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70 PETER A. ROLLANDAmong Soviet scholars, A. A. Morozov and L. A. Sofronova haveremarked on the significance of the emblem for Polacki's verse generally,while A. S. Eleonskaja and V. P. Grebenjuk have noted the influence ofemblem literature on Polacki's thought and in his panegyrical anthologyRifinologion. 4No one has traced the influence of emblem books andiconography on Połacki during his formative student years and before hisremoval from Polack to Moscow. This little-investigated period of Polacki'screative life is important; what the young student learned in Kiev and Vilniusor Polack, he used to great effect in Moscow. 5This study will examine several Polish verse texts found in the miscellanyPandecta, seu Collecteana albo Zebranie rozmaitych scriptów y notatie,a silva rerum that contains Simiaon's earliest known verse and his noteson various subjects. The poems are entitled "Pieszczota dziatek" (Mollycoddlingchildren; fol. 43/60 v ), "Roskosz" (Luxury; fol. 133 V ), "Ws'cieklemibiegasz końmi, Kupidynie..." (Like wild horses you run, ОCupid... ; fol. 119 і ), and "Czasu odmiana у różność" (The Passage of timeand the difference; fol. 118 V ). Scholars who have studied Polacki's earlyverse—and, indeed, these very poems—have remarked on their heavilyallegorical nature, on their vivid and, at times, puzzling imagery, and ontheir often strange intermingling of pagan and Christian themes. 6 As I shall4Anthony R. Hippisley, "Simeon Polotsky as a Representative of the Baroque in RussianLiterature" (Ph.D. diss., Oxford University, 1966); idem, "The Emblem in Simeon Polotsky,"The Slavic and East European Journal 15, no. 2 (Summer 1971): 167-83; Jan Baptist Bedaux,"Emblem and Emblematic Poem in the work of Simeon Polockij," in B. J. Amsenga et al, eds.,Miscellanea Selecta: To Honour the Memory of Jan M. Meijer (Amsterdam, 1983), pp. 53-73;and Peter A. Rolland, "Aspects of Simeon Polockij's Early Verse (1648-1663)" (Ph.D. diss.,Indiana University, 1978), pp. 55-68, discuss the influence of the emblem and inscriptions inPolacki's early verse. See also Morozov and Sofronova, "Èmblematika," p. 32; A. S. Eleonskaja,"Rabota Simeona Polockogo nad podgotovkoj к pećati knig Obed duSevnyj i VeíerjaduSevnaja," in A. N. Robinson, ed., Simeon Polockij і ego knigoizdatel'skaja dejatel'nost'(Russkaja staropefatnaja literatura XVI-XVIII v.), vol. 3 (Moscow, 1982), pp. 152-202; andV. P. Grebenjuk, "Rifmologion Simeona Polockogo (Istorija sozdanija, struktura, idei)," inibid., vol. 3, pp. 259-308.5The late M. I. PraSkovii ("Paezija Simiaona Połackaha: Ranni peryiad 1648-1664" [Diss.,Minsk University, 1964], and "Simiaon Połacki," in V. V. Barysenka et al., eds., Historyiabelaruskaj dokastryinickaj litaratury и dvux tamax, vol. 1, Z staraïitnyx íasoü da капса XVIIIst. [Minsk, 1968], pp. 354-82) and Łużny (Pisarze kręgu, pp. 109-28) do not take up thisquestion at all. Rolland, "Aspects of Simeon Polockij's Early Verse," chap. 2, provides a preliminarydiscussion of the problem; the present study is an enlarged and reworked version of aportion of that chapter.6Łużny, Pisarze kręgu, pp. 117-22. In preparing the texts, which I copied in situ fromCGADA, fond 381, MS. 1800, and compared with witnesses in GIM, Sinod. Sobr., MS. 731,1followed Konrad Górski, "Zasady transliteracji tekstów XVI i XVII wieku," in Z badań nadliteraturą staropolską: Program i postulaty (Wroclaw, 1952), pp. 79-87.1 have separated thetexts into strophes as indicated by lines drawn in the manuscript, presumably by their author.V. K. Bylinin and L. U. Zvonareva give the texts of "Pieszczota dziatek," "Roskosz," "Czasu