Hallamshire.
P.S. Since the foregoing note was written, I have found the copy of Sir
E. Brydge's _Restituta_, from which I copied the extract of _Schola
Cordis_, in the _Christian Poet_.
"_Schola Cordis_: or the Heart of itself gone away from God,
brought back again to Him, and instructed by Him. In 47 Emblems.
1647. 12mo. pp. 196."
Inscribed, without a signature,
"To the Divine Majestie of the onely-begotten, eternall,
well-beloved Son of God and Saviour of the World, Christ Jesus,
the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords; the Maker, the Mender, the
Searcher, and the Teacher of
The Heart:
the Meanest of his most unworthy Servants
offers up this poore Account of his Thoughts,
humbly begging pardon for all that is
amisse in them, and a gracious
acceptance of these weak endeavours
for the Advancement of his
Honour in the Good of others."
The third edition, dated 1675, ascribes these emblems to the author of
_The Synagogue_, annexed to Herbert's _Poems_. This, according to Sir
John Hawkins, in his notes on Walton's _Angler_, was _Christopher
Harvie_: but Wood, in his _Athenae_, positively affirms that the author
of _The Synagogue_, in imitation of the divine Herbert, was _Thomas
Harvey_, M.A., and first Master of Kingston School in Herefordshire. To
_him_, therefore (adds Sir Egerton Brydges), we may presume to assign
it, until a stronger testimony shall dispossess him of a tenure, which
reflects honourable reputation on the copiousness of his fancy and the
piety of his mind.
_Fortune, Infortune, Fort une_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--I agree with MR.
BREEN that this inscription on the tomb of Margaret of Austria, in the
beautiful church of Brou, is "somewhat enigmatical," a literal
translation failing entirely to make sense of it. But perhaps MR. BREEN
may be willing to accept the interpretation offered by a writer in the
_Magasin Pittoresque_ for 1850, where, describing the monuments in the
church of Notre Dame de Brou (p. 22.), he says:
"Cette legende bizarre est assez difficile a expliquer, si l'on ne
regarde pas le mot _infortune_ comme un verbe. Avec cette
hypothese, la devise signifierait: 'La fortune a rendu une
personne tres-malheureuse?' Cette explication est d'autant plus
plausible que la vie de Marguerite d'Autriche fut affligee de bien
de revers. Destinee a regner sur la France, elle est repudiee par
Charles VIII., son fiance; elle epouse le fils du roi d'Aragon,
qui la laisse bientot veuve avec un fils qu'elle a aussi la
douleur de perdre peu apres; enfin, remariee a Philibert le Beau,
elle le voit mourir au printemps de son age."
There is little doubt, I think that the inscription was meant to typify
the misfortunes of Margaret; but the preceding solution is still, in a
grammatical point of view, unsatisfactory. If _fort_ could be transposed
to _fait_, the reading would be simple enough; but in these cases we are
bound to take the inscriptions as we find them, and the Rebus in stone
was the especial delight of the sculptors of the fifteenth century.