Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers

Note 9 — Chapter I · EMBLEMS, AND THEIR VARIETIES, WITH SOME EARLY EXAMPLES.

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“Quidam . . . . scriptos eos (scilicet locos) memoriæque diligentissime mandatos, inpromptu habuerent, ut quoties esset occasio, extemporales eorum dictiones, his, velut Emblematibus exornarentur.”—Quint. Lib. 2, cap. 4.

Return to CHAPTER I. EMBLEMS, AND THEIR VARIETIES, WITH SOME EARLY EXAMPLES.Return to CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS EMBLEMS; RECAPITULATION, AND CONCLUSION. (continued 3)