The lame leads the blind; Mutua Si Fuerint Studia, Hic Servatur et Illa; Emblemata Saecularia, 1596. The lame leads the blind: a lame man is sitting on the shoulders of a blind man, who walks with a stick. The lame shows him the way. At the left behind a dead tree around which grape vines grow. For this representation of mutual friendship, the Bry has merged two emblems: 'Mutuum Auxilium' or "mutual helpfulness", represented by the blind person who leads the lame, and 'Amicitia Etiam Post Mortem Durans', or "friendship until after death", In the form of the tree whining around grape drinks.

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