nests: the augurers Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly And dare not speak their knowledge.” _Ant. & Cleop._, act 4, sc. 12, l. 3. Footnote 109: “Nec, si miserum fortuna Sinonem Finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget.” “Talibus insidiis, perjurique arte Sinonis, Credita res: captique dolis, lachrymisque coactis, Quos neque Tydides, nec Larissæus Achilles, Non anni domuêre decem, non mille carinæ.” “fatisque Deûm defensus iniquis, Inclusos utero Danaos et pinea furtim Laxat claustra Sinon.” Footnote 110: The text of Sambucus is dedicated to his father, Peter Sambukius. “DVM _rigidos artus elephas, dum membra quiete Subleuat, assuetis nititur arboribus: Quas vbi venator didicit, succidit ab imo, Paulatim vt recubans belua mole ruat. Tam leuiter capitur duri qui in prœlia Martis Arma, viros, turrim, tergore vectat opes. Nusquam tuta fides, nimium ne crede quieti, Sæpius & tutis decipiere locis. Hippomenes pomis Schœneïda vicit amatam, Sic Peliam natis Colchis acerba necat. Sic nos decipiunt dedimus quibus omnia nestra: Saltem conantur deficiente fide._” Footnote 111: