Note 93 — Chapter V · SIX DIRECT REFERENCES IN THE PERICLES TO BOOKS OF EMBLEMS, SOME OF THEIR DEVICES DESCRIBED, AND OF THEIR MOTTOES QUOTED.

Thus to be rendered into symmetrical lines of English,—

“The Sun, the eye of heaven, with beams the world illumes,

And the pale Moon afar scatters black night.

So virtue, the soul’s sun, our pining senses illumes,

And genial faith dispels the darkness of the mind.

If virtue to the mind,—so leading the way to virtue shines

Faith in her purity: nothing can be brighter than this.

The golden splendour of virtue and faith, O Philip,

Throwing out beamings, shows to thee paths to the sky.

This in truth is the Sun of life, and the one Light-bringer,

This in truth the Moon which by shining drives away night.

While in thy mind these lights thou seest on high,—of the world

The darkness and terrors untrembling thou dost behold.

Sun and Moon and the Light-bringer flash light to their orbs,

And the while on thee shine, too, virtue and faith.”