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

2. PROVERBS, SAYINGS, AND MOTTOES.

3. WORKS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO.

4. MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES.

A.

• A, O. L. Linacre’s Galen, Paris, 1538, p. [105];
• O. L. Nef des folz, f. xvi., Paris, 1499, p. [188];
• O. L. Alciat’s Emblems, 2, Paris, 1534, p. [377].
• 1. A. Bruck, Emb. mor. et bellica, 1615, p. [95];
  • Emb. politica, 1618, pp. [34], [97].
• Æsop, Fables, Latin and German, 1473; Italian, 1479; Greek, 1480; French and English, 1484; Spanish, 1489; thirty other editions before 1500, p. [51].
• Aesticampianus, Tabula Cebetis, 1507, pp. [12].
• A. Ganda, Spiegel van vrouwen, 1606, p. [98];
  • Emblemata amatoria nova, 1613, p. [98].
• Alberti, Ecatonphyla, 1491; French, 1536, p. [55].
• Alciat, Andrew, Emblematum libellus, 1522, p. [69];
  • Emb. liber, 1531, its size compared with ed. 1621, p. [69];
  • in the interval above 130 editions; French, 1536; German, 1542; Spanish and Italian, 1549; English (?), 1551, p. [70];
  • Commentators, [70];
  • arms or device, [211].
• Aleander, Explicatio antiq. fabulæ, &c., 1611, pp. [95], [97].
• Altorfinæ, Emb. anniversaria, 1597, p. [94].
• Amman, Biblical figures, Heraldry, &c., 1564, p. [85].
• Ammirato, Il rota overo dell’ imprese, 1562, pp. [79], [81].
• Aneau, French Alciat, 1549, p. [70];
  • Picta poesis, and L’imagination poetique, 1552, p. [76].
• Angeli, Astrolabium planum, 1488, p. [42].
• Anjou, La joyeuse et mag. entrée, 1582, p. [87].
• Apocalypse, a block-book, [48], [49].
• Arias Montanus, Hum. salutis monum., 1572, pp. [88], [89].
• Ars memorandi, a block-book, about 1410, p. [45].
• Astronomical MS., about 1330, Chetham Library, [41].
• Austria, Don John of, On Sambucus, 1572, p. [86].
• 2. Aliamque moratur, [124];
• Altera securitas, [124];
• Amicitia etiam post mortem durans, and Amicitiæ immortali, [307];
• Amor certus in re incerta cernitur, [179];
• Amoris jusjurandum pœnam non habet, [328];
• Amor vincit omnia, [7];
• Anchora speme, [185];
• Armat spina rosas, mella tegunt apes, [333];
• Ars naturam adjuvans, [255];
• Ars rhetor triplex movet, &c., [141];
• Au navire agité semble le jour de l’homme, [437];
• Auri sacra fames quid non? [480];
• Auxilio divino, [413];
• Ave gratiâ plena, dominus tecum, [46];
• A vous entier: j’en suis contente, [45].
• 3. Æschylus, on Symbol, p. [2];
  • Swan, [213].
• Æsop’s Fables, low estimate of by Shakespeare, [302];
  • Antwerp, ed. 1593, p. [313];
  • Jackdaw and fine feathers, [312].
• Aikin’s General Biography: Champier, [63];
  • Joachim, [67];
  • Pierius, [80].
• Alciat, characterised, [69];
  • quoted, Janus, [139]–40;
  • Hope, [182];
  • Æneas and Anchises, [191];
  • Medea and Progne, [191];
  • Brutus 201;
  • Zisca, [206];
  • Swan, [213];
  • Insignia of poets, [218];
  • Phrixus, [229];
  • Sirens, [253];
  • Mercury and Fortune, [255];
  • Occasion, [259];
  • Prometheus bound, [266];
  • Dog and moon, [270];
  • Actæon, [275];
  • Arion, [280];
  • Phaeton, [285];
  • Icarus, [288];
  • Niobe, [292];
  • Narcissus, [295];
  • Pegasus, [299];
  • Several fables, [303];
  • Friendship after death, [307];
  • Bees, [360];
  • Cupid and death, [401];
  • Envy, [431];
  • Ship-sailing, [435];
  • Student entangled in love, [440].
• Amboise, 1620, named by Menestrier, [79].
• Ames’ Antiquities of printing names an English version of Alciat, [70].
• Anacreon, the swan, [214].
• Aneau, or Anulus quoted: Progne, [193];
  • Brasidas, [194];
  • Swan, [213];
  • Prometheus, [267];
  • Actæon, [276];
  • Narcissus, [295];
  • Daphne, [296];
  • Skull, [337];
  • Chaos, [449].
• Animals, artistic books of, 1560–1586, p. [85].
• Archæologia, lottery, [208];
  • Ages of man, [406].
• Aristotle, the head an index of the mind, [129];
  • Halcyon’s nest, [391].
• Arundel MS., ages of man, [406].
• Athenæ (Cantab. ii. p. 258), Spenser, [87].
• Augustine, S., Confessions, [426].
• Aulus Gellius, Androcles and lion, [281].
• Ayscough, [461].
• 4. Achilles, shield of, [20].
• Actæon, referred to by Alciat, [275];
  • Shakespeare, Aneau, Sambucus, [276];
  • Palæphatus, Ovid, Whitney, [278];
  • and Shakespeare, [279].
• Adam hiding, by Shakespeare, Whitney, [416];
  • Montenay and Stamm Buch, [416].
• Adam’s apple, reference to Milton, [Plate X.], [132].
• Adamant, indestructibility: Le Bey de Batilly and Pliny, [347];
  • Shakespeare, [348].
• Æneas, his shield, [20];
  • and Anchises, by Alciat and Whitney, [191];
  • Shakespeare, [193].
• Albret, Madame, Queen of Navarre, [88].
• Aldi, 1490–1563, device, [16];
  • Horapollo, 1505, p. [64].
• Alphonso V., ancestor of Don Juan Manuel, 1575, p. [90].
• America and West Indies ignored, [350], [352].
• Androcles and the lion, [281].
• Antefixæ, of Etruscan art, [19].
• Ants and grasshopper, by Freitag, [148];
  • and Whitney, [148].
• Ape and miser’s gold, by Cullum, [128];
  • Paradin, Whitney, and Symeoni, [486];
  • Shakespeare, [488].
• Apollo and the Christian muse, Le Bey de Batilly, [379];
  • Shakespeare, [380].
• Appendices, I. [497], II. [515], III. [531–542].
• Architecture and statuary excluded, [11].
• Argonauts and Jason, [229];
  • Shakespeare, [230].
• Arion, by Alciat, [280];
  • Whitney, &c., [281];
  • Shakespeare and Microcosm, [282], [283].
• Arms on Queen Mary’s bed, [123], [124].
• Arran, earl of, 1549; patron of Aneau, [108], [121].
• Arrow wreathed on a tomb, Paradin, [183].
• Art, Shakespeare’s exquisite judgment of, [108]–117.
• Ascencian printing press, 1511, p. [63].
• Ass and wolf, [53], [54].
• Astronomer and magnet, Sambucus, [335];
  • Whitney, [335];
  • Shakespeare, [336].
• Athenian coin, [8].
• Atkinson’s gem, Picta Poesis, [76].
• Atlas, by Giovio and Shakespeare, [245].
• Augustus, his emblem, [15].

B.

• 1. Badius, Stultif. navic. fatuarum mul., 1500, 1502, p. [61];
  • Nef des folles, &c., 1501, p. [62];
  • Account of, [63].
• Balsat, Nef des princes, &c., 1502, p. [63].
• Barclay, Shyp of folys of the worlde, 1509, 1570, pp. [57], [65], [91], [119];
  • Mirrour of good maners, 1570, p. [58].
• Bargagli, [79];
  • Dell’ Imprese, 1589, p. [87].
• Bedford Missal, MS., 1425, p. [44].
• Beham’s Bible figures, 1536, p. [72].
• Bellerophon, of Lust tot wysheyd, 1614, p. [98].
• Belloni, Discorso, 1601, p. [92].
• Bernardetti, Giornata prima, &c., 1592, pp. [79], [92].
• Beza, Icones, accedunt emb., 1581, p. [88].
• Bible figures, 1503, p. [63];
  • 1536, p. [72].
• Biblia pauperum, 1410–1420, p. [45];
  • [Plate VI.], [46];
  • Description of, [46], [47].
• Biblische historien, 1551, p. [73].
• Billyng, Five wounds of Christ, MS., 1400, ed. 1814, p. [41].
• Block-books: Biblia pauperum, [Plate VI.], [45]–47;
  • Book of Canticles and the Apocalypse of S. John, [48];
  • Ars memorandi, [45], [48];
  • Historia S. Joan. Evangelist., sold for 415l., not for 45l., Plates [VII]. and [VIII]., [49];
  • Print, [Plate XV]., [407].
• Bocchius, Symbol. Quest., libri v. 1555, p. [77].
• Boissard, Theatrum vitæ humanæ, 1596, p. [31];
  • Shawspiel Menschliches lebens, 1597, p. [97];
  • Fall of Satan, Plate XI., [133];
  • Human life a theatre, Plate XIV., [405].
• Boissart, Mascarades recueillies, [93], [94].
• Bol, Emb. evang. ad XII. signa, 1585, p. [88].
• Boner, German fables, about 1400, ed. 1461, p. [50].
• Borcht, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 1591, p. [94].
• Boria, Emprese morales, 1581, p. [90].
• Brandt, Narren schyff, 1494; Stult. navis, before 1500, Plate IX., ed. 1497, p. [57];
  • Nef des fols, [57];
  • Flemish version, 1504, Two English, 1509, p. [57];
  • Hortulus animæ, MS., ed. 1498, p. [58].
• Broecmer, Embl. moralia et œconomica, 1609, pp. [95], [97].
• Brosamer, Biblische historien, 1551, p. [73].
• Bynneman, Van der Noot’s theatre, 1569, p. [91].
• 2. Beaulté compaigne de bonté, [418];
• Bella Maria, [125];
• Bona terra, mala gens, [139];
• Breue gioia, [152];
• Brevis et damnosa voluptas, [152].
• 3. Bacon’s Adv. of learning, [1].
• Bateman’s ed. Five wounds of Christ, [40].
• Bellay’s Cupid and death, 1569, p. [400];
  • Dog, [482];
  • Emblem writing, [136].
• Berjeau’s Biblia pauperum, ed. 1859, pp. [45], [48].
• Beza, quoted, Phrixus, [230];
  • Dog and moon, [270];
  • Engineer and petard, [344].
• Biographie Universelle, Boner, [50];
  • Zainer, [55];
  • Badius, [63];
  • Shoeufflein, [67];
  • Manuel, [90];
  • Dinet, [94];
  • Van Visscher, [98].
• Blanchet’s Apologues orientaux, [17].
• Blandford, Catalogue of emblem books, [35], [55].
• Blomfield’s Norfolk, Lottery, [208].
• Bohn’s Holbein, ed. 1858, Lottery, [207];
  • Edward VI., [121].
• Boissard quoted, Satan’s fall, [132], [133];
  • Bacchus, [247];
  • Bear and whelp and Cupid, [349];
  • Human life, [405].
  • See Messin, [Emblemes].
• Brucioli’s Trattato della sphera, 1543, Zodiac, [Plate XIII]., [353].
• Brunet’s Manuel du libraire, [39];
  • Speculum humanæ salvationis, [43];
  • Dyalogus Creaturarum, [51];
  • Ecatonphyla, [55];
  • Todtentanz, [56];
  • Figures du vieil Test., [63];
  • Turnierbuch, [68];
  • Figures of the Bible, [73];
  • Giovio, &c., [78];
  • Spelen van sinne, [81];
  • Hoffer, [81]; &c.
• Bryan’s Dict. of Engravers, Zainer, [56];
  • Boissart, [94];
  • Van Veen, [96].
• Brydges, Egerton, Res literariæ, [78], [100].
• 4. Bacchus, by Boissard, and Microcosme, [247];
  • Alciat, Whitney, [248];
  • Shakespeare, [249].
• Badges, traced by Giovio, [14];
  • Of ancient usage, [14];
  • Augustus, [15];
  • Titus, [16].
• Ban-dog, Sir T. More, Spenser, [481];
  • Sambucus, [482];
  • Whitney, [483];
  • Shakespeare, [484].
• Barrel with holes, Paradin, Whitney, [332].
• Bear and ragged staff, Whitney, [236], [239];
  • traced to the Earls of Warwick, [237], [239];
  • Shakespeare, [239].
• Bear and cub, Boissard, [349];
  • Tronus Cupidinis, [348];
  • Shakespeare, [350].
• Beauchamp, Thos. and Richd., their monuments, [237].
• Beccafumi’s designs for seven ages, [407].
• Bed of state, with emblems by Mary Stuart, [123], [126];
  • at Hinckley, [126].
• Bees, types of good government, Horapollo, [358];
  • Alciat, [360];
  • King bee, Plato, Xenophon, Virgil, [359];
  • Types of love for native land, Whitney, [361];
  • Commonwealth, Shakespeare, [362]-364.
• Bellerophon and Chimæra, Alciat and Shakespeare, [299], [300].
• Bird caught by an oyster, [130];
  • In a cage, and hawk, [124].
• Black Ethiope reaching at the sun, [123], [160]–162;
  • No exact resemblance found, Reusner, [160], [161].
• Blount’s crest, an armed foot in the sun, [166];
  • Families of Blounts, [160].
• Bodily signs emblematical, [17].
• Bodleian library, its block-books, [49].
• Bona of Savoy, the Phœnix her device, [234].
• Brasidas and shield, Aneau and Whitney, [194], [195].
• Bridgewater gallery, Diana bathing, [111].
• Britain, emblem literature known in, [119]–137.
• Brutus, death of, Alciat and Whitney, [201], [202];
  • Shakespeare, [203], [204];
  • Characteristics of Brutus and Cassius, Shakespeare, [204], [205].
• Bullogne, Godfrey of, his impresa, [123].
• Butterfly and candle, Paradin, [151];
  • Corrozet, Camerarius, Vænius, [152];
  • Symeoni, [153];
  • Shakespeare, [153];
  • Boissard, [152].

C.

• C, O. L., Alciat, 38 Ant., 1581, p. [497].
• 1. Caburacci, Trattato ... di fare le imprese, 1580, pp. [79], [86].
• Callia, Emb. sacra, e libris Mosis excerpta, 1591, p. [94].
• Camerarius, Symb. et emblematum, &c., 1590, p. [89].
• Camilli, Imprese—co i discorsi, &c., 1586, p. [87].
• Canticles, book of, a block-book, [48].
• Capaccio, Delle imprese trattato, 1592, pp. [34], [85].
• Caputi, La pompa, 1599, p. [92].
• Cartari, Imagini dei Dei degli antichi, 1556, p. [79].
• Cebes, Tablet of, B.C. 390, p. [12];
  • Editions various, 1497–1507, pp. [13], [68];
  • De Hooghe’s and another’s delineation, Plates I. and I. b, [13], [68].
• Champier, La nef des dames vertueuses, 1503, p. [63].
• Chartier, Les blasons de vertu par vertu, 1574, pp. [87], [88].
• Chiocci, Delle imprese, 1601, pp. [79], [92].
• Cimolotti, Il superbi, 1587, p. [87].
• Clamorinus, Thurnier-buch, 1590, p. [90].
• Clemens of Alexandria, Stromata, [21].
• Cœlius, Emblemata sacra, 1589, p. [89].
• Combe, Emblems, about 1594, p. [120].
• Compost des bergers, 1500–1705, p. [42].
• Contile, Ragionamento ... delle imprese, 1574, pp. [79], [86].
• Coörnhert, Recht ghebruyck ende misbruyck, 1585, p. [90].
• Corrozet, Hecatomgraphie, 1540, and other works, [74].
• Cory, Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous, 1840, pp. [22], [24].
• Costalius, Pegma, cum nar. phil., 1555, p. [77].
• Costerius, Ὁ Μικρόκοσμος, 1584, p. [98].
• Coustau, Le pegme, avec les nar. phil., 1560, p. [77].
• Crosse, His covert, MS. about 1600, with reasons for that date, [100].
• 2. Canis queritur nimium nocere, [482];
• Canis reversus ad suum vomitum, &c., [144];
• Captivus ob gulam, [130];
• Cavendum à meretricibus, [250];
• Certe tu vita es mihi, [161];
• Christus bajulat crucem, [43];
• Come l’oro nel foco, [179];
• Cominus et eminus, [231];
• Coney, so doth struggle in the net, [319];
• Conscientia integra laurus, [422];
• Consequitur quodcunque petit, [3];
• Consilio & virtute chimæram superari, &c., [299];
• Constantia comes victoriæ, [436];
• Contraria industriæ ac desidiæ præmia, [148];
• Cosi troppo piacer conduce à morte, [153];
• Cosi vivo piacer conduce à morte, [#151];
• Creatione et confusione del mondo, [35];
• Creavit dominus novum super terram, &c., [47];
• Cucullus non facit monachum, [138];
• Cum larvis non luctandum, [305];
• Curiositas fugienda, [267].
• 3. Calendrier et compost des bergers, 1705, p. [42].
• Callimachus, Perjuria ridet amantum, [328].
• Cambridge Works of Shakespeare, 1863, 1866, p. [157].
• Centifolium stultorum, 1707, p. [33].
• Chaucer, use of the word Emblem, [7].
• Chrysostom, God loved and hated in man, [281].
• Cicero, use of the word Emblem, [5].
• Collier, J. Payne, Phœnix’ nest, 1593, reprint, [380].
• Cotgrave’s Dictionary, Emblema [1].
• Cowden Clarke’s Concordance, [388].
• Cudworth’s Intellectual System, ed. 1678, pp. [2], [103].
• Cullum, Sir John, History and antiquities of Hawsted, 1813, p. [127].
• 4. Cadmus, alluded to in Rich. II., [245].
• Calcott, Lady, account of the seven ages of man inlaid on the pavement, Siena, [407].
• Calumny, Shakespeare, [434].
• Camel and his driver, [283].
• Camerarius, quoted for,—Butterfly and candle, [151];
  • Dog and moon, [270];
  • Eagle renewing youth, [369];
  • Elm and vine, [307];
  • Falconry, [366];
  • Jackdaw in fine feathers, [312];
  • Laurel and lightning, [423];
  • Ostrich, [234];
  • Pelican, [394];
  • Stag wounded, [398];
  • Swan, [217];
  • Turkey and cock, [357];
  • Unicorn, [372];
  • Wheat among bones, [184];
  • Wreaths on a spear, [223].
• Cannon bursting, Beza and Shakespeare, [344].
• Casket scenes, emblematical, [149]–154, [186].
• Cassius and Cæsar in the Tiber, [193].
• Cervantes and Shakespeare died in 1616, [318].
• Chaos, Ovid, Symeoni, [448];
  • Aneau, Whitney, [449], [450];
  • Shakespeare, [451], [453].
• Charles I., his fine collection of paintings, [111].
• Charles V. emperor, the Tewrdannckh dedicated to him in 1517, p. [68].
• Chatterton, Dr., on choice of a wife, [210].
• Chess, emb. of life and equality in the grave, Perriere, [320];
  • Corrozet, [321].
• Child and motley-fool, Whitney, Sambucus, [484];
  • Shakespeare, [485];
  • Drant, [486].
• Chivalry, wreath of, Paradin, Shakespeare, [169].
• Cholmeley, knight, Sir Hughe, [320].
• Christian art, fulness of its emblems, [26].
• Christian love, the soul, and Christ, Plate II., [32].
• Circe, Alciat, [250];
  • Whitney, Horace, Reusner, [251];
  • Shakespeare, [252].
• Classification of the correspondencies and parallelisms, [187].
• Cliffords, father and son, [192].
• Clip the anvil of my sword, Shakespeare, [325];
  • Perriere, [326];
  • Whitney, and meaning, [327].
• Closet adorned with emblems, [127].
• Coats of arms, often imaginative, [236].
• Coincidences of Whitney and Shakespeare in the use of words, [478], [479], [497]–514.
• Coincidences and parallelisms in heraldic emblems, [240].
• Coins and medals often emblematical, [13].
• Columbus, tribulations on marble, [461].
• Commonwealth of bees, Whitney and Shakespeare, [361]–365.
• Compress, difficulty to, [101].
• Conclusion, Shakespeare acquainted with Emblem-books, [495].
• Confidence kept back, Shakespeare, [434].
• Conscience, power of, Horace, [420];
  • Vænius, [421];
  • Shakespeare, [421], [424], [425].
• Coörnhert’s device of Providence making poor and making rich, Plate XVI., [489].
• Coriolanus, [201];
  • his civic crowns, [225].
• Coronation scene, Anne Bullen’s, [9].
• Correspondence of Whitney and Shakespeare in words, [477]–479, [497]–514.
• Corrozet, quoted, Butterfly and candle, [152];
  • Chess, [321];
  • Doves and Cupid, [245];
  • Fortune, [261];
  • Gem in gold, [418];
  • Hydra, [374];
  • Icarus, [289];
  • Sun and wind, [165].
• Corser of Stand, Rev. T., Historia S. Joan, sold for 415l., p. [49];
  • De Sole et Luna, [52];
  • Figures du vieil Test. et du nouuel, [63];
  • Alciat of 1531 p. [69];
  • Dance of Death, [71];
  • Crosse his covert, MS., [100].
• Cotton, Richard, Esquier, of Combermere, 1586, p. [360].
• Countryman and serpent, Freitag, Reusner, [197];
  • Shakespeare, [198].
• Coustau, Camel and driver, [283];
  • Silence, [209];
  • Orpheus, [271];
  • Ruins and writings, [442].
• Crab and butterfly, Symeoni, [15].
• Creation and confusion, Ovid, Plate III., [35].
• Crescent moon, Giovio, [125], [127].
• Crests of ancient times, [14]–16.
• Crowns, civic and others, [221], [224].
• Cupid felling a tree, [324];
  • Blinded, Perriere and Shakespeare, [329], [331];
  • and Bear, Boissard, [349];
  • Tronus Cupidinis, [348];
  • Cupid and Death, Alciat, [400];
  • Whitney, [401];
  • Haechtan, [400];
  • Peacham, [403];
  • Cupid in mid-air, Shakespeare, [404].
• Curtius, a silver emblem ornament, [5].
• Custom, a guide for Emblems, [37].

D.