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

by Henry Green

And fought so long, ’till that his thighs with darts

Were almost like a sharp-quill’d porcupine.”

From the same source, Giovio’s and Symeoni’s “Sententiose Imprese,” Lyons, 1561, p. 115, we also derive the cognizance,—

DEL CAPITANO GIROLAMO

MATTEI ROMANO.

Giovio and Symeoni, 1561.

Diuora il ſtruzzo con ingorda furia

Il ferro, & lo ſmaltiſce poi pian piano,