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

• I, O. L., Giovio’s Ragionamento, Venetia, 1556, p. [30];
• O. L., Alciat’s Diverse Imprese (p. 2), Lyons, 1551, p. [84].
• 1. Ieucht, Den nieuwen Ieucht spieghel, 1610, p. [98].
• Italian emblem-books, passim, and, [86], [92].
• 2. Iddio, perche é vecchio, fa suoi al suo essempio, [136];
• Il caos, [448];
• Il fine corona l’opere, [437];
• Illicitum non sperandum, [182];
• Il mal me preme et mi spaventa Peggio, [124];
• Immensi tremor oceani, [227];
• Importunitas evitanda, [327];
• Impotentis vindictæ fœmina, [193];
• Improba siren desidia, [252];
• In astrologos, [288];
• In avaros vel quibus melior conditio ab extraneis offertur, [280];
• In divitem indoctum, [229];
• Industria naturam corrigit, [256];
• Ingenio superat vires, [126];
• In hac spe vivo, [159], [181], [185];
• In morte vita, [185];
• In occasionem, [259];
• In receptatores sicariorum, [275];
• In sinu alere serpentem, [199];
• Insonti qui insidias struit, ipse perit, [54];
• In spe fortitude, [182];
• In statuam Bacchi, [248];
• In studiosum captum amore, [441];
• In temerarios, [285];
• Invidiæ descriptio, [432];
• Ipsa sibi lumen quod invidet aufort, [124];
• Isaac portat ligna sua, [43].
• 3. Image or symbol of St. Matthew, [48].
• 4. Icarus and ill-fortune, Alciat, [288];
  • Whitney, [288];
  • Corrozet, [289];
  • Shakespeare, [291].
• Idiot-fool and death, Holbein and Shakespeare, [472].
• Index, General, [543–571].
• Indian hieroglyphics, [18].
• Industry. See [Diligence and Idleness], [145].
• Introductory lines,—
  • Whitney, D. O. M., [464];
  • Shakespeare, [464].
• Inverted torch,—
  • Shakespeare, Symeoni, [171];
  • Paradin, Whitney, [173];
  • Shakespeare, [170];
  • Vænius, [171];
  • Corrozet, [175].
• Io, [245]. See [Jupiter].

J.

• 1. Joachim, Abbot, died 1201;
  • editions 1475, 1515, Prophetia dello Abbate Joachimo circa le Pontefici & Re, [67].
• Joan. S., Euangelist., block-book. See [Historia].
• Jodelle, Recueil, 1558;
  • Austriacis gentis imagines, 1558, 1569, 1573, p. [80].
• John, Don, of Austria, Notes on Alciat, 1572, p. [86].
• Joseph, Daniel, Judith and Esther.
  • See [Histories of], [45].
• Jovius. See [Giovio.]
• Junius, Emblemata, 1565;
  • and 10 others, [86].
• 2. Jam satis, [128];
• Jus hospitalitatis violatum, [357];
• Juvenilia studia cum provectiori ætate permutata, [381].
• 3. Jode, Gerard de, [89], [282], [298], [313].
• Johnson and Steevens’ Shakspeare, [483].
• Johnson, Dr., [426].
• Jones, Mr., Chetham Library, on Joachim, [67], [123].
• Jonson’s testimony to Shakespeare, [496].
• Junius, quoted:—
  • Fame armed with a pen, [446];
  • Oak and reed, [314];
  • Pelican and young, [395];
  • The caged cat and the rats; The crocodile and her eggs, [303].
• 4. Jackdaw in fine feathers, Camerarius, Æsop, Microcosme, Shakespeare, [313].
• James VI. of Scotland, Beza’s emblems, [122];
  • Epigram on, [122].
• Janus, two-headed, Alciat, Whitney, [139], [140];
  • Shakespeare, [140].
• Jar, with Emblems, named by Pliny, [5].
• Jason, [229], [230].
• Jove laughs at lovers’ perjuries, Shakespeare, [327];
  • Van Veen, Callimachus, Tibullus, [328];
  • Shakespeare, [328].
• June, illustration from Spenser, ed. 1616, p. [136].
• Jupiter and Io, Symeoni, Ovid, Shakespeare, [245], [246].

K.

• K, O. L., Plato’s Works (p. 153), Francfort, 1602, p. [212].
• 1.Kalendrier des Bergers, MS., 1330, p. [42];
• Kindred works in Latin, Italian, and German, 1475, p. [42].
• 3. Kenrick’s Anc. Egypt, p. [21].
• King’s Vale Royal, [211].
• Knight’s Pictorial Shakspere, [156];
  • Acknowledging Shakespeare’s acquaintance with Whitney, [396].
• Kugler’s Handbuch de geschichte der malerei, Berlin, 1847, pp. [110], [111], [114].
• 4. Katherine, Queen of France, her emblem, [128].
• Keir, near Dunblane, N. B., its library:
  • —Astrolabium planum, 1488, p. [42];
  • Alciat’s Emblems, 1531, p. [69];
  • Entry of Philip of Spain into Antwerp, 1549, p. [75];
  • Gueroult’s Premier livre des emblemes, 1550, p. [75];
  • Doni’s Emblem Works, 1552, 1553, p. [76];
  • Remark, [86];
  • Guillim’s Heraldry, [100];
  • Thirty-five original Emblem Drawings by Crispin de Passe, [177].
• King-emperor, or master-bee, [359]–363.
• Kingfisher, Halcyon-days, Ovid, Aristotle, and Pliny, [391];
  • Giovio, Shakespeare, [392].
• Knowledge of Emblem-books in Britain, [119]–137.
• Koster of Haarlem, about 1430, p. [43];
  • Earliest engraver of block-books, 1410–1420, p. [45].

L.

• L, O. L., Camerarius (i. 35), Norimberg, 1605, p. #383;
  • O. L., David’s Veridicus Christianus (70), Antverpiæ, 1606, p. [60].
• 1. L’Anglois, Discours des hierog. Égyptiens, 1583, p. [87].
• Le Bey de Batilly, Emblemata, 1596, p. [94].
• Leemans, Horapollinis Niloi Hierogl., 1835, examples from, pp. [24], [25].
• Lefevre, Emblemes de Maistre A. Alciat, 1536, p. [70].
• Le Vasseur, Devises des Emp. Rom., 1608, p. [93];
  • Devises des Rois de France, 1609, p. [93].
• Libri cronicarum, 1493, p. [56].
• Locher, Stultifera navis, before 1500, Plate IX., [57].
• Lonicer, J. A., Stand und Orden, 1585, p. [90];
  • Venatus et aucupium icon., 1582, p. [88].
• Lonicer, Ph., Insignia sacræ Cæsaræ maj., 1579, p. [88].
• Lydgate’s Dance of Macaber, about 1430, p. [56];
  • Hollar’s account, 1790, quoted, [56].
• 2. La fin couronne les œuvres, [139], [320], [322];
• La fin nous faict tous egaulx, [321];
• La force d’eloquence, [273];
• La guerre doulce aux inexperimentez, [152];
• Latet anguis in herba, [340];
• La vie de Memoire, [444];
• Le chien est retourné à son propre vomissement, et la truie lavée au bourbier, [144];
• Loues triall, [179];
• Lucet et ignescit, sed non rubus igne calescit, [64];
• Lux tua vita mea, [160];
• Lux tua vita mihi, [160];
• L’ymage de Fortune, [261].
• 3. Langhorne’s Plutarch, Timon, [430].
• Le Bey de Batilly, quoted:—Adamant on anvil, [347];
  • Apollo and Christian Muse, [379];
  • Milo caught in a tree, [344];
  • Life like a game of dice, [322].
• Lindsay, Lord, Christian Art, [293];
  • Seven Ages, [407].
• 4. Labour in vain:—Cupid and sieve, Perriere, [329];
  • Shakespeare, [330];
  • A tun with holes, Paradin, Whitney, [331], [332].
• Laing, D., letter, 1867, Queen Mary’s bed, [123], [note].
• Lamp-burning, Horapollo, Shakespeare, [456].
• Land-jewels of the Netherlands, what, [83].
• Languages, snatches of, by Shakespeare, [163].
• Laurel, safety against lightning, Sambucus, [422];
  • Whitney, Camerarius, [423];
  • Shakespeare, [424], [425].
• Life, its seven ages, Plate XV., [407].
• Life, evils of, Holbein’s Simulachres, Shakespeare, [471].
• Limbert, Stephen, of Norwich School, [461].
• Limner’s art in Emblems, [38].
• Loft, Capel, his opinion of Shakespeare, [106], [107].
• Logomaniacs, reproved by Cudworth, [103].
• Lorrain, Card. of, his impresa, [124].
• Lottery of 1569, Whitney, [208];
  • Shakespeare, [209]–211.
• Louis XI., Order of St. Michael in 1469, p. [227];
  • his impresa, [231].
• Louis XIV., history of, in medals, &c., [13].
• Love, its transforming power, Shakespeare, [349].

M.

• M, O. L., Linacre’s Galen, f. 35, Paris, 1538, p. [119].
• 1. Macaber, Dance of, 14th century, p. [39];
  • ed. 1484, p. [39];
  • La Danse Macabre, 1485, and several other editions, [56].
• Mansion, Dialogue des creatures moralizie, 1482, p. [52].
• Manuel, El conde Lucanor, 1575, p. [90].
• Marquale, Diverse imprese, 1547, p. [70].
• Martin, Orus Apollo de Ægypte, 1543, p. [22].
• Mercerius, Emblemata, 1592, p. [94].
• Mercier, Horapollo, 1551, p. [22].
• Messin, Boissard’s Emblêmes, 1588, pp. [87], [164], [307], [320], [383], [444].
• Microcosme, le, 1562, p. [247].
• Mignault, or Minos, Emblemes d’Alciat, 1583, p. [70];
  • Omnia Andreæ Alciati Emblemata. Adj. comm., 1573 and 1581, pp. [71], [79].
• ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ, Parvus mundus, 1579 and 1592, pp. [88], [267].
• Modius, Liber ordinis eccl. origo, 1585, and Pandectæ triumphales, 1586, pp. [88], [89].
• Moerman, Apologi creaturarum, 1584, pp. [53], [88];
  • De Cleyn Werelt, [98].
• Montenay. See [De Montenay].
• More’s “pageauntes,” 1496, p. [120].
• Murner, Chartiludium logicæ, 1507, p. [64];
  • Narren Beschwörung, 1512, 1518, p. [65].
• 2. Maleficio beneficium compensatum, [197];
• Malè parta, malè dilabuntur, [128], [502];
• Manie droppes pierce the stone, [324];
• Materiam superabat opus, [124];
• Maulvaise nourriture, [175];
• Mea sic mihi prosunt, [124];
• Medio occidet die, [124];
• Mediis tranquillus in undis, [125], [note];
• Mens immota manet, [335];
• Me pompæ provexit apex, [158], [168];
• Merces anguina, [198];
• ΜΙΚΡΟΝ ΦΡΟΝΤΙΣΑΝΤΕΣ ΣΩΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ, [155];
• Moderata vis impotenti violentia potior, [166];
• Mort vivifiante, [185];
• Much rain wears the marble, [324];
• Multiplication de proces, [374];
• Mulier umbra viri, [468];
• Murus æneus, sana conscientia, [423].
• 3. Magnat, On flower signs, 1855, p. [18].
• Martin, Shakespeare’s seven ages, 1848, p. [407].
• Menestrier, Philosophia and Judicium, 1595, pp. [78], [79].
• Microcosm, quoted:—Fortune, [263];
  • Prometheus, [267];
  • Arion, [280];
  • Milo, [298].
• Mignault, quoted:—Symbols, Coats of Arms, and Emblems, ed. 1581, or 1608, p. [2];
  • Narcissus, [295];
  • Hares and dead lion, [304], [305].
• Milton, Emblem, [9];
  • Paradise Lost, curiously portrayed in Adams appel, 1642, p. [132];
  • in Boissard’s Theatrum, The fall of Satan, Plate XI., [133].
• Moerman quoted, Wolf and ass, [53], [54].
• Moine’s Devises, Roy des abeilles, [363].
• Montalde, P. Horatius, [79].
• More, Sir T., quoted, [120], [461], [481].
• Motley, Dutch Republic, [81], [82].
• Mulgrave, Voyage to the North Sea, [348].
• 4. Maidens, Hindoo and Persian, and flowers, [18].
• Manchester Free Library, Faerno’s Fables, 1565, p. [85].
• Man, like a wolf, [281];
  • like a god, [283].
• Man measuring his forehead, [129].
• Man swimming with a burden, from Perriere, [480];
  • Whitney, [480];
  • Shakespeare, [481].
• Man’s greatness, Coustau, [283];
  • Reusner and Shakespeare, [283], [284].
• Manuscript Emblem-books, Macaber, [39];
  • Astronomical, [41];
  • Speculum humanæ salvationis, [42], [44];
  • Bedford Missal, [44];
  • Hortulus animæ, [58];
  • Crosse, [100];
  • Eng. Alciat, [101].
• Map of the world, Sambucus, [351];
  • Shakespeare, [352].
• Marble, writings on, [457]–462.
• Marcus Curtius, [5].
• Marquetry or mosaic work, in Emblems, [4].
• Mary of Lorrain, her impresa, [123].
• Mary, queen of Scotland, educated in France, 1548, p. [121];
  • Bed of state wrought by her with many emblems, [123];
  • Account of it, [123]–125.
• Matthias, emperor, [96], [97].
• Maximilian I., Tewrdannckh attributed to him, 1517, p. [67];
  • Ehrenpforte and Triumphwagen in his honour, [67].
• Maximilian II., patron of Sambucus, [85].
• Maxwell. See [Stirling-Maxwell].
• Mead, Dr., his copy of the Dance of Death, [40].
• Medeia and the swallows, as shown by Alciat, [190];
  • Whitney, [190];
  • Shakespeare, [192].
• Mercury and fortune, Alciat, [255];
  • Mercury charming Argus, Drummond, [123];
  • Mercury mending a lute, Sambucus, Whitney, [256];
  • Shakespeare, [257], [258].
• Metrical renderings or translations:
  • Diana, [3];
  • the Fool, [34];
  • Wolf and ass, [54];
  • Oarsman’s cry, [61], [62];
  • Epigram on James I., [122];
  • Janus, [140];
  • Diligence, [145];
  • Sun of the soul, [161];
  • Sun and wind, [165];
  • Inverted torch, [171];
  • Money, [178];
  • Hope, [184];
  • Snake, [198];
  • Drums, [206];
  • Wreaths, [222];
  • Porcupine, [232];
  • Courage, [233];
  • Lady Bona, [235];
  • Wine, [249];
  • Sloth, [251];
  • Fortune, [255], [262];
  • Prometheus, [266];
  • Dog and moon, [271];
  • Eloquence, [272];
  • Assassin, [276];
  • Actæon, [277];
  • Arion, [280];
  • Man to man a god, [283];
  • Phaeton, [285];
  • Daphne, [297];
  • Pegasus, [299];
  • Insult to Hector, [304];
  • Dead lion, [306];
  • Elm and vine, [308];
  • False feathers, [312];
  • Ash and reed, [314];
  • Cupid and the sieve, [330];
  • Mind unmoved, [335];
  • Adamant, [348];
  • Wasps, [360];
  • Falcon, [367];
  • Renewed youth, [369];
  • Unicorn, [372];
  • Law’s delay, [374];
  • Glory of poets, [380];
  • Phœnix, [383];
  • Alcyone, [391];
  • King-fisher, [392];
  • Pelican, [394], [395];
  • Wounded stag, [398];
  • Theatre, [405];
  • State of man, [408];
  • The hen, [411];
  • Beauty, [419];
  • Integer vitæ, [421];
  • Laurel, [422];
  • Timon, [428];
  • Constancy, [436];
  • Cupid and a ship, [437];
  • Chaos, [448], [449];
  • Wrongs on marble, [457];
  • We flee what we follow, [467];
  • Ban-dogs, [482];
  • Riches and poverty, [489].
• Michael, St., order of, 1469, p. [227].
• Milo, in a tree, De Batilly, [344];
  • Bull-bearing, Shakespeare;
  • Microcosm, [296].
• Minerva superintending the Argo, [20].
• Minnesingers, or troubadours, remains of, 1461, p. [50].
• Miscellaneous Emblems:
  • Words and forms of thought, Paris and Helen, [463];
  • D. O. M., [464], [465];
  • Time flying, &c., [466]–468;
  • Shadows fled and pursued, [468];
  • Death and sleep, [469]–471;
  • Death’s fool, [471];
  • Old time, [473], [474];
  • Similarity of dedications, [475];
  • Pine-trees in a storm, [475]–477;
  • Correspondencies in words, [477]–479;
  • Man swimming with a burden, [480];
  • Ban-dogs, [481]–483;
  • Child and motley fool, [484];
  • Ape and miser’s gold, [487];
  • Hands of Providence, [489];
  • Time leading the seasons, [491];
  • Eternity, [491].
• Montgomerie, Earl of, Shakespeare’s dedication to, [122].
• Moral and æsthetic Emblems, allusions to, Corrozet, Montenay, Le Bey de Batilly, Shakespeare, [411]–462:
  • —Things at our feet, [411]–413;
  • Drake’s ship, [413]–415;
  • Adam in the garden, [415], [416];
  • Gem in a ring of gold, [417]–420;
  • Conscience, [420]–422;
  • Laurel, safety of, against lightning, [422]–425;
  • Pleasant vices, [425];
  • Timon of Athens, [426]–431;
  • Envy, [431]–433;
  • Ship tossed on the sea, [434]–440;
  • Student in love, [440]–442;
  • Ruins and writings, [443]–445;
  • Fame armed with a pen, [446];
  • Good out of evil, [447];
  • Il Caos, [448];
  • Chaos, [449]–454;
  • Thread of life, [454], [455];
  • Lamp burning, [456];
  • Wrongs on marble, [457]–461;
  • Write in dust, [461];
  • Higher morality, [462].
• Moth and candle, [151]–153. See [Butterfly].
• Motley fool and child, [499].
• Mouse caught in an oyster, Alciat, Whitney, Freitag, [130].
• Mulcaster, of Merchant Tailors’ school, 1561, p. [100].
• Music, Shakespeare’s appreciation of, [116].
• Mythological characters, Emblems for, [241]–301:
  • —Instances, [243], [244];
    • Milo, [244];
    • Cupid’s wings, [245];
    • Cadmus, [245];
    • Atlas, [245];
    • Jupiter and Io, [245];
    • Bacchus, [246]–248;
    • Circe, [250];
    • Sirens, [253];
    • Mercury and Fortune, [255];
    • Mercury and the lute, [256];
    • Mercury, [257], [258];
    • Fortune, or occasion, and opportunity, [258]–260;
    • Fortune, [261];
    • Fortune on the rolling stone, [263];
    • Occasion, [263]–265;
    • Prometheus bound, [265]–269;
    • The dog baying at the moon, [270];
    • Orpheus, [271]–274;
    • Actæon and the hounds, [274]–279;
    • Arion, [279]–281;
    • The contrary sentiment, [281]–283;
    • Phaeton, [284]–287;
    • Dædalus and Icarus, [287]–291;
    • Niobe, [291]–294;
    • Narcissus, [294]–296;
    • Daphne, [296], [297];
    • Milo, [297];
    • Pegasus, [298]–300.
• Mythology, a fruitful source of illustrations, [241];
  • Open to every one, [242];
  • Ovid the chief storehouse, [242].

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