“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good; the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever fair.” Beautlé compaigne de bonté. [Illustration: _Corrozet, 1540._] Comme la pierre precieuſe Eſt à l’anneau d’or bien conioncte, Ainſi la beaulté gracieuſe Doibt eſtr[e/] auecq la bonté ioincte. La pierre bonne A l’homme donne Ioyeuseté, Quand la personne A voir ſ’adonne Sa grand clarté, Mais ſa beaulté Et dignité Augmente quand l’or l’enuironne Que ie compar[e/] à la bonté Pour ſa treſgrande vtilité Qui à telle vertu conſonne. * Form[e/] elegante Beaulté patente De personnage Du tout augmente Se rend luyſante Quand il est ſage Non au viſage, Mais au courage Reluyct la bonté excellente Et alors c’eſt vng chef d’ouurage Quand on eſt tresbeau de corſage Et qu’au cueur eſt vertu latente. The French verse which immediately follows the Emblem well describes it,— “As, for the precious stone The ring of gold is coin’d; So, beauty in its grace Should be to goodness join’d.” The dramas we have liberty to select from furnish several instances of the same thought. First, from the _Two Gentlemen of Verona_ (act iv. sc. 2, l. 38, vol. i. p. 135), in that exquisitely beautiful little song which answers the question, “Who is Silvia?”— “Who is Silvia? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness. Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness, And, being help’d, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring.” But a closer parallelism to Corrozet’s Emblem of beauty joined to goodness occurs in _Henry VIII._ (act ii. sc. 3, lines 60 and 75, vol. vi. pp. 45, 46); it is in the soliloquy or _aside_ speech of the Lord Chamberlain, who had been saying to Anne Bullen,—