* The blackamoor and the pipe were, in the reign of James, thought suitable companions for one another. The king's dislike of tobacco is well known.

The meaning of this emblem is perhaps the same with one in Camerarius, which represents a bird of prey in the air, with a small bird in his talons, and in pursuit of some others, with this motto and distich:

Parta tenens, non parta sequar.

Multa licet fido sapiens in pectore condat,

Plura avido tamen usque appetit ingenio.

With his cockle hat and staff. Shakspeare. Or, as he is described in Green's Never too late, 1616:

With Hat of straw, like to a swain,

Shelter for the sun and rain,

With scallop-shell before.

The cockle-shell hat was one of the essential badges of the pilgrim's vocation; for the chief places of devotion being beyond sea, or on the coasts, they were accustomed to put cockle-shells upon their hats, to denote the intention or performance of their devotion. Warburton. See Hamlet, act IV.

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§ This, I suppose, is designed as a contradiction to a fancy of Aristotle's, that the shape, and several other circumstances, relative to a man's forehead, are expressive of his temper and inclination. Upon this supposition, Simeon, before mentioned, has invented an emblem, representing a human head, and a hand issuing out of a cloud, and pointing to it, with this motto, Frons hominem præfert.

This may perhaps express the folly of those who are fond of fomenting disputes and animosities; as that more elegant one of Simeon's, which represents a warrior stirring a fire with his sword, and losing one of his eyes by a spark that flies out of it, with this motto, Ignis gladio non fodiendus.