Footnote 121: The same author speaks also of the soft Zephyr moderating the sweet sounding song of the swan, and of sweet honour exciting the breasts of poets; and presents the swan as saying, “I fear not lightnings, for the branches of the laurel ward them off; so integrity despises the insults of fortune.”—_Emb._ 24 and 25. Footnote 122: Paradin’s words and his meaning differ; the Civic crown was bestowed, not on the citizen saved, but on the citizen who delivered him from danger. Footnote 123: Consequently there is an anachronism by Shakespeare in assigning the order of St. Michael to “valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,” who was slain in 1453. Footnote 124: The name of Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, does not occur in the list which Paradin gives of the twenty-four Knights Companions of the Golden Fleece. Footnote 125: Paradin’s text:—“_Ma Dame Bone de Sauoye mere de Ian Galeaz, Duc de Milan, se trouuant veufe feit faire vne Deuise en ses Testons d’vne Fenix au milieu d’vn feu auec ces paroles_: Sola facta, solum Deum sequor. _Voulant signifier que comme il n’y a au monde qu’vne Fenix, tout ainsi estant demeuree seulette, ne vouloit aymer selon le seul Dieu, pour viure eternellement._” Footnote 126: See _Penny Cyclopædia_, vol. xxi. p. 343: “We have no doubt that the three plays in their original form, which we now call the three Parts of _Henry VI._, were his,” _i. e._ Shakespeare's, “and they also belong to this epoch,” _i. e._ previous to 1591. Footnote 127: Or _Parvus Mundus_, ed. 1579, where the figure of Bacchus by Gerard de Jode has wings on the head, and a swift Pegasus by its side, just striking the earth for flight. Footnote 128: It is curious to observe how in the margin Whitney supports his theme by a reference to Ovid, and by quotations from Anacreon, John Chrysostom, Sambucus, and Propertius. Footnote 129: To the device of the Sirens, Camerarius, _Ex Aquatilibus_ (ed. 1604, leaf 64), affixes the motto, “MORTEM DABIT IPSA VOLVPTAS,”—_Pleasure itself will give death_,—and with several references to ancient authors adds the couplet,— “_Dulcisono mulcent Sirenes æthera cantu: Tu fuge, ne pereas, callida monstra maris._” [Sidenote: _i.e._] “With sweet sounding song the Sirens smooth the breeze: Flee, lest thou perish, the crafty monsters of the seas.” Footnote 130: Shakespeare’s “goddess blind” and his representation of blind Love have their exact correspondence in the motto of Otho Vænius, “Blynd fortune blyndeth loue;” which is preceded by Cicero’s declaration, “Non solùm ipsa fortuna cæca est: sed etiam plerumque cæcos efficit quos complexa est: adeò vt spernant amores veteres, ac indulgeant nouis,”—