THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 211 of which there is the better hope, as he is in the meanwhile under the tuition of two superlative men, Dominus Georgius Buchananus, the facile princeps in various literary respects, and Dominus Petrus Junius (or Jonck, as it is elsewhere called, meaning
- Young,') also a man of distinguished merits.
The Eoyal Icon, which stands on the outside, and precedes the Dedication, is naturally the first of all : fit ornament to the vestibule of the whole work — a half ridiculous half pathetic protecting genius, of whom this (overleaf) is the exact figure. Some Four Score other personages follow ; of per- sonages four score, but of Icons only Thirty-eight; Beza, who clearly had a proper wish to secure true portraits, not having at his command any further supply ; so that in forty- three cases there is a mere frame of a wood-cut, with nothing but the name of the individual who should have filled it, given. A certain French translator of the Book, who made his appearance next year, Simon Goulart, a French friend, fellow preacher, and distinguished co- presbyter of Beza's, of whom there will be much farther mention soon, seems to have been better p 2
