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Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers

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PLATE. SUBJECT. SOURCE. PAGE.

I. Dedication Plate Alciat’s Emb. Ed. 1661 1

Ia. Tableau of Human Life,—Cebes, B.C. 330. De Hooghe, 1670 13

Ib. Tableau of Human Life,—Cebes, B.C. 330. Old Print 68

II. Christ’s Adoption of the Human Soul Otho Vænius, Divini Amoris Emb. 1615 32

III. Creation Symeoni’s Ovid, Ed. 1559, p. 13 35

IV. Title-page,—Speculum Humanæ Salvationis. A MS. of the 1st Edition, 1440 44

V. Leaf 31,—Speculum Humana Salvationis. A MS. of the 1st Edition, 1440 44

VI. A page from the Biblia Pauperum. Noel Humphreys, p. 40, Pl. 2 46

VII. Historia S. Joan. per Figuras,—Corser Collection. Tracing from the Block-book 49

VIII. Historia S. Joan. per Figuras,—Corser Collection. Tracing from the Block-book 49

IX. Title-page of Seb. Brandt’s Fool-freighted Ship Locher’s Stultifera Navis, Ed. 1497 57

X. Title-page of Van der Veen’s Emblems. Adams Appel, Ed. 1642 132

XI. Fall of Satan Boissard’s Theat. Vit. Hum. 1596 Ed. 133

XII. Occasion seized David’s Occasio arr. &c. Ed. 1605 265

XIII. The Zodiac Brucioli, Della Sphera, Ed. 1543 353

XIV. Life as a Theatre Boissard’s Theat. Vit. Hum. Ed. 1596. 405

XV. Seven Ages of Life,—an early Block-Print, British Museum. Archæologia, vol. xxxv. 1853, p. 167. 407

XVI. Providence making Rich and making Poor. Coornhert, Ed. 1585 489

XVII. Time flying Otho Vænius, Emblemata, Ed. 1612. 491

Illustration from Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616

Hesius, 1636. Stans uno capit omnia puncto.

In Remembrance of Joseph Brooks Yates
In Remembrance of Joseph Brooks Yates

SHAKESPEARE

AND THE

EMBLEM-WRITERS OF HIS AGE.

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