Note 172 — Chapter VI · CLASSIFICATION OF THE CORRESPONDENCIES AND PARALLELISMS OF SHAKESPEARE WITH EMBLEM WRITERS. (continued 4)

Soon after Whitney’s time this emblem was repeated in that very odd and curious volume; “Stamm Buch, Darinnen Christliche Tugenden Beyspiel Einhundert ausserlesener Emblemata, mit schönen Kupffer-stücke geziener:” Franckfurt-am-Mayn, Anno MDCXIX. 8vo, pp. 447. At p. 290, Emb. 65, with the words “Ubi es?” there is the figure of Adam hiding behind a tree, and among descriptive stanzas in seven or eight languages, are some intended to be specimens of the language at that day spoken and written in Britain:—

“Adam did breake God’s commandement,

In Paradise against his dissent,

Therefore he hyde him vnder a tree

Because his Lorde, him should not see.

But (alas) to God is all thing euident.

Than he faunde him in a moment

And will alwayes such wicked men

Feind, if they doo from him runn.”