Note 183 — Chapter VII · MISCELLANEOUS EMBLEMS; RECAPITULATION, AND CONCLUSION.

Were it only for the elegance and neat turn of the lines, we insert an epigram on a dog, by Joachim du Bellay, given in his Latin Poems, printed at Paris in 1569,—

“Latratu fures excepi;—mutus amantes;

Sic placui domino, sic placui dominæ.”

i.e.

“With barking the thieves I awaited,—in silence the lovers;

So pleased I the master,—so pleased I the mistress.”