CHAPTER II. SKETCH OF EMBLEM BOOK LITERATURE PREVIOUS TO A.D. 1616 30–104 Sect. 1. General Extent of the Emblem Literature 30–37 to which Shakespeare might have had Access ” 2. Emblem Works and Editions down to the end 38–59 of the Fifteenth Century ” 3. Other Emblem Works and Editions previous 60–83 to A.D. 1564 _i.e._ 1. Before Alciat’s first Emblem 60–68 Work, A.D. 1522 2. Down to Holbein, La Perriere, 69–75 and Corrozet, A.D. 1543 3. Down to Shakespeare’s birth, 75–83 A.D. 1564 Sect. 4. Emblem Works and Editions from A.D. 1564 84–104 to 1616 _i.e._ 1. Before Shakespeare had entered 84–92 fully on his Work, A.D. 1590 2. Until he had ended the 92–104 _Twelfth Night_ in 1615 CHAPTER III. SHAKESPEARE’S ATTAINMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES WITH 105–118 RESPECT TO THE FINE ARTS CHAPTER IV. THE KNOWLEDGE OF EMBLEM BOOKS IN BRITAIN, AND GENERAL 119–155 INDICATIONS THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH THEM CHAPTER V. SIX DIRECT REFERENCES IN THE _PERICLES_ TO BOOKS OF 156–186 EMBLEMS, SOME OF THEIR DEVICES DESCRIBED, AND OF THEIR MOTTOES QUOTED CHAPTER VI. CLASSIFICATION OF THE CORRESPONDENCIES AND PARALLELISMS 187–462 OF SHAKESPEARE WITH EMBLEM WRITERS Sect. 1. Historical Emblems 188–211 ” 2. Heraldic Emblems 212–240 ” 3. Emblems for Mythological Characters 241–301 ” 4. Emblems Illustrative of Fables 302–317 ” 5. Emblems in connection with Proverbs 318–345 ” 6. Emblems from Facts in Nature, and from 346–376 the Properties of Animals ” 7. Emblems for Poetic Ideas 377–410 ” 8. Moral and Æsthetic Emblems 411–462 CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS EMBLEMS, RECAPITULATION, AND CONCLUSION 463–496 APPENDICES. I. COINCIDENCES BETWEEN SHAKESPEARE AND WHITNEY 497–514 II. SUBJECTS, MOTTOES, AND SOURCES OF THE EMBLEM IMPRESE 515–530 III. REFERENCES TO PASSAGES FROM SHAKESPEARE, AND TO THE 531–542 CORRESPONDING DEVICES OF THE EMBLEMS TREATED OF