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SHAKESPEARE
AND
THE EMBLEM WRITERS.
LANGTON.Sc.MANcr
Portraits from Original Plates,—Bocchius by Bonasone, A.D. 1555; the others by Theodore de Bry, A.D. 1597.
Portrait of Shakespeare.
From the Oil Painting in the possession of Dr. Clay, of Manchester.
FEW only are the remarks absolutely needed byway of introduction to a work which withinitself sufficiently explains and carries out a newmethod of illustration for the dramas of Shakespeare.As author, I commenced this volume because ofvarious observations which, while reading several of the earlyEmblem writers, I had made on similarities of thought andexpression between themselves and the great Poet; and