Note 86 — Chapter IV · THE KNOWLEDGE OF EMBLEM-BOOKS IN BRITAIN, AND GENERAL INDICATIONS THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH THEM.
Reading edition
The illustration we immediately choose is from Sym. cxxxvii. p. cccxiiii. of Achilles Bocchius, edition Bologna, 1555, with the motto—
“Ars rhetor, triplex movet, ivvat, docet,
Sed Præpotens est veritas divinitvs.
Sic monstra vitior, domat prvdentia.”
Rhetoric’s art threefold, it moves, delights, instructs,
But powerful above all is truth of heaven inspired.
So the monsters of our vices doth wisdom’s self subdue.