Black and white emblem, from page 242 of the first emblem book, called Emblemata Libre. Top caption says: "Untimely death." Emblem featuers dolphins on top of sepulchre. Bottom caption states: "That handsome lad, famed throughout all the city, who attracted and tormented tender-hearted girls with his beauty, has perished before his time, mourned by no one more than you, Arestius, to whom he was joined in chaste affection. Therefore you build him a tomb as a memorial of such great love and assail the heavens with cries of grief. Beloved, are you gone away without me? Shall we never be together again? Will you never again spend happy leisure hours with me in study? But the earth will cover you, a Gorgon's head and dolphins shall provide dolful symbols of your fate."
