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