“He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies; you have not seen such a thing as ’tis.” And in the _Merry Wives of Windsor_ (act i. sc. 3, l. 64, vol. i. p. 177), Sir John Falstaff avers respecting Mistress Page and Mistress Ford,— “I will be cheaters to them both, and they shall be exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both.” Yet in agreement with the map of Sambucus, with the three capes prominent upon it, of Gibraltar Rock, the Cape of Good Hope, and that of Malacca, Shakespeare on other occasions ignores America and all its western neighbours. At the consultation by Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus, about the division of the Roman Empire (_Julius Cæsar_, act iv. sc. 1, l. 12, vol. vii. p. 384), Antony, on the exit of Lepidus, remarks,— “This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit, The three-fold world divided, he should stand One of the three to share it?” And when the camp of Octavius is near Alexandria (_Antony and Cleopatra_, act iv. sc. 6, l. 5, vol. ix. p. 109), and orders are issued to take Antony alive, Cæsar declares,— “The time of universal peace is near: Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook’d world Shall bear the olive freely.” _Plate 13_ [Illustration: _The Zodiac from a Title page - Brucioli 1543_] TRATTATO DELLA SPHERA, nel quale si dimoſtrano, & inſegnano i principii della aſtrologia raccolto da Giouanni di Sacrobuſto, & altri Aſtronomi, & tradotto in lingua Italiana. PER ANTONIO BRVCIOLI. ET CON NVOVE ANNOTA= rioni in piu luoghi dichiarato. In Ventia nel. D. M. XLIII. The Signs of the Zodiac, or, rather, the figures of the animals of which the zodiac is composed, were well known in Shakespeare’s time from various sources; and though they are Emblems, and have given name to at least one book of Emblems that was published in 1618,[154]—almost within the limits to which our inquiries are confined,—some may doubt whether they strictly belong to Emblem writers. Frequently, however, are they referred to in the dramas of which we are speaking; and, therefore, it is not out of place to exhibit a representation of them. This we do from the frontispiece or title page of an old Italian astronomical work by Antonio Brucioli (see Plate XIII.), who was banished from Florence for his opposition to the Medici, and whose brothers, in 1532, were printers in Venice. It is not pretended that Shakespeare was acquainted with this title page, but it supplies an appropriate illustration of several astronomical phenomena to which he alludes.