Featured on PDR in the collection Emblems of Love, in Four Languages: Dedicated to the Ladys (1683)

This excellently sub-titled love emblem book from the English poet Philip Ayres is a reworking of emblems originally found in the earlier Thronus Cupidinis. Each of the forty-four cupid-centred emblems are accompanied on the facing page by a quatrain, written out in four languages: Latin, English, Spanish and French. The Quatrains sport some wonderful titles, which at times seem to come straight out of the back catalogue of Mills and Boon - "The Voluntary Prisoner", "The Timerous Adventuror" - and some which offer just straight up advice - "Be Quick and Sure", "Little by Little", "Tis Constancy that Gains the Pryze". The engravings appearing alongside depict cupid in a whole host of different scenarios, including making a barrel, hobbling on one leg, being burnt at…