Transcriber’s Note: Minor errors in punctuation and formatting have been silently corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. The frequent appearance of blackletter font is noted here by enclosing the text in ‘~’ as ‘~blackletter text~’. Supercripted characters are preceded by ‘^’. Several sections of the text are titled using ornate illustrations (Preface, Table of Contents, Appendix), which are replaced in this version with plain text. See the transcriber's notes at the end of this text for the transcriptions of obsolete characters. The captions of the full-page illustrations have been indicated, moved slightly to appear at paragraph breaks. Where quoted passages appear in the images, they have been transcribed here, usually immediately following the [Illustration: ] markers. Footnotes have been resequenced to be unique across the text, and were moved to the end of each chapter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHAKESPEARE AND THE EMBLEM WRITERS. [Illustration] [Illustration: 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. PRECEDED BY A VIEW OF EMBLEM-LITERATURE DOWN TO A.D. 1616. BY HENRY GREEN, M.A. ~With numerous Illustrative Devices from the Original Authors.~ [Illustration: Portrait of Shakespeare. From the Oil Painting in the possession of Dr. Clay, of Manchester. ] LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1870. [_Right of Translation reserved._] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE