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

• 1. Narren Beschwörung, [65]. See [Murner].
• Narren Schyff, 1494, p. [57];
  • Supplied texts for Geyler, [66]. See [Brant].
• Navicula, 1511, p. [66]. See [Geyler].
• Navis stultifera, before 1500, p. [57]. See [Locher].
• Nef des dames vertueuses, 1503, p. [63]. See [Champier].
• Nef des folles, selon les cinq sens, 1501, p. [61].
• Nef des princes, 1502, p. [63]. See [Champier].
• Nestor, Histoire des hommes—de Medici, ed. 1564, p. [80].
• North, Morall philosophie of Doni, 1570 and 1601, pp. [76], [91], [120].
• 2. Ne per morte, [309];
• Nil penna sed usus, [370];
• Nimium rebus ne fide secundis, [476];
• Niuno vecchio, Spaventa Iddio, [136];
• Nobil è quel, ch’ è di virtu dotata, [366];
• Non absque Theseo, [143];
• No pleasure without pain, [333];
• Nous savons bien le temps, [392];
• Nunquam siccabitur æstu, [125], [note];
• Nusquam nisi rectum, [124];
• Nusquam tuta fides, [196].
• 3.
• Nebulo nebulonum, 1620, p. [65]. See [Flintner].
• North’s Plutarch, 1579, Timon of Athens, [426];
  • Epitaph, [430], [431].
• Notes and queries, 1862, p. [67].
• 4.
• Napoleon’s return from Elba, [18].
• Narcissus, from Mignault, Alciat, [294];
  • Aneau, Whitney, Shakespeare, [295], [296].
• Nature, Emblems from facts in, and from properties of animals, [346]–376:
  • —Natural, one of the divisions of emblems, [346];
  • Frosty Caucasus, [346];
  • Adamant indestructible, [347], [348];
  • Bear and cub, power of love, [348]–350;
  • The inhabited world, [350]–353:
  • Zodiac, [353]–355;
  • Turkey, [356]–358;
  • Vulture, [358];
  • Commonwealth of bees, [358]–365;
  • Happe goulden honie bringes, [364];
  • Falconry, [365]–368;
  • Eagle renewing its youth, [369];
  • Ostrich spreading its wings, [370];
  • Unicorn, [371]–373;
  • Hercules and dragon, [373]–375;
  • Various animals, [375], [376].
• Nemesis and hope, [182]. See [Hope].
• Niobe and her children, from Alciat, [292];
  • Aneau, Whitney, Shakespeare, [293].
• Nowell, Dr. Alexander, [395].
• Nun, or canoness, Holbein, [469].

O.

• 1. Occulti academici, &c., 1568. See [Rime].
• Orozco, Emblemas morales, 1610, pp. [31], [99].
• Ovid, Heroidum liber, 1473, p. [242];
  • Metamorphoses, 1480, p. [242];
  • M. cum figuris depictis, 1497, p. [35];
  • Metamorphoses, Spanish, 1494, p. [242];
  • Italian, 1497, p. [242];
  • Metamorphoses, figurato, &c., 1559, pp. [35], [245];
  • Plantin’s ed. 1591, p. [246];
  • Golding’s English translation, 1565 and 1567, pp. [241], [243];
  • La bible des poetes, [242].
• 2.
• Orphei musica, [272];
• Otiosi semper egentes, [146];
• O vita misero longa, [268].
• 3. Oetlinger, Bibliog. biog. univ., [97].
• Ormerod, History of Cheshire, [211].
• Ovid, Metamorphoses, quoted:—Singular subscription, [242];
  • Swan, [214];
  • Circe, [250];
  • Orpheus, [274];
  • Actæon, [278];
  • Phaeton, [284];
  • Niobe, [291];
  • Daphne, [296];
  • Phœnix, [385];
  • Halcyon, [391];
  • Wounded stag, [399];
  • Cupid’s arrow golden, [400];
  • Chaos, [448];
  • 2 Trist., Jove’s thunderbolt, [209].
• 4. Oak and reed, Junius, Shakespeare, Vænius, [315];
  • Whitney, [316].
• Oarsman’s cry, [61], [62].
• Occasion, or opportunity, [258];
  • Alciat, [259];
  • Whitney, [260];
  • Shakespeare, [260], [264], [265];
  • [Plate XII.], [265].
• Old men at death, Shakespeare, [215].
• Old time, Shakespeare, [473].
• Olive and vine, [249]. See [Vine].
• Orange, Prince of, device, [125], [note].
• Order, of St. Michael, [227];
  • Of the golden fleece, [228].
• Ornamentation of houses, Emblems used for, [126]–130, [131].
• Orpheus, Coustau, [271];
  • Reusner, Whitney, [272];
  • Ovid, [274];
  • Shakespeare, [273], [274].
• Ostrich, eating iron, [126];
  • Giovio, [233];
  • Camerarius and Shakespeare, [234];
  • Spreading its wings, Paradin, [370];
  • Whitney and Shakespeare, [370], [371].

P.

• P, O. L., Alciat’s Emb. p. xii., Antverp., 1581, p. [318].
• 1. Palazza, I discorsi imprese, &c., 1577, pp. [79], 86.
• Paracelsus, Prognosticatio, 1536, p. [71].
• Paradin, Quadrins historiques de la Bible, 1555, p. [75];
  • Devises heroiques, 1557, Symbola heroica, 1567, and other editions before 1600, p. [75];
  • English version, 1591, p. [75];
  • Menestrier, 79.
• Parker, Tryumphes of Petrarcke, 1564, p. [55].
• Passæus, 95, 96. See [De Passe].
• Peacham, Minerva Britanna, 1612, pp. [99], 100.
• Percivalle, Versus et emblemata, 1588, p. [79].
• Pergaminus, Dyalogus Creaturarum, written in the 14th century,—editions, Latin, 1480, 1483;
  • French, 1482;
  • and English, 1520, pp. [51], 52, 66.
• Perriere, 60. See [De la Perriere].
• Personé, alluded to by Menestrier, 79.
• Petrarch, Trionphi, 1475, 1510, and 1523, p. [55].
• Pezzi, La vigna del signore, 1589, p. [87].
• Pfintzing, Tewrdannckh, 1517;
  • love adventures of Maximilian I. and Mary of Burgundy, [67], [68].
• Phasianinus, Latin version of Horapollo, 1517, p. [64].
• Philieul, Dialogue des Devises, 1561, p. [78].
• Pierius Valerian, Hieroglyphica, 1556, pp. [24], [80].
• Pignorius, Vetustissimæ tabulæ, 1605, [95];
  • Characters Ægyptii, 1608, pp. [95], [97];
  • and Short notes on Alciat, 1618, p. [71].
• Pinciano, Los Emblemas de Alciato, 1549, p. [70].
• Pinedi, Duodecim symbola in Jobum, 1600, p. [79].
• Pittoni, Imprese di diversi principi, 1566, p. [86].
• Ponce de Leon, Epiphanius, 1587, p. [28].
• Porri, Vaso di verita, 1597, p. [92].
• Porro, Il primo libro, 1589, p. [87].
• 2. Parfaite est l’amitie qui vit après la mort, [307];
• Partium τῆς οἰκουμένης symbola, [351];
• Patria cuique chara, [361];
• Paupertas immerita, [489];
• Pecunia sanguis et anima mortalium, [177];
• Perfidus familiaris, [195];
• Pennæ gloria immortalis, [446];
• Perpolit incultum paulatim tempus amorem, [348];
• Per vincula crescit, [123];
• Peu à peu, [349];
• Φιλαυτία, [295];
• Piena di dolor voda de sperenza, [124];
• Pietas filiorum in parentes, [191];
• Pietas revocabit ab orco, [124];
• Piu por dulzura que por fuerza, [162], [167];
• Plus par doulceur que par force, [165];
• Plus virtute quàm armis, or Plvs par vertv qve par armes, [164];
• Poetarum gloria, [379];
• Ponderibus virtus innata resistit, [124];
• Porta hæc clausa erit et non aperietur, [47];
• Post amara dulcia, [332];
• Πῶς γέροντα μουσίκον, [213];
• Πῶς λαὸν πειθήνιον βασιλεῖ, [358];
• Precipitio senza speranza, [124];
• Precium non vile laborum, [228];
• Principis bona imago, [143];
• Principis clementia, [360];
• Pro lege et grege, [394];
• Propera tarde, [16];
• Prudentes vino abstinent, [249];
• Pur reposer, [7].
• 3. Palæphatus, on Actæon, [278].
• Paradin, quoted,—Ape and miser’s gold, [501];
  • Arrow wreathed on a tomb, [183];
  • Barrel full of holes, [332];
  • Butterfly and candle, [151];
  • Fleece, golden, [228];
  • Gold on the touchstone, [175];
  • Leafless trees and rainbow, [128];
  • Michael, order of St., [227];
  • Ostrich with stretched wings, [370];
  • Phœnix, [234], [385];
  • Snake on the finger, [342];
  • Stag wounded, [399];
  • Wheat among bones, [184];
  • Wreath of chivalry, [169];
  • Wreath of oak, [224];
  • Wrongs on marble, [458].
• Penny Cyclopædia, on Pericles, [168];
  • on the plays of Henry VI., [238];
  • Unicorn, [372].
• Percy Reliques, Dragon, [373].
• Pfister, earliest printed book on scriptural subjects, 1462, p. [45];
  • Earliest German book, 1461, p. [50].
• Pindar, on [Symbol], [2].
• Plantin, 1564–1590, fifty editions of Emblem-books, [85].
• Plato, the swan, [214];
  • king-bee, [359].
• Plautus, “life to me,” [161].
• Plutarch, Timon of Athens, [430];
  • Carking, [468].
• Priestley, Lectures on History—on Grecian coins, [13].
• Proclus, Seven ages of man, [407].
• 4. Painters referred to, Romano, [110];
  • Rubens, [96];
  • Titian, [111], [114].
• Palm-tree, a device on Queen Mary’s bed, [124].
• Parallelisms and correspondencies between Shakespeare and emblem writers, numerous, [494].
• Pegasus described, [141]–144;
  • Alciat, [299];
  • Shakespeare, [300].
• Pelican, Epiphanius, [393];
  • Camerarius and Reusner, [394];
  • Junius and Whitney, [395];
  • Shakespeare, [396];
  • Note in Knight, [396].
• Pembroke, earl of, dedication to, 1668, p. [122].
• Pericles, accepted as of Shakespeare’s authorship, [156], [157], [158];
  • the triumph-scene, [158];
  • First knight, Lux tua vita mihi, [160]–162;
  • Second knight, Piu por dulzura que por fuerza, [162]–167;
  • Third knight, Me pompæ provexit apex, [168]–170;
  • Fourth knight, Quod me alit, me extinguit, [170]–175;
  • Fifth knight, Sic spectanda fides, [175]–181#;
  • Sixth knight, In hac spe vivo, [181]–186.
• Personification, especially in mythology, [258].
• Perth, earl of, Emblems in a letter to, [124], [note].
• Phaeton, Ovid, [284];
  • Alciat, [285];
  • Symeoni, [284];
  • Shakespeare, [286], [287].
• Philip, duke of Burgundy, 1429, Golden fleece, [228].
• Phœnix, emblem for long life; for returning to friends; restoration after long ages, [23];
  • Oneliness or loneliness, [235], [236];
  • Accounts of, [22], [23], [234]–236;
  • Phœnix’ nest, [380];
  • Emblem of loneliness, Paradin, Giovio, [234], [235];
  • Shakespeare, [236];
  • Emblem of duration, Horapollo, [23];
  • Emblem of new birth, and resurrection, Freitag, [381];
  • Mary of Lorraine, [123];
  • Emblem of oneliness, Paradin and Reusner, [385];
  • Whitney, [387];
  • Shakespeare, [388]–390;
  • Emblem of life eternal, [386].
• Phœnix with two hearts, Hawkins, [383];
  • the Virgin mother and her son, entire oneness of affection, [384];
  • Shakespeare, [384].
• Phryxus, or Phrixus, [229]. See [Golden Fleece].
• Picture writing, [18], [30].
• Picture and short poesie, marks of the Emblem, [31].
• Pilgrim travelling, Cullurn’s Hawsted, [128].
• Pine-trees in a storm, Horace, Sambucus, [475];
  • Whitney, [476];
  • Shakespeare, [477].
• Plate, of emblematical character, [20].
• Pleasant vices, their punishment, [425].
• Poetic ideas, emblems for, [377]–410;
  • Shakespeare’s splendid symbolical imagery, [377];
  • Glory of poets, [379], [380];
  • The phœnix, [381]–383;
  • Phœnix with two hearts, [384];
  • The bird always alone, [384]–390;
  • Kingfisher, [391]–393;
  • Pelican, [393]–398;
  • Wounded stag, [397]–400;
  • Golden, the epithet, [400];
  • Death and Love, [404], [405];
  • Cupid in mid-air, [404];
  • Human life a theatre, [405], [406];
  • Seven ages of life, [407]–410.
• Poet’s badge, Alciat, [218];
  • Whitney, [217];
  • Shakespeare, [219].
• Poet’s glory, [379];
  • Le Bey de Batilly, [380];
  • Shakespeare, [380].
• Politics in emblems, Il Principe, [34].
• Porcupine, Drummond, [124];
  • Giovio, [231];
  • Camerarius, Shakespeare, [232].
• Portcullis, emblem used by Henry VIII., [124].
• Powers granted for noble purposes, Whitney, Shakespeare, [412].
• Printing with blocks, [45]–49;
  • with moveable types, [50].
• Progne or Procne, Aneau, Shakespeare, [193].
• Prometheus bound, Alciat, [266];
  • Aneau, [267];
  • Microcosme, [267];
  • Reusner, Whitney, [268];
  • Shakespeare, [268], [269].
• Proverbs, Emblems in connection with, [318]–345:
  • —Proverbs suggestive of narrative or picture, [318];
    • La fin couronne les œuvres, [320]–322;
    • Manie droppes pierce the stone, &c., [324];
    • To clip the anvil of my sword, [325]–327;
    • Jove laughs at lovers’ perjuries, [328], [329];
    • Labour in vain, [329]–332;
    • Every rose its thorn, [332]–334;
    • True as the needle to the pole, [334]–337;
    • Out of greatest least, [337]–339;
    • A snake in the grass, [340], [341];
    • Who against us? [342], [343];
    • Hoist with his own petar, [343], [344].
• Providence, and girdle, [413] (see [Drake’s ship]);
  • Making poor and enriching, [Plate XVI.], [489].
• Pyramid and ivy, Drummond, [124].

Q.

• 1. Quadrins historiques de la Bible, 1553–1583, twenty-two editions in various languages73.
• Quadrins historiques du Genèse, 1553, p. [73].
• Quadrins historiques de l’Exode, 1553, p. [73].
• 2. Quæ ante pedes? [411];
• Quæ sequimur fugimus, nosque fugiunt, [466];
• Quæ supra nos, nihil ad nos, [260];
• Quel che nutre, estingue, [175];
• Que mas puede la eloquençia que la fortaliza, [164];
• Quem nulla pericula terrent, [347];
• Quibus rebus confidimus, iis maxime evertimus, [344];
• Quid nisi victis dolor, [124];
• Qui me alit, me extinguit, [171]–173;
• Quis contra nos? 126, [342];
• Quod in te est, prome, [395];
• Quod me alit, me extinguit, [170], [174];
• Quod nutrit extinguit, [174];
• Quod sis esse velis, [312];
• Quo modo vitam? [456];
• Quo pacto mortem seu hominis exitum? [454];
• Quo tendis? [128].
• 3. Quarles, definition of Emblem, [1].
• Quinctilian, use of the word Emblem, [5].
• 4. Qui or quod, variations in the reading, [174].

R.

• R, O. L., Nef des folz, xlix., Paris, 1499, p. [411];
• O. L., of uncertain origin, p. [531].
• 1. Rabelais, Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, 1565, p. [86].
• Rastall, Dialogue of creatures, 1520, p. [51].
• Regiomontanus, or Muller, 1476, p. [42].
• Regiselmus. See [Joachim].
• Reusner, Emblemata 1581, Aureolorum Emblem., 1591, pp. [88], [89], [251].
• Rime de gli academici occulti, 1568, p. [86].
• Rinaldi, Il mostruosissimo, 1588, p. [87].
• Ripa, Iconologia, &c., 1603, 1613, p. [92].
• Riviere, Nef des folz du monde, before 1500, p. [57].
• Rollenhagen, Les emblemes, 1611, p. [95];
  • Nucleus Emblematum, 1613, p. [97].
• Ruscelli, Discorso, 1556, p. [77];
  • Imprese illustri, 1566, p. [78].
• Rüxner, Turnier-buch, 1530, p. [68].
• 2. Rabie succensa, [356];
• Remember still thy ende, [320];
• Renovata juventus, [369];
• Res humanæ in summo declinant, [435];
• Respice et prospice, [139];
• Rompe ch’ il percote, [125];
• Rore madet vellus, Permansit arida tellus, [47];
• Rota vite que septima notatur, [407].
• 3. Rapin, History of England, 1724, p. [122].
• Real museo Borbonico, 1824, p. [19].
• Reusner, quoted:—
  • Circe, [251];
  • Hares and dead lion, [306];
  • Man a god to man, [283];
  • Orpheus and harp, [272];
  • Pegasus, [143];
  • Pelican and young, [394];
  • Phœnix, [385];
  • Prometheus, [268];
  • Serpent and countryman, [197];
  • Sirens, [252];
  • Swan, [215], [216];
  • Unicorn, [371].
• Roscoe, Leo X., [303].
• 4. Recapitulation and conclusions, [492]–495.
• References and coincidences not purely accidental, [494].
• References to passages from Shakespeare, in the order of the plays and poems, and to the corresponding devices and subjects of the Emblems, Appendix iii., [531–542].
• Rhetoric, chambers of, their pursuits and amusements, [81], [82];
  • Extent and nature, [82].
• Rich and poor, [Plate XVI.], [489].
• Rock in waves, Drummond, [125], [note].
• Romano, Julio, works known to Shakespeare, [110];
  • Where there are now works of his, [110], [111].
• Romano, Capitano Girolamo Mattei, [233].
• Rose and thorn, Whitney, Perriere, [333];
  • Vænius, [333];
  • Shakespeare, [334].
• Rubens, desciple of Vænius, [96].
• Rudolph II, [85], [89], [96].
• Ruins and writings, Whitney and Costalius, [444];
  • Shakespeare, [444], [445];
  • Boissard, [449].

S.