And that clever imitation of the “~Stultifera Nauis~,” _the Fool-freighted Ship_, of the fifteenth century, namely, the “CENTIFOLIUM STULTORUM,” edition 1707, or _Hundred-leaved Book of Fools_ of the eighteenth, proves how the Satirical may symbolize and fraternize with the Emblematical. The title of the book alone is sufficient to show what a vehicle for lashing men’s faults the device with its stanzas and comment may be made; it is, “A hundred-leaved book of Fools, in Quarto; or an hundred exquisite Fools newly warmed up, in Folio,—in an Alapatrit-Pasty for the show-dish; with a hundred fine copper engravings, for honest pleasure and useful pastime, intended as well for frolicsome as for melancholy minds; enriched moreover with a delicate sauce of many Natural Histories, gay Fables, short Discourses, and edifying Moral Lessons.” Among the one hundred _distinguished_ characters, we might select, were it only in self-condemnation, the Glass and Porcelain dupe, the Antiquity and Coin-hunting dupe, and especially the Book-collecting dupe. These are among the best of the devices, and the stanzas, and the expositions. Dupes of every kind, however, may find their reproof in the six simple German lines,—p. 171, ~“Wer Narren offt viel predigen will, Ben ihnen nicht wird schaffen viel: Dann all’s was man am besten redt, Der Narr zum ärgsten falsch versteht, Ein Narr, ein Narr, bleibt ungelehrt, Wann man ihn hundert Jahr schon lehrt.”~ meaning pretty nearly in our vernacular English, “Whoso to fools will much and oft be preaching, By them not much will make by all his teaching. For though we of our very best be speaking, Falsely the fool the very worst is seeking. Therefore the fool, a fool untaught, remains, Though five score years we give him all our pains.”