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

Transcriber’s Note:
The frequent appearance of text in blackletter font is rendered here with this font.
Full-width images have been moved to paragraph breaks. The pagination used in the list of Plates is approximate, but are linked here directly to each plate.
Footnotes have been resequenced to be unique across the text, and were moved to the end of the text.
The cover image has been fabricated and is placed in the public domain.
LANGTON.Sc.MANcr Portraits from Original Plates,— Bocchius by Bonasone , A.D. 1555; the others by Theodore de Bry , A.D. 1597.

SHAKESPEARE
AND
THE EMBLEM WRITERS
AN EXPOSITION OF THEIR
SIMILARITIES OF THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION.