There is an Emblem by Whitney (p. 131), which, though in some respects similar to one at p. 178 of the “PEGMA” by Costalius, 1555, entitled “Iron,” “on the misery of the human lot,” is to a very great degree his own, and which makes it appear in a stronger light than usual, that a close resemblance exists between his ideas and even expressions and those of Shakespeare. The subject is “Writings remain,” and the device the overthrow of stately buildings, while books continue unharmed. _Scripta manent._ _To Sir_ ARTHVRE MANWARINGE _Knight._ [Illustration: _Whitney_, 1586.] “If mightie TROIE, with gates of steele, and brasse, Bee worne awaie, with tracte of stealinge time: If CARTHAGE, raste: if THEBES be growne with grasse. If BABEL stoope: that to the cloudes did clime: If ATHENS, and NVMANTIA suffered spoile: If ÆGYPT spires, be euened with the soile. Then, what maye laste, which time dothe not impeache, Since that wee see, theise monumentes are gone: Nothinge at all, but time doth ouer reache, It eates the steele, and weares the marble stone: But writinges laste, thoughe yt doe what it can, And are preseru’d, euen since the worlde began. And so they shall, while that they same dothe laste, Which haue declar’d, and shall to future age: What thinges before three thousande yeares haue paste, What martiall knightes, haue march’d vppon this stage: Whose actes, in bookes if writers did not saue, Their fame had ceaste, and gone with them to graue. Of SAMSONS strengthe, of worthie IOSVAS might. Of DAVIDS actes, of ALEXANDERS force. Of CÆESAR greate; and SCIPIO noble knight, Howe shoulde we speake, but bookes thereof discourse: Then fauour them, that learne within their youthe: But loue them beste, that learne, and write the truthe.” _La vie de Memoire_, and _Vine ut viuas_,—“Live that you may live,”—emblematically set forth by pen, and book, and obelisk, and ruined towers, in Boissard’s _Emblems_ by Messin (1588, pp. 40, 41), give the same sentiment, and in the Latin by a few brief lines,— “_Non omnis vivit, vitâ qui spirat in istâ: Sed qui post fati funera vivit adhuc: Et cui posteritas famæ præconia servat Æternum is, calamo vindice, nomen habet._” Thus having the main idea taken up in the last of the four French stanzas,— “Mais qui de ses vertus la plume a pour garand: Celuy centre le temps invincible se rend: Car elle vainc du temps & l’effort, & l’injure.” In various instances, only with greater strength and beauty, Shakespeare gives utterance to the same sequences of thought. When, in _Love’s Labour’s Lost_ (act i. sc. 1, l. 1, vol. ii. p. 97), fashioning his court to be,—