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"Paide for a planke to carve the arms of the Companie iijs." "Paide to the Carver for carvinge the Arms of the Companie xxiijs. iiijd." All three panels are in excellent preservation, and the design of a harp, being a rebus of the Master's name, is a quaint relic of old customs. Some other oak furniture, in the Hall of this ancient Company, will be noticed in the following chapter. Mr.
Avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante Trita solo; iuvat integros accedere fontes Atque haurire, iuvatque novos decerpere flores Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam Unde prius milli velarint tempora Musae: Primum quod magnis doceo de rebus, et artis Religionum animum nodis exsolvere pergo, Deinde quod obscura de re tam lucida pango Carmina, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore.
I shall conclude this topic with a rebus, which has been lately hewn out in freestone, and erected over two of the portals of Blenheim House, being the figure of a monstrous lion tearing to pieces a little cock.
The scholastic intelligence, succulently appreciative, blind, hopelessly blind to the fact that every great work of art is a strenuous, an almost despairing effort to express and convey, treats the whole thing as some foolish riddle "explains it to the children." As if every picture was a rebus and every poem a charade! "Little children," he says, "this teaches you" and out comes the platitude!
Although it is both useful and necessary that the writings of some of the Fathers and the decrees of some of the Councils should be preserved as witnesses and records, nevertheless, I think, est modus in rebus, and it is no pity that the books of many of the Fathers and Councils have, by God's grace, been lost.
Et tamen te suspicor isdem rebus quibus me ipsum interdum gravius commoveri, quarum consolatio et maior est et in aliud tempus differenda.
"Cedit amor rebus; res age tutus eris," is a very wise saying, and Meadows, by his own observation and instinct, sought the best antidote for love. But the Latins had another true saying, that "nobody is wise at all hours." After his day of toil and success he used to be guilty of a sad inconsistency.
M. Violette recalled his endless years in the office, and all the trouble he had taken to guess a famous rebus that was celebrated for never having been solved. Was Amedee to spend his youth deciphering enigmas? M. Violette hoped for a more independent career for his son, if it were possible. Commerce, for example! Yes! there was a future in commerce.
"Did your piece of paper with the poem look like a rebus, after you had cut it in two, Mamma?" "Perhaps so, Rolf. I should think it might look like one. Why do you ask?" "Look here! is this it?" replied the boy, holding up his strip of paper. "Yes, yes, it certainly is it," cried the mother in great excitement. "I thought it had been lost long ago.
She offered De Marsay some letters, in which the young man saw, with surprise, strange figures, similar to those of a rebus, traced in blood, and illustrating phrases full of passion. "But," he cried, marveling at these hieroglyphics created by the alertness of jealousy, "you are in the power of an infernal genius?" "Infernal," she repeated. "But how, then, were you able to get out?"
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