Edmund Spenser,
The Shepheard's Calender (Crane…
(1898)
“ Page 16, note 4.—Thenot’s emblem means, in substance, that God, who is aged Himself, being without beginning of days, makes those whom He loves, to be aged, like Himself; and that it is a mark of His favour to be old. Cuddie’s emblem is,“No old man fears God’’—a sarcasm against Thenot. ”
