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Add _five_ to each number for the high- +resolution images.--> + +<body> + + +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hypnerotomachia, by Francesco Colonna + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Hypnerotomachia + The Strife of Loue in a Dreame + +Author: Francesco Colonna + +Translator: Robert Dallington + +Release Date: May 27, 2006 [EBook #18459] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HYPNEROTOMACHIA *** + + + + +Produced by Louise Hope, Robert Cicconetti and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class = "mynote"> +Transcriber’s Note:<br> +This text contains a few phrases in Greek, Hebrew and other languages, +with transliterations given where possisble: +<div class = "inset nospace"> +<span class = "greek" title = "Hebrew: Im lo ki habehema"> +אם לא כי הבהמה +</span><br> +<span class = "greek" title = "Greek: GUMNOS ÊN">ΓΥΜΝΟΣ ΗΝ</span> +</div> +A number of typographical errors have been corrected. They are +shown in the text with <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"like this">mouse-hover popups</ins>. Errors noted in the printed +Errata list are similarly <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author...">marked</ins>. The term “invisible” means +that the character or punctuation mark does not appear in the text, +but there is an appropriately sized blank space.<br> +Sidenote references (a, b, c...) are present or absent as in the +original.<br> +Larger problems in transcription, along with some technical points, are +addressed in the <a href = "#endnotes">endnotes</a> added by the +transcriber. +</div> + +<h4>NUMBER 87</h4> +<h1>THE ENGLISH<br> +EXPERIENCE</h1> + +<h5>ITS RECORD IN EARLY PRINTED BOOKS<br> +PUBLISHED IN FACSIMILE</h5> + +<p class = "chapter"> </p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/publogo.png" width = "56" height = "53" +alt = "interlaced ‘EE’"></p> + +<hr> + +<!--png 002--> + +<h3>(FRANCESCO COLONNA)</h3> + +<h1>HYPNEROTOMACHIA</h1> + +<h6>LONDON 1592</h6> + +<h5 class = "chapter">DA CAPO PRESS<br> +THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM LTD.<br> +AMSTERDAM 1969 NEW YORK</h5> + + +<hr> + +<!--png 003--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<h5>The publishers acknowledge their gratitude<br> +to the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford,<br> +for their permission to reproduce<br> +the Library’s copy.</h5> + +<h6>S.T.C. No.5577<br> +Collation: A-Z<sup>4</sup>, Aa-Cc<sup>4</sup></h6> + +<h5>Published in 1969 by<br> +Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd.,<br> +O. Z. Voorburgwal 85, Amsterdam<br> +&<br> +Da Capo Press</h5> + +<h6>· a division of Plenum Publishing Corporation ·</h6> + +<h5>227 West 17th Street, New York. 10011<br> +Printed in The Netherlands</h5> + +<hr> + + +<!--png 004--> +<span class = "folionum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "not printed on page">A</ins></span> + +<h3>HYPNEROTOMA-<br> +<i>CHIA.</i></h3 + +<h4 class = "nospace">THE</h4> +<h3 class = "nospace">Strife of Loue in a<br> +<i>Dreame.</i></h3> + + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/titlepage.jpg" width = "197" height = "305" +alt = "title page graphic: GNOSCE TE IPSUM / NE QUID NIMIS / LOVE AND LIVE"></p> + + + +<h5 class = "nospace">At London,</h5> +<h4 class = "nospace">Printed for Simon Waterson, and are</h4> +<h5 class = "nospace">to be sold at his shop, in S. Paules Church-<br> +<i>yard, at Cheape-gate.</i></h5> + +<h6><i>1592.</i></h6> + + +<hr> + +<!--png 005--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<h3 class = "nospace">TO THE THRISE HO-</h3> +<h5 class = "nospace">NOVRABLE AND EVER LY-<br> +VING VERTVES OF SYR <i>PHILLIP<br> +SYDNEY</i> KNIGHT; AND TO THE</h5> +<h6 class = "nospace">RIGHT HONORABLE AND OTHERS WHAT-<br> +SOEVER, WHO LIVING LOVED HIM,<br> +<i>AND BEING DEAD GIVE HIM</i><br> +<i>HIS DVE</i>.</h6> + + + + +<!--png 006--> +<span class = "folionum">A2</span> + +<table class = "decoration" summary = "decoration"> +<tr> +<td class = "a2"> </td> +</tr> +</table> + + + +<h3 class = "nospace">To the Right Honourable Robert</h3> +<h4 class = "nospace">Deuorax, Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount</h4> +<h5 class = "nospace">Hereford, and Bourghchier, Lorde Ferrers of +Chartley,<br> +Bourghchier and Louaine, Maister of the Queenes Maie-<br> +<i>sties Horse, and Knight of the most noble order of the +Garter:</i></h5> +<h6 class = "nospace">Is wished, the perfection of all happinesse, and +tryumphant<br> +felicitie in this life, and in the worlde<br> +to come.</h6> + + +<p> +<img src = "images/capW_2.jpg" align = "left" +width = "191" height = "192" alt = "W"> +<span class = "hidden">W</span>hen I had determined (Right honorable) to +dedicate this Booke, to the euerlyuing vertues of that matchlesse Knight +Syr <i>Phillip Sydney</i>; me thought that I could not finde out a more +Noble personage then your selfe, and more fit, to patronize, shield, and +defende my dutie to the deade, then your Honour, whose greatnes is such, +and vertues of that power, as who so commendeth them, deserueth not to +be accounted a flatterer, but he that doth not the same, may be thought +an +<!--png 007--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +euill willer. Hovv your Honor vvill accept hereof, I make no doubt, +because that curtesie attendeth vpon true nobilitie; but my humble +request is, that your Honor may not thinke of me (by the tytle of the +Booke,and some part of the discourse) as if I vvere amorous, and did +speake according to my ovvne passions, for I beeing restrained of my +liberty, and helde in the graue of obliuion, where I still as yet +remaine, oppressed with Melancholie, and wearied vvith deeper studies, I +vvas glad to beguile the time with these conceits, anothomising in them, +the vanitie of this life, and vncertaintie of the delights therof, in +the Dreame of <i>Poliphilus</i>; Which if it shall please your Honor at +conuenient leysure to looke ouer, pardoning what you finde amisse, and +weighing my good will, I shall thinke my selfe most happy.</p> + +<p>And thus I humbly take my leaue, vntill that I may present your +Honour, with a matter more fitting the same.</p> + + +<p align = "center"><i>Your Honors deuoted,</i></p> +<p align = "right">R. D.</p> + + + +<!--png 008--> +<span class = "folionum">A3</span> + +<p class = "illustration chapter"> +<img src = "images/dec_a3.png" width = "436" height = "65" +alt = "decoration"> +</p> + + +<h4> +<img src = "images/leaf.png" width = "38" height = "27" +alt = "leaf"> +Anonymi elegia ad Lec-<br> +<i>torem.</i></h4> + +<table summary = "centered text"> +<tr><td> +<div class = "versepair"> +Candide <em>Poliphilum</em> narrantem somnia Lector<br> +auscultes, summo somnia missa polo,</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Non operam perdes, non hæc audisse pigebit,<br> +tam varijs mirum rebus abundat opus.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Si grauis & tetricus contemnis erotica, rerum<br> +nosce precor seriem tam bene dispositam.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Abnuis? ac saltem stylus & noua lingua novusq;<br> +sermo grauis, sophia, se rogat aspicias.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Id quoq; sirenuis, geometrica cerne vetusta<br> +plurima milliacis disce referta notis.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Hic sunt Pyramides, thermæ, ingentesq; Colossi,<br> +ac Obeliscorum forma vetusta patet.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Hic diuersa basis fulget, variæque columnæ<br> +illarumq; arcus, Zophora, epistilia,</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Et capita atq; trabes, et cum quadrante coronæ<br> +symmetria, & quicquid tecta superba facit.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Hic regum cernes exculta palatia, cultus<br> +Nympharum, fontes, egregiasque epulas.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +<!--png 009--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Hinc bicolor chorea est latronum, expressaque tota<br> +in Laberintheis vita hominum tenebris.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Hinc lege de triplici quæ maiestate tonantis<br> +dicat, & in portis egerit ipse tribus.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +<em>Polia</em> qua fuerit forma, quam culta, tryumphos<br> +inde Iouis specta quatuor æthereos.</div> +<div class = "versepair"> +Hæc præter varios affectus narrat amoris,<br> +atque opera & quantum sæuiat ille Deus.</div> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<!--png 010--> +<span class = "folionum">//</span> + +<h4 class = "chapter"> +<img src = "images/leaf.png" width = "38" height = "27" +alt = "leaf">Faultes escaped in the printing.</h4> + +<div class = "mynote"> +“Fol.” (folio) refers to the numbered leaves of the printed book. The +“page” is the front/recto (1) or back/verso (2) of each +leaf.</div> + +<table class = "lines"> +<tr> +<td class = "center">Fol.</td> +<td class = "center">page.</td> +<td class = "center">line.</td> +<td>faults.</td> +<td>correction.</td> +<td class = "center">Fol.</td> +<td class = "center">page.</td> +<td class = "center">line.</td> +<td width = "16%">faultes.</td> +<td>correction.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "box center">1.</td> +<td class = "box center">2</td> +<td class = "box center">38</td> +<td class = "box">I begin of the</td> +<td class = "box">I began the</td> +<td class = "box center">21</td> +<td class = "box center">1</td> +<td class = "box center">38</td> +<td class = "box"><ins class = "mycorr" title = +"printed text has ‘sub-/vaging’ at line break">subuaging</ins>,</td> +<td class = "box">suruaighing</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "box center">4.</td> +<td class = "box center">2</td> +<td class = "box center">8</td> +<td class = "box">member.</td> +<td class = "box">members.</td> +<td class = "box center">21</td> +<td class = "box center">2</td> +<td class = "box center">2</td> +<td class = "box"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "printed text has ‘Sardins’">sardins</ins>,</td> +<td class = "box">sardius.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "box center">6.</td> +<td class = "box center">1</td> +<td class = "box center">12</td> +<td class = "box">troake,</td> +<td class = "box">trunke,</td> +<td class = "box center">22</td> +<td class = "box center">1</td> +<td class = "box center">7</td> +<td class = "box"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "printed text has ‘Vanubraces’">vanubraces</ins>,</td> +<td class = "box">vaumbraces.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "box center">6.</td> +<td class = "box center">2</td> +<td class = "box center">3</td> +<td class = "box">assured,</td> +<td class = "box">azur’d.</td> +<td class = "box center">22</td> +<td class = "box center">1</td> +<td class = "box center">12</td> +<td class = "box"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "printed text has ‘Coromie’">coronie</ins>,</td> +<td class = "box">coronice.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "box center">7.</td> +<td class = "box center">1</td> +<td class = "box center">33</td> +<td class = "box"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "printed text has ‘fying’">fiing</ins>,</td> +<td class = "box">flying.</td> +<td class = "box center">22</td> +<td class = "box center">2</td> +<td class = "box center">18</td> +<td class = "box">Daphus,</td> +<td class = "box">Daphne.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "box center">10</td> +<td class = "box center">1</td> +<td class = "box center">23</td> +<td class = "box"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "printed text has ‘laborinth’">Laborinth</ins>,</td> +<td class = "box">Laborinths.</td> +<td class = "box center">22</td> +<td class = "box center">1</td> +<td class = "box center">28</td> +<td class = "box">chanifered,</td> +<td class = "box">chamfered.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "box center">10</td> +<td class = "box center">2</td> +<td 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but a dreame, and but as +vanitie it<br> +<i>selfe. In the setting foorth whereof many things</i></h5> +<h6 class = "nospace">are figured worthie of remembrance.</h6> + +<p class = "intro">The Author beginneth his <em>Hypnerotomachia</em>, to +set downe the hower and time when in his sleepe it seemed to him that +hee was in a quiet solitarie desart, and vninhabited plaine, and from +thence afterward how he entered vnaduisedly before he was aware, with +great feare, into a darke obscure and vnfrequented wood.</p> + + +<h5>The discription of the morning.</h5> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +(a) <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in original">Phæbus</ins> the +Sunne.<br> +(b) Leucothea the morning.<br> +(c) Pyr & Eo, the horses of the Sunne. +</span> + +<img src = "images/capW_1.jpg" align = "left" +width = "141" height = "143" alt = "W"> +<span class = "hidden">W</span>hat houre as <i>Phœbus</i>(<i>a</i>) +issuing foorth, did bewtifie with brightnesse the forhead of +<i>Leucothea</i>(<i>b</i>), and appearing out of the Occean waues, not +fully shewing his turning wheeles, that had beene hung vp, but speedily +with his swift horses <i>Pyrous</i> & <i>Eous</i><ins class = +"mycorr" title = "missing from text">(<i>c</i>)</ins>, hastning his +course, and giuing a tincture to the Spiders webbes, among the greene +leaues and tender prickles of the Vermilion Roses, in the pursuite +whereof he shewed himselfe most swift & glistering, now vpon the +neuer resting and still moouing waues, he crysped vp his irradient +heyres. +</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +(d) Horison a circle deuiding the halfe <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original">speare</ins> of the firmament from the other halfe +which we doe not see.<br> +(e) <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in original">Hemispere</ins> is +halfe the compasse of the visible heauen. +</span> +Vppon whose vprising, euen at that instant, the vnhorned Moone +dismounted hir selfe, losing from hir Chariot hir two horses, the one +white and the other browne, and drewe to the Horrison(<i>d</i>) +different from the Hemisphere(<i>e</i>) from whence she came.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And when as the mountaines and hilles were beautifull, and the northeast +winds had left of to make barraine with the sharpnesse of their blasts, +the tender sprigs to disquiet the moouing +<!--png 013--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +reedes, the fenny Bulrush, and weake Cyprus, to torment the foulding +Vines, to trouble the bending Willowe, and to breake downe the brittle +Firre bowghes, vnder the hornes of the lasciuious Bull, as they do in +winter.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +(f) Hyperion the Sunne.<br> +(g) Halcyons are certaine byrds which building near the shore vpon the +waues there will be no storme vntill the young be hatched.<br> +(h) Leander a young man of Abydos, who in swimming ouer Hellespont +(a narow <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘sea) ’">sea +</ins>by Byzantium, which parteth Europ from Asia) to Sestus, was in the +sight of his louer Ero of Sestus drowned, which she seeing, threw hir +self down into the sea, and died with him. +</span> +<!----> +At that very houre, as the diuers coulered flowers and greene meades, at +the comming of the sunne of <i>Hypperion</i>(<i>f</i>) feare not his +burning heate, being bedued and sprinkled with the Christalline teares +of the sweete morning, when as the <i>Halcyons</i>(<i>g</i>) vpon the +leuell waues of the stil, calme, and quiet flowing seas, do build their +nests in sight of the sandie shore, whereas the sorrowfull <i>Ero</i>, +with scalding sighes did behold the dolorous and vngrate departure of +hir swimming <i>Leander</i>(<i>h</i>).</p> + +<p class = "main"> +I lying vpon my bed, an oportune and meet freend to a wearie body, no +creature accompaning me in my chamber, besides the attender vppon my +body, and vsuall night lights, who after that she had vsed diuers +speeches, to the end shee might comfort me, hauing vnderstood before of +me, the originall cause of my hollow and deepe sighes, she indeuored hir +best to moderate, if at least she might, that, my perturbed and +pittifull estate. But when she sawe that I was desirous of sleepe, she +tooke leaue to depart.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then I being left alone to the high cogitations of loue, hauing passed +ouer a long and tedious night without sleepe, through my barren fortune, +and aduerse constellation, altogether vncomforted and sorrowfull, by +means of my vntimely and not prosperous loue, weeping, I recounted from +point to point, what a thing vnequall loue is: and how fitly one may +loue that dooth not loue: and what defence there may bee made against +the vnaccustomed, yet dayly assaults of loue: for a naked soule +altogether vnarmed, the seditious strife, especially being intestine: a +fresh still setting vpon with vnstable and new thoughts.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In this sort brought to so miserable an estate, and for a long while +plunged in a deepe poole of bitter sorrowes, at length my wandring +sences being wearie to feede still vpon vnsauorie and fayned pleasure, +but directly and without deceit, vppon the rare diuine obiect: whose +reuerende <i>Idea</i> is deeply imprinted within me, and liueth ingrauen +in the secret of my heart, from which proceedeth this so great and +vncessant a strife, continually renuing my cruell torments without +intermission. <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘I begin of the’">I began the</ins> conditions +of those miserable louers, who for their mistresses pleasures +<!--png 014--> +<span class = "pagenum">2</span> +<span class = "folionum">B2</span> +desire their owne deaths, and in their best delights do think themselues +most vnhappie, feeding their framed passions not otherwise then with +fithfull imaginations. And then as a weary bodye after a sore labour, so +I, somewhat in outward shew qualified, in the payne of my sorrowfull +thoughts, and hauing incloystered and shut vp the course of my +distilling teares: whose drops had watered my pale cheekes, thorow +amorous griefe, desired some needfull rest.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At length my moyst eyes being closed within their bloudshotten and +reddish liddes, presently betwixt a bitter life and a sweet death, I was +in them inuaded and ouercome, with a heauie sleepe, who with my minde +and watchfull spirits, were no pertakers of so high an operation.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Me thought that I was in a large, plaine, and champion place, all greene +and diuersly spotted with many sorted flowerrs, wherby it seemed +passingly adorned. In which by reason of the milde and gentle ayre, +there was a still quyet whisht: Inso much that my attentiue eares did +heare no noyse, neither did any framed speech peirce into them, but with +the gratious beames of the sunne, the sliding time passed.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In which place with a fearefull admiration, looking about me, I sayd +thus to my selfe. Heere appeareth no humaine creature to my sight, nor +syluã beast, flying bird, coũtrey house, field tent, or shepheards cote: +neyther vpon the gras could I perceiue feeding eyther flock of sheep, or +heard of cattell, or rustike herdman with Oten pipe making pastorall +melodie, but onely taking the benefit of the place, and quietnesse of +the plaine, which assured mee to be without feare, I directed my course +still forward, regarding on eyther side the tender leaues and thick +grasse, which rested vnstirred, without the beholding of any motion.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At length my ignorant sleepes, brought me into a thick wood, whereinto +being a pritty way entred, I could not tell how to get out of it. +Wherevpon, a soddaine feare inuaded my hart, and diffused it selfe into +euery ioynt, so that my couler began to waxe pale, and the rather by +reason that I was alone, and vnarmed, and could not finde any track or +path, eyther to direct me forward, or lead me back againe. But a darke +wood of thicke bushes, sharpe thornes, tall ashes haled of the Viper, +towgh Elmes beloued of the fruitfull vines, harde Ebony, strong Okes, +soft Beeche, and +<!--png 015--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +browne Hasils, who intertaining one anothers branches, with a naturall +goodwill opposed themselues, to resist the entrance of the gratious +sunne shine, with the greene couerture of their innumerable leaues. And +in this sort I found my selfe in a fresh shadowe, a coole ayre, and a +solytarie thicket.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +VVherevpon my reason perswaded me to beleeue, that this vast wood, was +onely a receptacle for sauage and hurtfull beasts, as the tusked +Bore,the furious and bloudthirstie Beare, the hissing serpent, and +inuading VVoolfe, against which I was vnprouided to make resistance, but +rayther as a praye sent amongst them, miserablie to haue my flesh and +bones rent and gnawne in peeces.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Minotaurus a monster in Creete, born of Pasiphae which being inclosed in +the laborinth fed on mans flesh, whome Theseus slew and got out of the +laborinth by a clew of thred giuen by Ariadne king Minoes daughter, +after wife to Theseus, who did forsake hir, and left hir in a +disinhabited Ile, notwithstanding that she had saued his life.</span> +<!----> +And thus forecasting the woorst that might follow, I was resolued not to +abide there, but to seeke to get out, that I might the better eschew +such suspected occurrents, and taking my selfe to my feete, I wandred +now this way, now that way, sometime to the right hand, sometime to the +left: nowe forwarde, then backe againe, not knowing how to goe among the +thicke bowghes and tearing thornes, bearing vpon my face: rending my +clothes, and houlding me sometimes hanging in them, whereby my hast in +getting foorth was much hyndered. In this vnaccustomed labour: and +without any helpe but onely the keeping of the sunne still vpon one +side, to direct mee streight forwarde: I grewe extreamely hoate and +faynte, not knowing what to doe, but onely in a wearye body, to conteine +a minde distraught through troublesome thoughts, breathing out hollow +and deepe sighes, desiring helpe of the pittifull <i>Cretensian +Ariadne</i>, who for the destroying of hir monstrous brother the +<i>Mynotaur</i>(<i>A</i>) gaue vnto the deceitfull <i>Theseus</i> a clew +of thred, to conduct him foorth of the intricate laborinth, that I also +by some such meanes might be deliuered out of this obscure wood.</p> + + + + +<p class = "illustration chapter bodytext"> +<!--png 016--> +<span class = "pagenum">3</span> +<span class = "folionum">B3</span> +<img src = "images/pic_3r.jpg" width = "462" height = "370" +alt = "Poliphilus asleep"></p> + + +<p class = "intro"> +Poliphilus being thus distempered in this daungerous and obscure wood, +at length getteth foorth, and being come to a faire Riuer, indeuoring to +rest himselfe and coole his heate, he heard a most delightful harmonie, +which made him forget to drinke, and followe after the voice, which +brought him to a woorse perplexitie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capF.jpg" align = "left" +width = "171" height = "174" alt = "F"> +<span class = "hidden">F</span>eare and desire of freedome thus +occupying my sences, my vnderstanding was blinded, neyther did I knowe +whether it were better for mee eyther to wishe for hated death, or in so +dreadfull a place to hope for desired life. Thus euery way discontent, I +did indeuour, with all force and diligence to get foorth, wherin the +more I did striue the more I found my selfe intangled, and +<!--png 017--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +so infeebled with wearinesse, that on euery side I feared, when some +cruell beast should come and deuoure me, or els vnawares to tumble downe +into some deepe pit or hollow place.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Wherefore more trembling then in mustulent <i>Autume</i> be the yealow +coulored leaue, hauing left their moisture, being thorowlye searched +with the furious north winde, I lifted vp my hart to God, desiring as +<i>Achemenides</i> being afraide of the horrible <i>Cyclops</i> rather +to be slaine by the hands of <i>Aeneas</i> his enemie, rather then to +suffer so odious a death.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And my deuoute prayer, sincerely vnited to a contrite heart, powring out +a fountaine of teares with a stedfast beliefe to be deliuered. I found +my selfe in a short space gotten at libertie, like a new day crept out +of a darke and tempestuous night. My eyes before vsed to such obumbrated +darkenes, could scarse abide to behould the light, thorow watery sadnes. +Neuerthelesse glad I was to see the light: as one set at libertie, that +had beene chayned vp in a deepe dungeon and obscure darkenesse. Verye +thirstie I was, my clothes torne, my face and hands scratched and +netteled, and withall so extreamely set on heate, as the fresh ayre +seemed to doe me more hurt then good, neither did it any waye ease my +body, desirous to keepe his new recouered scope and libertie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And after that I had a little rowsed vp my mynde, and sommoned together +my sences in some better sort: I sought a meanes to quench my inordinate +thyrst, procured and increased through innumerable sighes, and extreame +labour of body. Thus casting my eyes with a diligent regarde about the +plaine, to finde some Fountaine whereat I might refresh my selfe: a +pleasant spring or head of water, did offer it selfe vnto me, with a +great vayne boyling vp, about the which did growe diuers sweet hearbes +and water flowers, and from the same did flowe a cleare and chrystalline +current streame, which deuided into diuers branches, ran thorow the +desart wood, with a turning and winding body, receyuing into it other +little channels, vnlading themselues.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In whose courses the stones lift vp by nature, and trunkes of trees +denyed any longer by their roots to be vpholden, did cause a stopping +hinderance to their current and whuzing fall, which still augmented by +other vndissonant torrents, from high and fertlesse mountaines in the +plaine, shewed a beautifull brightnes and soft passing course, to the +which short windedly comming, by +<!--png 018--> +<span class = "pagenum">4</span> +meanes of my fearefull flight. I did see a little obscure light, thorow +the tops of the high trees, somewhat deuiding themselues ouer the water, +and with the rest of their bodyes and branches, as it were seperating +the heauens from my lifted vp eyes. A horrible place to be in, +vnaccompanyed of any creature.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And suddainly hearing the fall of trees, through the force of a +whyrlewinde, & noise of the broken bowghes, with a redoubled and +hoarse sound a farre of, and yet brought to the eccho of the water +thorow the thick wood, I grew into a new astonishment.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And at this instant thus terrified and afflycted, and yet without any +receiued hurt, being vpon my knees bowed downe, and inclosing the +hollownesse of my hand, therewith determined to make me a necessary +drinking vessel: I had no sooner put the same into the water, offring to +my mouth the long desired moysture, thereby to refrygerate and coole the +extreame heate of my burning heart, which at that time would haue beene +more acceptable vnto me, then eyther <i>Hypanis</i> and <i>Ganges</i> be +to the <i>Indians</i>, <i>Tigris</i> or <i>Euphrates</i> to the +<i>Armenians</i>, or <i>Xeylus</i> to the <i>Aethiopian</i> nation, or +to the <i>Egyptians</i> his innundation, inbybing theyr burnt and rosted +mould, or yet the riuer <i>Po</i> to the <i>Ligurians</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Euen then also it fell so out, that I had no sooner taken water into the +palme of my hand, offering the same to my open mouth, ready to receiue +it: I heard a doricall songe, wherewith I was as greatly delighted, as +if I had heard the Thracian <i>Thamiras</i>, which thorough my eares +presented it selfe to my vnquiet heart, with so sweete and delectable a +deliuerie, with a voyce not terrestriall, with so great a harmonie and +incredible a fayning shrilnesse, and vnusuall proportion, as is possible +to bee imagined by no tounge sufficiently to be commended. The sweetnes +whereof so greatly delighted me, as thereby I was rauished of my +remembrance, and my vnderstanding so taken from me, as I let fall my +desired water thorough the loosned ioynts of my feeble hands.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And then euen as a birde, which through the sweetnes of the call +forgetteth to remember the Fowlers deceit, so I letting slip that which +nature stood in need of, hastened my selfe back with all speed, towarde +that attractiue melodie, which the more I coasted, the further it seemed +still from me, sometime heere, sometimes there, and still as I shifted +places, so the same also chaunged with a delectable voyce and heauenly +consent. Thus vainly running +<!--png 019--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +vp and downe, I knew not after what, I grew more wearie, faint, and +drye, and so feeble, that my legges could but with great paine, vphould +my distempered body. And my grieued spirits vnabled long to support the +same, what with the feare that I had bin in, what with extreame thirst, +what with long and wilesome trauell, and what with doubting the worst +that might insue. Thus hote, faint, and drye: I knew not what to do but +euen to procure rest for my weary <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘member’">members</ins>. I marueled first at +this straunge accedent, and was amazed at this inhumane harmonye, but +most of all in that I was in a straunge contry, and vninhabited, being +onelye fertill and beawtyfull to behould, besydes that I greatly +sorrowed for the losse of the fayer ryuer which I had so greatly labored +to finde out, and now so lightly and carelesly to haue lost the benefit +thereof. In this sort I was houlden in an intrycate minde of doubts, at +length ouercome withall kinde of greefes, my whole bodye trembling and +languishinge vnder a broade and mightye Oke full of Acornes, standing in +the middest of a spatious and large green meade, extending forth his +thicke and leauie armes to make a coole shadowe, vnder whose bodye +breathing I rested my selfe vppon the deawye hearbes, and lying vppon my +left syde I drewe my breath in the freshe ayre more shortly betwixt my +drye and wrinckled lips, then the weary running heart, pinched in the +haunche and struck in the brest, not able any longer to beare vp his +weighty head, or sustaine his body vpon his bowing knees, but dying +prostrates himselfe. And lying thus in such an agonie, I thought vpon +the strifes of weake fortune, and the inchauntments of the malicious +<i>Cyrces</i>, as if I had by hir charmes and quadranguled plaints, been +bereaued of my sences. In these such so great & exceeding doubts: O +<i>hi me</i> where might I there among so many dyuerse and sundry sorts +of hearbes, finde the <i>Mercurial Moli</i> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Moly an herb greatly commended of Homer, and thought to be souereigne +against inchauntments of moderne authors altogether vnknowne.<br> +<!----> +(a) Hypsipile was daughter to Thaos king of Lemnos, who alone when all +women of that Iland had slaine their husbands & kinsmen, saued hir +father: she also shewed the Grecians the fountaine Langia in the wood of +Nemea in Achaia where Hercules slue a lion.<br> +<!----> +(b) Dipsa a kind of snakes that Lucan mentioneth, whose byting procureth +extreame drynes or thirste.</span> +<!----> +with his blacke roote, for my helpe and remedie. Againe me thought that +it was not so with me. What then? euen a hard appoyntment to delay my +desired death. And thus remayning in these pernitious thoughts, my +strength debylitated: I looked for no other helpe, but to drawe and +receiue fresh ayre into that brest, which panted with a small remainder +of vytall warmnesse, taking into my hands halfe aliue, as my last +refuge, the moyst and bedewed leaues, preserued in the coole shadow of +the greene Oke: putting the same to my pale and drye lippes, with a +<!--png 020--> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘9’">5</ins></span> +<span class = "folionum">C</span> +greedy desire in licking of them to satisfie my distempred mouth with +theyr moisture, wishing for such a wel as <i>Hypsipyle</i>(<i>a</i>) +shewed the Grecians: Fearing least that vnawares as I had russled in the +wood I were bitten with the serpent <i>Dipsa</i>(<i>b</i>) my thirst was +so vnsupportable. Then renuing my oulde cogitations: as <i>I</i> lay +vnder this mightie Oke: I was oppressed with emynent sleepe ouer all my +members: where againe I dreamed in this sorte. +</p> + +<p class = "intro">Poliphilus sheweth, that he thought he did sleep +againe, and in his dreame thas he was in a Vallie, inuironed with +mountaines and hilles, the end whereof was shut vp in a maruellous sort, +with a mightie pyramides worthie of admiration: vpon the top whereof was +a high obeliske, which with great pleasure hee beheld, and diligently +discribeth.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capG.jpg" align = "left" +width = "196" height = "190" alt = "G"> +<span class = "hidden">G</span>otten foorth of this fearefull and thick +wood, and forgetting the forementioned places by this sweete sleepe, +occasioned by my wearie members nowe layde along: mee thought that I was +in a new more delectable place, far excelling the former, which +consisted not of fertles mountaines and craggie winding rockes, +contayning wide caues, but being a delicate valley, in the which did +rise a small mounting of no great height, sprinkled heare and there with +young Okes, Ashes, Palme trees broadleaued, <i>Aesculies</i>,(<i>a</i>) +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +(a) Aesculus is a tree bearing both greater fruite and broder leaues +then the Oke.<br> +<!----> +(b) Gemista beareth a cod and yellowe flower, vines are bound therewith. +Elaphium is like to Angelica, but not in smell, the hart thereon rubbeth +his head when it is veluet.</span> +<!----> +Holme, Chestnut, Sugerchist, Poplars, wilde Oliue, and Oppies disposed +some hyer then other, according to the mounting or fall of the place, in +the plaine whereof was an other kinde of thicket of medicinable simples +like little young trees, as the flowering <i>Genista</i>(<i>b</i>) +enuironed with diuers green hearbs, Tetrifolie, Sheere grasse, +hunnisuckle, the musked Angelica, Crowfoot Elapium and Rugwoort, with +other profitable and vnknowne hearbes and flowers heare and there +diuerslie disposed. A little beyond in the same valley, I founde a +sandie or grauelly plaine, yet bespotted with greene tuffes, in which +place grew a faire Palme tree with his leaues like the Culter of a +plowe, and abounding with sweet and pleasant fruite, some set high, some +lowe, some in a meane, some +<!--png 021--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +in the very top, an elect and chosen signe of victorie. Neither in this +place was there any habitation or creature whatsoeuer. Thus walking +solitarily betwixt the trees, growing distantly one from another, I +perswaded my selfe, that to this no earthly situation was comparable: in +which thought I soddainely espied vpon my left hand, an hungrie and +carniuorous Woolfe, gaping vpon me with open mouthe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At the sight whereof immediatly, my hayre stood right vp, and I would +haue cryed out, but could not: and presently the Woolfe ranne away: +wherevpon returning to my selfe, and casting my eyes towards the wooddie +mountaines, which seemed to ioyne themselues together, beeing looked +vnto a farre off, I sawe the forme of a tower of an incredible heygth, +with a spyre vnperfectlie appearing, all being of very auncient forme +and workemanship.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +(a) Olimpus a hil in Greece between Macedonie and Thesalie, so high, +that of the Poets it is sometime taken for heauen.<br> +<!----> +(<ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘d’">b</ins>) Caucasus a +mightie hill in Asia which parteth India from Scythia.<br> +<!----> +(c) Cillenus a hill of Arcadia, where Iupiter begat Mercurie vpon +Maia.</span> +<!----> +And drawing neare vnto this building, I beheld the gratious mountaines +before a farre of seeming small, by comming neerer and neerer, by little +and little, to lift vp themselues more and more, at the first seeming to +mee that they had ioyned together with the building which was an +inclosure or end of the valley betwixt mountaine and mountaine: which +thing I thought worthy the noting, and without further delay I addressed +my selfe more neerer therevnto. And by how much the more I approximated +the same, by so much the more the excellencie of the woorke shewed it +selfe, increasing my desire to behould the same. For there appeared no +longer a substance of vnknowne forme, but a rare Obelisk vpon a vast +frame and stonie foundation, the heigth whereof without comparison did +exceed the toppes of the sidelying mountaynes, although I thought that +they had beene the renowmed <i>Olympus</i>(<i>a</i>), the famous +<i>Caucasus</i>(<i>b</i>), and not inferior to +<i>Cyllenus</i>(<i>c</i>).</p> + +<p class = "main"> +To this sollitarie place thus desiredlye comming, with vnspeakeable +delight, at pleasure I behelde the straunge manner of the arte, the +hugenesse of the frame, and the woonderfull excellencie of the +woorkmanship. Maruelling and considering the compasse and largenesse of +this broken and decayed obiect, made of the pure glistering marble of +<i>Paros</i>(<i>d</i>). +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +(d) Paros is one of the 35. Isles called Cyclades and Sporades, in the +sea Aegeum which deuideth Europ from Asia.</span> +<!----> +The squared stones ioyned togither without anye cement, and the pointed +quadrangulate corner stones streightlye fitted and smoothlye +<!--png 022--> +<span class = "pagenum">6</span> +<span class = "folionum">C2</span> +pullished, the edges whereof were of an exquisite vermellion coulour, as +is possible to bee deuised: and so iust set, as betwixt the ioynts, euen +the enemie to the woorke (if euer there were anye) could not deuise +to hide the point of the smallest spanish needle vsed of the best +workewomen. And there in this so noble a piece of worke, I found a +proportioned substance to euery shape and likenesse that can be thought +vpon and called to remembrance, partly decayed, and some still whole +remaining, with pillers small vpon great, with their excellent heads of +an exact and most perfect closing, crowned battelments, embost caruings, +bearing forth like embroderie, arched beames, mightie mettaline images, +ouerthrowne and broken in sunder, the <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘troake’">trunke</ins> of their exact and +perfect members, appearing hollow of brasse. Skyffes, small boates and +vessels of <i>Numidian</i> stone and <i>Porphyr</i>, and diuers +couloured marble. Great lauers condites, and other infinite fragments of +notable woorkmanship, far different and inferiour from that they were, +in their perfection, but now brought back as it were to their first +vnshapelines, being fallen and cast downe, some heere, some there, vpon +the earth from the which they were taken. Among the broken and decayed +places, wherof great sundrie wall weeds and hearbes, especially the +vnshaking Anagyre, the Lentise of both kindes, beares foote, dogges +head, Gladen greene, spotted Iuie, Centarie, and diuers suchlike. And in +the myldered places of broken walles grew Howslike, and the hanging +Cymbalaria bryers, and pricking brambles, among the which crept Swifts +and Lyzarts which I sawe crawling among the ouergrowne stones, which at +the first sight in this silent and solitarie place, made me to be warily +afraid of them. On euery side there lay fallen downe smoothe round +pieces of serpent spotted Marble, purple and red diuerse couloured. +Fragments of strange histories, <i>Panglyphic</i> and <i>Hemygliphic</i> +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Panglyphic be wholy carued from the head to the foote in all members. +Hemigliphic apeare but halfe.</span> +<!----> +compendiously caracterized, shewing the excellencie thereof, vndoubtedly +accusing our age, that the perfection of such an art is forgotten.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then comming to the myddle fronture of the great and excellent woorke, I +sawe one sole large and marueylous porche worthy of great estimation, +proportioned according to the huge quantitie of the rest of the whole +work, which was placed betwixt and continued in building from the one +and the other of the mountaines hare lipped, and aboue arched, whose +space betwixt +<!--png 023--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +as I doe coniecture was in measure sixe furlongs, and twelue paces. The +top of which mountaines were perpendicularly equall eyther of them +touching the <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘assured’">azur’d</ins> +skey. At the sight whereof I imagined with my +selfe and deuised to thinke with what yron instruments, with what labour +of mens hands, and number of workmen, such a piece of woorke could bee +by great strength framed, with much paine layde together, and a long +time in finishing. There then this woonderfull frame willingly as it +were ioyned hands and vnited it selfe with the one and the other mightie +mountaines, by meanes whereof, the foresaid valley there had an end, +that no man could go further forward or backe againe, but to enter in by +this broade, large, and wide open porche.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon this massie frame and mightie woorkmanship, which I take to be in +heigth from the roofe or top to the foote, fiue parts of a furlong, was +placed a high and woonderfull Pyramides, after the fashion of a square +poynted Diamond, and such incredible workemanship that could neuer be +deuised and erected, without inestimable charge, great helpe, and long +time. So that I thought the excellencie thereof vnthought vpon, to bee a +myrrour, the sight whereof was able to dasell any humaine eyes, and +quaile the rest of the spirituall sences. VVhat shall I say more? for so +far as the reache of my capacitie will afoorde me leaue, in this sort I +briefely describe the same.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Euery side or quarter of this foure squared frame, wherevpon the foote +of the Pyramides did stand, did extend themselues in length six +furlongs, +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +A furlong is 16. pole euery pole being 16 foote.</span> +<!----> +which in compasse about euery side æquilatered of like bredth, dooth +multiplie to 24 furlongs. Then lifting vp the lynes on high from the +foure corners, so much as euerye corner is distant in length from +another, meeting in the top, so as the Perpendicular line may fall iust +vpon the center of the Dyagon, stretching from both corners of the +plynts or square foote, iust and conueniently ioyned together doe make a +perfect pyramidall figure. VVhich immence and woonderfull forme, with a +maruelous and exquise Symmetrie and due proportion mounting vp +laboursomly foote by foote, conteyned 1410. degrees or steppes, taking +away 10. degrees to make vp the head and gracilament of the Pyramides in +whose place was set a huge Cube or foure square stone of forme like a +dye, sound and firme of a monstrous thicknesse and incredible weight to +bee carryed so high. +<!--png 024--> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘11’">7</ins></span> +<span class = "folionum">C3</span> +And of the same stone of <i>Paros</i> as were the steps: which cube and +square stone was the Basis and foote set vnder the Obilisk, which I haue +in hand to describe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This mightie big stone sharpe topt, sliding downe the extream part from +corner to corner, flat sided by the Diameter, was fower paces, at euery +equall distant corner, whereof was the foote of a harpie of moulten +mettall, their steales and clawes armed. Firmlye and stronglie set in +with led, in euery corner of the Cube, or foure square head of the +Pyramides, meeting together ouer the Diagonike line. Of proportioned +thicknesse in heigth two paces. Which thus closing and mette together, +made the socket of the great Obelisk: which Socket was beautified with +leaues, fruites and flowers, of shining cast mettall, and of conuenient +bignesse. VVherevpon the weight of the Obelisk was borne. The breadth +whereof was two paces, and seauen in heigth, artificiously sharping of +the stone of <i>Thebais</i> called <i>Pyrus</i>. Vpon the smooth plains +whereof, pure and bright shining as a looking glasse, were moste +excellently cut <i>Aegiptian Hyerogliphs</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the pointe of which Obelisk, with great arte and diligence, was +fastned a copper base, in the which also there was a turning deuise +infixed: whervpon did stand the shape of a beautifull nimph framed of +the aforesayd matter, able to amaze the continuall diligent behoulder. +Of such a proportion as the common stature might be considered and +perfectly seene, notwithstanding the exceeding heigth thereof in the +ayre. Besides the greatnesse of the figure or image: it was a woonder to +thinke how such a weight should bee carryed and set in such a place and +so high. Couered with a habite blowne abroad with the winde, and shewing +parte of the naked substance of the legges and thighes: with two wings +growing out from the shoulder blades, and spred abroad as if shee were +readye to flye, turning hir fayre face and sweete regarding countenance +towardes hir wings. The tresses of hir haire <ins class = "edcorr" title += "corrected by author from ‘fying’">flying</ins> abroade the vpper part +or crowne naked and bare. In hir right hand she held from hir sight a +copie or horne stuft full of many good things, stopped vp, and the mouth +downewarde, hir left hand fastned and harde holden to hir naked brest. +This Image and stature was with euery blast of wind turned, and mooued +about with such a noyse and tinkling in the hollownes of the metaline +deuise: as if the mynte of the Queene of England had +<!--png 025--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +being going there. And when the foote of the phane or Image in turning +about, did rub and grinde vpon the copper base, fixed vpon the pointe of +the Obeliske, it gaue such a sound, as if the tower bell of Saint Iohns +Colledge in the famous Vniuersitie of Cambridge had beene rung: or that +in the pompeous Batches of the mightie <i>Hadrian</i>: or that in the +fift Pyramides standing vpon foure. This Obeliske in my iudgement was +such, as neyther that in the <i>Vaticane</i> in <i>Alexandria</i> or +Babilon, may bee equally compared vnto it, but rather esteemed far +inferiour. It conteined in it such a heape of woonders, as I could not +without great astonishment looke vpon it. As also consider the hugenesse +of the worke, the excessiue sumptuousnesse, the straunge inuention, the +rare performance, and exquisite diligence of the woorkeman. With what +art inuented? with what power, humaine force, and incredible meanes, +enuying (if I may speake it) the workmanship of the heauens, such and so +mightie weights should be transported and carryed into the skyes? with +what Cranes, winding beames, Trocles, round pullies, Capres bearing out +deuices, and Poliplasies, and drawing frames, and roped tryces, therein +being vnskilfull, I slip it ouer with silence.</p> + +<p class = "quotation"> +And heere on the other side followeth the figure.</p> + + +<p class = "illustration"> +<!--png 026--> +<span class = "pagenum">8</span> +<img src = "images/page_8r.jpg" width = "367" height = "571" +alt = "pyramidal building"></p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 027--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Let vs returne then to the huge Pyramides, standing vpon a strong and +sound plynth or foure square foote, fourteene paces in heigth, and in +length sixe furlongs, which was the foundation and bottom of the +weightie pyramides, which I perswaded my selfe was not brought from any +other place, but euen with plaine labour and workemanship hewen out of +the selfe same mountaines, and reduced to this figure and proportion in +his owne proper place.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which great quadrant and square woorke, ioyned not fast to the +collaterate and sidelying rockes, but was betwixt spaced and seperated +on eyther sides tenne paces. Vpon the right hand as I went of the +aforesaid plynth or square sheame, there was most perfectly carued the +vyperous head of the fearefull <i>Medusa</i>, in a most furious and +rigorous forme to looke vpon, and as it were yelling out: with terrible +eyes cauernate, and hollow skowling vnder ther ouerhanging browes with a +wrympled and forrowed forehead and gaping wide open mouth, which being +hollowed with a dyrect waye from the Catill, and vppon stone by a +mediane lyne perpendicular to the center of the far shewing Pyramides, +made a large enterance and cõming vnto it, at which opening mouth, +compassed with fowlded haires of vnrepartable curiousnes artificiall +cunning and costly woorkmanshyppe <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: ‘then’?">the</ins> +assending the turning stayers shewed them +selues, and instead of tresses of haire platted with laces, I saw +fearefull vypers and winding serpents growing out from the scalpe of the +monstrous head confusedly twysting together and hissing, so liuely +portrayed and set foorth, that they made me afrayde to behould them. In +their eyes were placed most shining stones, in such sort, as if I had +not beene perswaded and knowne that they were stones indeed, I durst not +haue drawne neere them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the aforesayde entrie cut out of the firme stone, led to the scale +and compassing passage in the center, with winding steps tending to the +highest parte of the stately Pyramides, and opening vpon the outside of +the catill or cube: vpon the which the shining obeliske was founded. And +among the rest of such notable partes that I beheld, me thought that +this deuise was woorth the noting, because the artifitious and most +cunning architect with an exquisite and perspicuous inuention, had made +to the stayres certaine loopes or small windowes, imbracing the +bountifull +<!--png 028--> +<span class = "pagenum">9</span> +<span class = "folionum">D</span> +beames of the sunne correspondently on three parts, the lower, the +middle, and supreame: The lower taking light from the higher, and the +higher from the catabasse or lower with their opposite reflexions +shewing a maruellous faire light, they were so fitly disposed by the +calculate rule of the artificious Mathematrician, to the Orientall +Meridionall and Occidentall partes of the ayre, that euery houre of the +day the sunne shined in, and gaue light to the whole scale, the same +loopes or windolets in diuerse places symmetrially and definitely +dispersed and set.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +To the aforesaid entrance thorow the open mouth of <i>Medusa</i>, I came +by a long gallorie to a salying scale or downe going staire opening at +the foot and pauement of the building vpon my right hand against one of +the collaterall and side-lying mountaines, betwixt which there was out +of the stone and open space cut out of tenne paces vp, into the which I +ascended boldely without resistance, and being come to the beginning of +the staire in the aforesaid mouth by innumerable steppes and degrees, +not without great wearines and disinesse of head, by often turning +about, I came to so incredible a height, that my eies would not suffer +me to looke downe to the ground insomuch, that me thought that euery +thing below vpon the plaine had lost his shape, and seemed vnperfect. In +the opening and comming out of this circulate and turning assence many +pillars of fused and molten mettall were aptly disposed and surely +fixed: the inter-space betwixt euery one and other one foote, and in +height halfe a pase, railed and ioyned togither aboue with a battelled +coronet al along the said pillar, and of the same metall compassing +about the opening of the staire, lest that any comming foorth vnawares +should fall downe headlong, For the immesurable height thereof woulde +cause a giddines in the head, and bring a staggering to the feete: vpon +the plaine of the obeliske there was infixed a table of brasse fastened +and soldered in about the height of a man, with an ancient inscription +in Latine, Greeke, and Arabike, by the which I plainely vnderstoode that +the same was dedicated to the Sunne, and the measure of the work wholy +set downe and described, the name of the Architector noted on the +obeliske in Greek letters.</p> + +<p class = "center bodytext"> +<span class = "greek" title = "LICHA SOLIBIKOS LIOODOMOS ÔRTHOSEN +ME">ΛΙΧΑ ΣΟΛΙΒΙΚΟΣ ΛΙΟΟΔΟΜΟΣ ΩΡΘΟΣΕΝ ΜΕ.</span><a class = "tag" name = +"endtag1" href = "#endnote1">1</a><br> +<i>Lichas Libiicus architectus me erexit.</i><br> +Lichas a Libian architector set me vp.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 029--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Let vs returne and come backe to the consideration of the But and +tessell or square, subiect and vphoulder of the Pyramides in the fronte +and foreside whereof I beheld ingrauen a <i>Gigantomachie</i> and +combate betwixt Giauntes, the onely enemie to vitall breath, +surpassinglie well cut, with the quick motions and liuelie agilities of +their large and tall bodyes, vnpossible to be rightlye described, the +artificiall handling thereof, as it were enuying the woorke of nature +itselfe, as if theyr eyes and feete had mooued together, and coasted +from one part to an other, with an expedite passage and swift course. In +such sorte seemed they vpon theyr strong and mightie horsses, some being +cast downe, other stumbling and falling: many wounded and hurt, yeelding +vp their desired liues: some troden downe and mischieued vnder the feete +of the fierce and vnrestrained horsses. Other casting off their armour +wrastling and togging one with another: some headlong with their heeles +vpwarde, falling and not come to the ground from off their horsses. +Other some lying vpon the earth, houlding vp their sheilds and Targets, +offended with the one hand, and defended with the other. Many with their +shimitaries and curtilaxes, some with long swordes two handed after the +auncient Persian manner, others with diuers deadly and strange fashioned +mortall weapons: some wearing habergions and helmets, with diuers +deuises vpon their crests: others naked and vnarmed, leaping and rushing +in among the thickest, thereby shewing theyr haughtie, inuincible, and +vndaunted courages, resolute for death. Some with fearefull countenances +crying out, other shewing obstinate and furious visages, although they +were assured to dye, strongly abiding the proofe of their paine, and the +cutting in sunder of their fatall thread, others slaine before them, +with diuers vncothe and straunge warlike and deadly instruments. Shewing +their strong members, their swelling muskels standing out, offering to +the sight and eyes of tbe behoulder, the dutie of theyr bones, and the +hollownesse in the places, where theyr strong sinewes be strayned. Their +conflict and combate seemed so fearefull, bloudie, deadly, cruell, and +horrible: as if <i>Mars</i> himselfe had beene fighting with +<i>Porphirion</i> and <i>Alcion</i> who made a noyse lyke the braying of +Asses.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This catagliphic imagerie, did exceed a naturall and common +stature and proportion of men, carued in priuie white marble, +<!--png 030--> +<span class = "pagenum">10</span> +<span class = "folionum">D2</span> +the ground thereof as black as iet, a perfect foile to beautifie and set +forth with pale Christaline and siluer crolley, of innumerable huge +bodyes, their last indeuours, their present actions, the fashion of +their armor, the diuersitie of their deaths, & vncertaine & +doubtful victorie. The discharge of my vndertaken discription whereof, +prooueth maymed and lame, by reason that my vnderstanding is wearie, my +memorie confused with varietie, and my sight dimmed with continuall +gasing, that my senses will not aford me rightly, and as their dewe, +fitly to manifest part, much lesse to describe at large the whole manner +of their curious <i>Lythoglyphi</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After this I became to cast with my selfe, what should mooue and cause +such a pride & burning desire in any man, to fetch from far, and +gather together so mightie stones with so great trauell: With what +carriage, who were the conueyers and porters, with what manner of +wheeles, and rowling deuises, and vpholding supporters, so great large +and innumerable a sort of stones should be brought thither, and of what +matter theyr cement that ioyned and held them together, was made the +heygth of the Obelisk and statelinesse of the Pyramides, exceeding the +imagined conceit of <i>Dimocrates</i> proposed to <i>Alexander</i> the +great, about a worke to be performed vpon the hill <i>Athos</i>. For the +strangenes of the Egiptian building might giue place to this. The famous +<ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘laborinth’">laborinths</ins> +were far inferior, <i>Lemnos</i> is not to +be rehearsed the Theaters of old time were in comparison but warriners +lodges, ney ther did the famous <i>Nausoley</i> come any thing neere. +Which certainly maketh me absolutely perswaded, that he which wrote the +seauen woonders of the world, neuer <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘hard’">heard</ins> of this: neyther in any age hath +their been seene or imagined the like, no not the sepulcher of +<i>Ninus</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Lastly I woondered what foundation and arches were able to vphold so +monstrous a weight, whether the pyllars were hexagons or tetragons, and +what varietie of columnes, and what number might serue, and after what +sorte proportionately disposed and set. For the better vnderstanding and +more perfect knowledge wherof, I conueyghed my selfe in at the open +& spacious porche and enterance, within the which was an obscure and +vast hollownes: which porche, together with the proud and stately +buylding (things worthy of memorie) shall in some sorte be descrybed as +followeth.</p> + + + + +<p class = "intro"> +<!--png 031--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Poliphilus, after the discription of the huge Pyramides and Obeliske, +discourseth of maruelous woorkes in this Chapter, namely of a horsse of +Colos<ins class = "mycorr" title = "missing text"><span class = +"inset"> </span></ins>of an Oliphant, but especially of a most rare +and straunge Porche.<a class = "tag" name = "endtag2" href = +"#endnote2">2</a> +</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capR.jpg" align = "left" +width = "173" height = "174" alt = "R"> +<span class = "hidden">R</span>ightlye and lawfullye may I haue leaue to +write, that in the whole world there was neuer such an other, so +pompeous, glorious, and magnificent a peece of worke, by mans eyes seene +or <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘crebiblie’">crediblie</ins> +reported. The woonderfull excellencie and +rare straungenesse whereof, as I beheld what with delight, and what with +admiration, my sences were so captiuated and tyed therevnto, that no +other solace or pleasure, did eyther occurre or take place in my swift +flying thought.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But that when I applyed my sences to consider, and addressed my eyes +with diligent obseruation, curiouslie to ouerlooke euerie perticular +part of this sweete composed obiect, and most rare and goodly imagerie +and virgin like bodyes, without cracke or flawe, with a long drawne +breath, and somewhat opening my mouth, I set a deepe sighe. In so much +as my amorous and sounding breathing, by reason of the thicknesse of the +ayre in this solytarie and lone place, gaue an eccho, and did put me in +minde of my Angelike and extreame desired <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘Palia’"><i>Polia</i></ins>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +O hi me that so small or anye intermission should cause that hir louely +and celestiall Idea and shape was not still imprinted in my minde, and +continued a dayly companion, in whose brest my life is resolued to +abide, and rest as vnder the protection of a most sure and approoued +shield and safe defence.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And by this way I was brought to a place where were diuers and sundrie +excellent sorts of auncient deuises and woorkemanships: first of all, I +beheld a most fayre porche, past all sence to describe (for the +incredible curiousnes thereof, as euer was built or deuised) and the +rather for that our mother toung and vulgar speeche, may not afford apt +and peculiar words, for such a piece of artificall worke.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Before this gorgeous and glorious porche, you shall vnderstand +<!--png 032--> +<span class = "pagenum">11</span> +<span class = "folionum">D3</span> +that in the open ayre there was a fowre square court of thirtie paces by +his Diameter, paued with pure fine marble, poynted <ins class = "edcorr" +title = "corrected by author from ‘foote’">fowre</ins> square, wrought +checkerwise of diuers fashions, and sundrie best fitting coulours: but +in many places, by meanes of the ruine of the auncient walke, and olde +pillers, broken in peeces and ouergrowne.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +A columne consisteth of his Capitell that is the head. Astragalus that +is the subiect of the capitell next the columne. Hypotrachelie the shaft +of the columne. And Hypothesis, that is the foote whereon the Columne +standeth, exceeding the bignes of the columne.</span> +<!----> +And in the vtmost partes of the aforesaide court, to the right hand, and +the left, towards the mountaines, there was two straight rowes of +pillars, with a space betwixt for the interiect <i>Areostile</i>, as the +quantities of both columnes required, the first course or order of +setting the pyllars, beginning on both sides equall to the Lymbus or +extreame part of the fronte of the porche, the space betwixt pyllars and +pillars <span class = "smallroman">XV.</span> paces. Of which collumnes +or great pillars, some and the greatest parte or number were whole. With +their capitels or heads, wrought with a waued shell worke, and cyllerie +or draperie, their corners bearing out and inanulated or turned in like +a curled locke of hayre, or the vpper head of a base Viall aboue the +pinnes, which straine the stringes of the instrument to a musicall +concord; with their subiect Astragals, writhing and hanging heere and +there, making the capitall thrise so big as the bottom thereof of the +columne, wherevpon was placed the Epistile or streight beame, the +greatest part decayed, and many columnes widowed and depriued of their +Capitels, buryed in ruine both Astragals and shafts of the columnes and +their bases or feete.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Fast ioyning to which order or set rowes of pillars, there grew ould +plaine trees, wylde Oliues, Pine apple, and pricking brambles. I +coniectured that it was made for to ride horses in, to trot and gallop, +the ring, to manage, <ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author +from ‘carreic’">carrier</ins>, and coruet in, or els some open gallerie, +couered close ouer head, vnder propt with pillers, and of a large +widenesse to walke drie in, and to take a temperate ayre in, not too +subtile.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Aboue in this great Court paued as aforesayd, in the passage towardes +the Porche, some tenne paces, I beheld a prodigious winged vaughting +horse, of moulten brasse, of an exceeding bignesse, his wings fanning +out. His hooues standing vpon a smooth plaine base or frame, fiue foote +brode, and nine feete in length, in heigth proportionable to the bredth +and length: with his head at libertie and vnbrideled: hauing his two +small eares, the one +<!--png 033--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +standing forward, and the other drawne back, with a long waued <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘maime’">maine</ins>, falling from +his crest on the contrarye side: vpon whose <ins class = "edcorr" title += "corrected by author from ‘backes’">backe</ins> diuers young youthes +assayed to ride, but not one was able to sit stedfast, by reason of his +swiftnesse and high bounding, from whom some were fallen downe, lying +wide open to the ayre, some groueling, other falling headlong, betwixt +the horsse and the earth, the rest in vaine houlding by the hayre of his +maine, some forceing to get vp vpon him, and others indeuoring to +recouer themselues from vnder his feete.</p> + +<p class = "illustration bodytext"> +<img src = "images/pic_11v.jpg" width = "436" height = "368" +alt = "winged horse as described in text"></p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the vpper part of the frame and base, there was infixed and fastned +with lead, a footing or thick crust, of the same mettall that the horse +was, and vpon the which he stoode, and those that were ouerthrowne did +lye, somewhat shorter and narrower then the base or subiect frame, the +whole masse or composition cast of a peece and of the same mettall, +maruelouslie founded. Lastlye +<!--png 034--> +<span class = "pagenum">12</span> +you could not perceiue that any were contented with his rowghnes, as +appeared by their framed countenances, shewing a discontent which they +could not vtter being sencelesse images, not differing otherwayes +thorough the excellent conning of the craftisman from liuing creatures, +and by his surpassing imitation of nature.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Peryllus</i> there might go put vp his pypes, and blush with his +deuised Bull, and <i>Hiram</i> the Iewe must heere giue place, or what +founders els soeuer.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The <i>Pægma</i> base or subiect for this metaline machine to stand +vpon, was of one solyde <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘peeee’">peece</ins> +of marble (of fit and conuenient +breadth, heighth, and length, for that purpose accordinglye +proportioned) full of streaming vaines, sondry coulered, and diuerslye +spotted, maruelous pleasant to the eye, in infinite commixtures, +confusedly disposed.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the brest or formost part, and end of the marble base, that was +opposite against the porch, there was a garland of greene marble, like +the leaues of bitter <i>Alisander</i>, commixt with dead leaues of +Maydenweede, of a hayre coulour, within the which there was a smoothe +round, pure, white stone, wherein was ingrauen these capitall Romaine +letters.</p> + +<p class = "illustration bodytext"> +<img src = "images/pic_12r.jpg" width = "415" height = "255" +alt = "·D· / AMBIG / ·D·D· EQVVS / INFOELI/CI/TATIS"> +</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 035--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +At the hinder end in like sort was a garland of deadly Woolfwoort, with +this inscription, <i>Equus infælicitatis</i>. And vpon the right side +there was ingrauen certaine figures, shapes, and representments of men +and women dauncing together, byformed or faced, the formost smiling, the +hynmost weeping: +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +None liue <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘in in’">in</ins> +this world in that pleasure, but they haue also their sorowes in +time.</span> +<!----> +and dauncing in a ring, with theyr armes spred abrode, and hanfasted +man, with man and woman with woman. One arme of the man vnder that of +the woman, and the other aboue, and thus closing together, and houlding +by the hands, they floung about one after another, that alwayes still in +one place, a smyling countenance incountered a foregoing sad. Their +number was seauen and seauen, so perfectly and sweetely counterfeited +with liuelie motions, their vestures whisking vp and flying abroad, that +the workman could not be accused of any imperfection, but that one had +not a liuely voyce to expresse their mirth, and the other brinish teares +to manifest their sorrow: the said daunce was in fashion of two +Semicircles, with a seperating partition put betwixt.<a class = "tag" +name = "endtag3" href = "#endnote3">3</a></p> + +<p class = "illustration bodytext"> +<img src = "images/pic_12v.jpg" width = "444" height = "373" +alt = "two-faced dancers"></p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 036--> +<span class = "pagenum">13</span> +<span class = "folionum">E</span> +Vnder which Hemiall figure, there was inscript this worde +<span class = "extended">TEMPV</span>S. On the contrary side I beheld +many of greene <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘adolestencie’">adolescency</ins> of like +proportion to the former, and in suchlike compasse or space, +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Gift vainely bestowed, in time wantonlie spent, is a great losse, & +breedeth repentance.</span> +<!----> +the grounds of both beautified and set foorth with an exquisite +<ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘soliature’">foliature</ins> or woorke of +leaues and flowers, this companie was plucking and gathering of the +flowers of sundrye hearbes, and tender bushing stalkes and braunches; +and with them diuers faire Nimphes pleasantly deuising, and sportinglie +snatching away their gathered flowers, and in such sort as abouesaid +vnder the figure were ingrauen certaine capitall letters, to shew this +one word <span class = "extended">AMISSI</span>O, conteyning the ninth +part to the Diameter or the quadrature.</p> + + +<p class = "illustration bodytext"> +<img src = "images/pic_13r.jpg" width = "440" height = "371" +alt = "dancers"></p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 037--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +At the first sight hereof I was amased and astonished, but with better +regard & great delight curiously reouerlooking the huge founded +Machine the shape and forme of a horse made by humane industry and skill +most commendable, for that euery member without defect had his perfect +harmonie, and euery limme his desired proportion, I straight called to +remembrance the vnfortunate horse of <i>Scian</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus helde still to beholde the same artificiall mysterie, an other +spectacle and obiect no lesse worthy to be looked vpon than the former, +offered it selfe to my sight, which was a mighty Elephant, whereunto +with a desirous intent I speedely hyed me to approch and come neere.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In which meane while on an other side I heard a mournefull noise and +humane groaning, as proceeding from a sicke body euen vnto death: +whereat I stoode still at the first, my haires standing right vp, but +presently without further stay, I addressed my steppes towards the place +from whence I heard this wofull noyse and dolefull lament, forcing my +selfe vp vppon a heape of ruinated, broken and downe-fallen marbles. +Thus willingly going forward, I came to a vast and wonderfull large +Colose, the feete thereof bare, and their soles hollowe, and the legges +as if their flesh had beene wasted, consumed and fallen away. From +thence with horror I came to looke vpon the head, where <i>I</i> did +coniecture and imagine, that the ayre and winde getting in and comming +foorth of his wide open mouth, and the hollow pipes of his throat, by a +diuine inuention did cause this moderated noise and timed groanes: it +lay with the face vpward all of molten mettal, like a man of middle age, +and his head lifted vp as with a pillowe, with a resemblance of one that +were sicke, breathing out at his mouth, sighes and groanes gaping, his +length was three score paces. By the haires of his beard you might mount +vp to his breast, and by the rent and torne peeces of the same to his +stil lamenting mouth, which groningly remained wide open and empty, by +the which, prouoked by the spurre of curious desire, I went downe by +diuers degrees into his throat, from thence to his stomacke, and so +foorth by secret wayes, and by little and little to all the seuerall +partes of his inward bowelles, Oh wonderfull conceit. And euery part of +mans body hauing vpon it written his proper appellation in three ideomes +Chaldee, Greeke and Latine, that +<!--png 038--> +<span class = "pagenum">14</span> +<span class = "folionum">E2</span> +you might know the intrailes, sinews, bones, veines, muscles and the +inclosed flesh, and what disease is bred there: the cause thereof, the +cure and remedy, Vnto which inglomerated and winding heape of bowelles, +there was a conuenient comming vnto and entrance in: with small +loope-holes and wickets in sundry places diuersly disposed, yeelding +thorough them a sufficient light to beholde the seuerall partes of the +artificiall anothomie, not wanting any member that is found in a +naturall body.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +When I came to the heart, did see and reade how Loue at his first +entrance begetteth sorow, and in continuaunce sendeth out sighes, and +where Loue doth most greeuously offend: wherewithall <i>I</i> was mooued +to renew my passion, sending out from the botome of my heart deepe set +and groaning sighs inuocating and calling out vpon <i>Polia</i>, in such +sort as that the whole Colose and Machine of brasse did resound, +striking me into a horrible feare: an exquisite Arte beyond all +capacity, for a man to frame his like not being an Anotomy indeede.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh the excellency of passed wittes, and perfect golden age when Vertue +did striue with Fortune, leauing onely behind him for an heritage to +this our world, blinde, ignorant, and grudging desire of worldly +pelfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the other side I perceiued of like bignes to the former Colose, the +vpper part of a womans head some deale bare, and the rest buried with +the decayed ruines, as I thought, of such like workmanship as the other, +and being forbidden by incomposite and disordered heapes of decayed and +fallen downe stones, to view the same I returned to another former +obiect, which was (and not farre distant from the horse straight +forward) a huge Elephant of more blacke stone than the Obsidium, +powdered ouer with small spottes of golde and glimces of siluer, as +thicke as dust glistering in the <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘stone’">sonne</ins>. The extreame hardnes +whereof the better did shew his cleere shining brightnes, so as euery +proper obiect therein did represent it selfe, excepte in that parte +where the mettall did beare a contrary colour. Vpon his large backe was +set a saddle or furniture of brasse, with two gyrthes going vnder his +large belly, betwixt the which two being streight buckled vp with +buckles of the same stone, there was inter-set a quadrangle +correspondent to the breadth of the Obeliske placed vpon the saddle, and +so iustly set, as no perpendicular line would +<!--png 039--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +fall on either side the diameter. Vpon three parts or sides of the foure +square Obelisk, were ingrauen Egiptian caracters. The beast so exactly +and cunningly proportioned, as inuention could deuise, and art performe. +The aforesaid saddle and furniture set foorth and beautified with +studdes hanging iewels, <ins class = "mycorr" title = "Italian: +‘historiette’">stories</ins>, and deuises, and houlding vp as it were a +mightie Obeliske of greene couloured stone of Lacedemonia, vpon the euen +square, two paces broad, and seauen in height, to the sharpe pointe +thereof, waxing smaller and smaller, vpon which pointe there was fixte a +Trigon or rounde Ball of a shinyng and glystering substance.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This huge beast stood streight vpon all foure, of an exquisite +woorkmanship vpon the plaine leuell, and vpper part of the base, hewen +and cunningly fashioned, beeing of <i>Porphyr</i> stone. With two large +and long teeth, of puer white stone, and cleare appact, and fastned. And +to the fore gyrth on eyther side was buckled a riche and gorgeous +poiterell, beautified with diuers ornaments and varietie of Iewels, the +subiect whereof was of the same substance of the saddle: vppon the +middest whereof was grauen in Latine <i>Cerebrum est in capite</i>. And +in like manner brought about the out sides of his neck to the foretop of +his large and big head, it was there fastned together with an +artificiall knot: from the which a curious ornament and verie notable, +of Gouldsmithes worke, hung downe, ouer spredding his spacious face: the +same ornament being twise so long as broade, bordered about, in the +table whereof I beheld certaine letters, <i>Ionic</i> and <i>Arabic</i>, +in this sorte.</p> + +<p class = "floatleft"> +<img src = "images/pic_15r.jpg" width = "246" height = "413" +alt = "ΠΟΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΦΥΙΑ (PONOS KAI EUPHUIA) and [Arabic: ....]" +title = "Greek: PONOS KAI EUPHUIA and [Arabic: ....]"> +</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 040--> +<span class = "pagenum">15</span> +<span class = "folionum">F3</span> +His deuouring trunke rested not vpon the leuel of the base, but some +deale hanging downe, turned vppe againe towardes his face. His rigged +large ears like a Fox-hounde flappingly pendent, whose vast stature was +little lesse, then a verye naturall Olyphant. And in the about compasse, +and long sides of the base, were ingrauen certaine <i>Hierogliphs</i>, +or Egiptian caracters. Being decently and orderlye pullished, with a +requisite rebatement, <i>Lataster gule thore orbicle, Astragals</i> or +<i>Neptrules</i>, with a turned down <i>Syme</i> at the foote of the +base, and turned vp aloft with writhin trachils and denticles, agreeable +and fit to the due proportion of so large a substance, in length 12. +paces, in breadth fiue, and in heigth three, the superficiall and +outward part, whereof was hewen in forme of a hemicycle.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the hynder parte of which base and stone, wherevpon this mightie +beast did stande, I founde an assending place of seauen steps, to mount +vp to the plaine superficies of the base wherevpon the <i>O</i>lyphant +did stand. And in the reserued quadrangle perpendicularly streight vnder +the aforesaid brasen saddle, there was cut out and made a little doore +and hollowed entrance, a woonderfull woorke in so hard a substance, with +certaine steppes of brasse, in manner of stayres, by the which a +conuenient going vp into the body of the Olephant was +offered me.</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<!--png 041--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<img src = "images/page_15v.jpg" width = "367" height = "584" +alt = "pyramidal building"></p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 042--> +<span class = "pagenum">16</span> +At the sight whereof I extreamely desired to see the whole deuise & +so going in, I assended vp to the heigth of the base wherevppon the +cauernate, hollow, vast, large and predigious monster did stand, except +that same part of the Obelisk, which was conteyned within the voyde body +of the beast, and so passing to the base. Leauing towards both sides of +the Olyphant so much space as might serue for any man to passe, eyther +towarde the head or hynder haunches.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And within from the bending downe of the chine or backe of the beast, +there hunge by chaynes of copper an euerlasting lampe and incalcerate +light, thorough the which in this hinder parte I sawe an auncient +sepulcher of the same stone, with the perfect shape of a man naked, of +all natural parts. Hauing vpon his head a crowne of black stone as iet: +his teeth eyes and nayles siluered and standing vpon a sepulcher couered +like an arke, of scale woorke, and other exquisite lyneaments, poynting +with a goulden scepter, and holding forward his arme to giue direction +to the former part.<a class = "tag" name = "endtag4" href = +"#endnote4">4</a></p> + +<p class = "main"> +On his left side he held a shield in fashion like to the keele of a +ship, or the bone of a horse head, wherevppon was inscript in Hebrew, +Attic,<a class = "tag" name = "endtag5" href = "#endnote5">5</a> and +Latine<a class = "tag" name = "endtag6" href = "#endnote6">6</a> +letters, this sentence that is placed on the other side with the +figure.</p> + +<table class = "fixed"> +<tr> +<td rowspan = "3"> +<!--png 043--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<img src = "images/pic_16v.jpg" width = "243" height = "491" +alt = "crowned man with shield and pointer"> +</td> +<td> +<span title = "Hebrew: Im lo ki habehema kista et besari +ani hayiti erom chapes vetimtza hanicheni"> +<br>אם לא כי הבהמה כסתה את בשרי <br> +אני הייתי ערום חפש ותמצא הניחני +</span> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> +<span class = "greek" title = +"Greek: GUMNOS ÊN, EI MÊ AN THÊRI- +ON EMEKALUPSEN. ZÊTEI. HEU- +RÊSÊDE. EASON ME.">ΓΥΜΝΟΣ ΗΝ, ΕΙ ΜΗ ΑΝ ΘΗΡΙ-<br> +ΟΝ ΕΜΕΚΑΛΥΨΕΝ. ΖΗΤΕΙ. ΕΥ-<br> +ΡΗΣΗΔΕ. ΕΑΣΟΝ ΜΕ.</span> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "latin"> +NVDVSESSEM, BES-<br> +TIA NIME TEXIS-<br> +SET, QVAERE, ET<br> +INVE NIES. MESI-<br> +NITO. +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class = "main"> +At which vncoth and straunge sight I stood not a little amased and +somewhat doubtfull what to imagine, turning my eyes to the contrarie +part, I sawe in like sorte an other, as before burning light, and +passing thorough betwixt the side of the beast, and the therein inclosed +part of the Obelisk, I came towards the forepart of the Olyphant, where +in like manner I found such an other fashioned sepulcher as the former, +with a stature or image standing therevpon as the other, sauing that it +was a Queene, who lyfting vp hir right arme with hir formost finger, +poynted towards that part behinde hir shoulders, and with the other shee +helde a little table fast in hir hand, in which was written in three +languages<a class = "tag" name = "endtag7" href = "#endnote7">7,</a><a +class = "tag" name = "endtag8" href = "#endnote8">8,</a><a class = "tag" +name = "endtag9" href = "#endnote9">9</a> this epygram.</p> + + +<table class = "fixed"> +<tr> +<td rowspan = "3"> +<!--png 044--> +<span class = "pagenum">17</span> +<span class = "folionum">F</span> +<img src = "images/pic_17r.jpg" width = "253" height = "482" +alt = "crowned woman with shield"> +</td> +<td> +<span title = "Heye me shetihiye kach min ha’otzar ze ka’avat nafshecha +aval azhir otcha haser harosh ve’al tiga begufo"> +שתהיה קח מן האוצר הזה כאות נפשך +<br> הסר הראש ואל תיגע בגופו היה מי<br> +אבל אזהיר אותך +</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> +<span class = "greek" title = +"Greek: HOSTIS EI. ALBEEK TOU DE TOU +THÊSAUROU, OSNON ANA RESKOI. +PARAINÔ DE HÔS LABÊIS TÊN +KEPHALÊN, MÊ HAPTOU EÔMATOS.">ΟΣΤΙΣ ΕΙ, ΑΛΒΕΕΚ ΤΟΥ ΔΕ ΤΟΥ<br> +ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟΥ, ΟΣΝΟΝ ΑΝΑ ΡΕΣΚΟΙ.<br> +ΠΑΡΑΙΝΩ ΔΕ ΩΣ ΛΑΒΗ<span class = "smaller">Ι</span>Σ ΤΗΝ<br> +ΚΕΦΑΛΗΝ, ΜΗ ΑΠΤΟΥ ΕΩΜΑΤΟΣ.</span> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "latin"> +QVISQVIS ES,<br> +QVANTVNCVN-<br> +QUE LIBVERIT<br> +HVIVS THESAVRI<br> +SVME AD MONEO.<br> +AVFER CAPVT,<br> +CORPVS NE TAN-<br> +GITO. +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class = "main"> +This noueltie worthie to be manifested, and secret riddle often to be +read ouer, was not knowen to me, so as I rested doubtfull what the +interpretation of this sophisme should signify, not daring to trie the +conclusion. But stricken with feare in this dark vnlightsome place, +notwithstanding the dimme burning lampe, I was more desirous to beholde +and peruse that triumphant porch and gate as more lawfull to remaine +there than other-where. Whereupon without more adoe, I determined to +leaue this place vntill another time, that I might more quietly at +lesure looke vpon the same, and to prepare my selfe to beholde the +woonderfull worke of the gate: and thus descending downe I issued foorth +of the vnbowelled monster, an inuention past imagination, and an +excessiue labour and bolde attempt to euacuate such a hard substance +ouer that other +<!--png 045--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +stones be, the workemanship within as curious as that without. Lastly, +returned cleane downe, I beheld in the Porphire laste along the sides +notably insculpt and grauen these hierogliphies.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +First, the horned scalpe of an oxe, with two tooles of husbandry fastned +to the hornes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +An altar standing vpon goates feete, with a burning fire aloft, on the +foreside whereof there was also an eie, and a vulture.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After that a bason and an ewre.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +A spindle ful of twind, an old vessel fashioned with the mouth stopped +and tied fast.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +A sole and an eye in the bale thereof and two branches trauersed one of +Oliue, an other of Palme tree.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +An Anchor and a Goose.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +An olde lampe, and a hand holding of it.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +An ore of ancient forme with a fruitefull Oliue branch fastned to the +handle.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Two grapling yrons or hookes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +A Dolphin and an Arke close shut.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +These hierogliphies were passing well cut on this manner.</p> + + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/pic_17v.jpg" width = "438" height = "373" +alt = "hieroglyphics"></p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 046--> +<span class = "pagenum">18</span> +<span class = "folionum">F2</span> +Which ancient maner of writing, as I take it, is thus to be +vnderstoode.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Ex labore Deo naturæ sacrifica liberaliter paulatim reduces animum +Deo subiectum. Firmam custodiam vitæ tuæ, misericorditer gubernando +tenebit, incolumemque seruabit.</i></p> + +<p class = "main"> +Letting passe this most excellent rare, strange, and secret deuise and +worke: <i>L</i>et vs returne againe to the prodigious horse, whose head +was leane and little, of a small proportion and yet fitting the body, +which seemed continually staring, fieerce and impatient, the flesh in +his muscles trembling and quaking, in such sort as that hee seemed +rather aliue than a fained imitation, with this Greeke worde in his face +<span class = "greek" title = "Greek: GENEA">ΓΕΝΕΑ</span>. There were +also other great peeces and fragments of diuers and sundry lineaments +among the broken and decayed ruines, which I looked not on, still +running and sliding, time giuing me onely leaue to consider and peruse +these foure rare wonders, the porch or gate, the horse, the Colose, and +the Elephant</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh reuerend arthists of times past, what despite hath gotten the vpper +hand of your cunning that the same is buried with you, and none left for +vs to inherite in this age,</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At length being come to this ancient porch, a worke woorthie the looking +vpon maruellously composed by exquisite rules, and by art notably +beautified, with diuers and sundry sorts of cuttings, which did inflame +a desire in me to vnderstand and finde out the lineaments and practise +of the architect. I beganne after this maner, making a square from the +two collumnes on either side in a perfect sort, in the which I tooke the +due proportion of the whole porch.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +A tetragon figure A. B. C. D. diuided by three lines straight, and three +ouerthwart equally distant one from an other will make sixeteene +quadrats, then adde to the figure halfe as much more in like proportion, +diuiding the adiunct you shall finde foure and twenty squares. This +figure shall serue of credycels to make the inlepturgie and briefe +demonstration that followeth.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Draw then in the first fygure A. B. C. D. two diagons, make also in the +same two lines, and straight downe, and the other ouerthwart, which make +foure quadrats mutually intersect,</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then in the voide ouer the Isopleures make foure mediane +<!--png 047--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +prickes, drawing lines from one to another, and they wil make the +Rhombas.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +When I had drawne this figure after this manner I straightway mused with +my selfe, what reason should mooue many of our woorkemen in these dayes +eyther to thinke well of themselues, or take the art of building in +hand, not knowing what it is? Making such grosse faults in churches and +great mens houses, defaming arte, and so ignorant, that they seeme as +though they could not consider what nature hir selfe dooth teach vs in +behoulding of hir woorkes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And what parte soeuer is not agreeable with his principle, is foule and +naught. For take away order and rule, and what thing can any man make, +eyther beautifull to the eye, or of commendable proportion and durable: +then it must needes follow, that the cause of such inconuenient errors +doth proceed from ignorance, and hath his beginning from illiterature. +And this notwithstanding, that although the perfection of this arte +dooth not varie, & fall from his rectitude, yet the discreet and +cunning architect to grace the obiect, to the behoulders: may lawfullye +eyther with adiection or deminution, beautifie his worke, keeping whole +the sollid part, with his vniuersall composition.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +I call that solid which is the bodye of the frame, which is the +principall intent, inuention, fore setting downe, and symmetrie, or dew +proportion of the building without any additions, rightlye examined, and +perfectly composed, which will manifest the skill of the workeman, and +the same afterwardes to adorne and beautifie, which adiuncts is an easie +matter. Wherein is also to be considered, the dew ordering and placing +of euery thing, and not to set a crowne vpon the feete, but vpon the +head, and so oualing and denticulating, and other cuttings of sundrye +sorts in their seuerall and best fitting places, the chiefe inuention +and disposing whereof, resteth in the rare and cunning architect, but +the labour and woorking therof to the vulgar and common sort of <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "so in original">mannalists</ins> and seruants +to the architect, who if he will do well, he must in no wise be subiect +to auarice.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And besides his skil he must be honest, no pratler full of words, but +courteous, gentle, <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in original: +‘benign’?">bening</ins>, tractable, patient, mery & pleasant, full +of new deuises, a curious searcher into all artes, and well aduised in +his proceeding, least with rashnes he comit a fault or absurditie +<!--png 048--> +<span class = "pagenum">19</span> +in his worke, and heereof thus much shall suffice.</p> + + +<p class = "intro"> +After that <em>Poliphylus</em> had at large made a demonstration of the +dew proportion of the Gate, hee proceedeth to describe the ornaments +thereof, and their excellencie.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capI_1.jpg" align = "left" +width = "178" height = "171" alt = "I"> +<span class = "hidden">I</span> hauing beene somewhat prolix and tedious +in my former purpose, it may be that it hath bred some offence, to such +as dayly indeuour to occupie theyr sences in the pleasaunt discourses of +loue. But it wyll also prooue no whit displeasant, if with a lyttle +patience, they restraine to glutte themselues with the walowish sweetnes +of deceyueable delightes, and trye the taste of a contrarye vyand.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And for as much as the affections of men are naturally variable and +different one from an other: vpon this occasion I may bee excused. For +although that bread sometime denyed and kept backe from the hungrie +body, may cause a hard conceit, yet when it is eftsoones offered vnto +him, the mallice is forgotten, and the gift very gratefully +receyued.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nowe hauing in some sorte spoken of the right vse of architecturie, and +the direct waye and meanes by order and rule, to finde out, the set +downe deuise, and solyde bodye or grounde of the woorke, with facilitie +that beeing found out, the architector may vse sundrye deuisions in +diuerse perfections, not vnlike vnto a cunning Musition, who hauing +deuised his plaine grounde in right measure, with full strokes, +afterwarde wyll proportion the same into deuisions, by cromatycall and +delyghtfull minims crotchets, and quauers, curiously reporting vpon his +plaine song. Euen so after inuention, the principall and speciall rule, +for an Architector is a quadrature, the same deuided into smales the +harmonie and sweete consent of the building, setteth foorth it selfe, +and the conuenient adiunctes, agreeable to theyr principall.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In all which this porche was most excellent, both for the rare inuention +and woonderfull composition thereof, and the strange additions to +beautifie the same, in such sorte so exquysite, +<!--png 049--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +so fitly placed, and so curiouslie cut and ingrauen, as the smallest +part thereof could not bee accused of anye fault, but the woorkman +commended for the perfection of his skill.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +First vpon my right hande belowe, I beheld a stilypode or square stone, +like an aulter vnder the bases of the columnes, which hauing vpon the +vpper parte a conuenient and meet coronice, and accordingly imbowed, the +bottome and lowest part in like manner was fashioned, so as the quadrate +and aforesayd stilypode, was no broder then long, but a right +quadrangule. Which aulter (as I may tearme it) sidelong about, wrought +with leaues, hollowed vnder with a gulaterie, and wrapt ouer <ins class += "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘wirh’">with</ins> the same <ins class = +"edcorr" title = "corrected by author from ‘soliature’">foliature</ins> +and leafe worke, hemming in the smooth face or table of the Stilypode of +shining white alliblaster, polished and plaine, the outward part of the +quadrangule, equilaterally compassing about the same, wherevpon with a +woonderfull curiousnes was ingrauen a man neere his myddle-age, of a +churlish and swarffie countenance, with an vnshaply beard, thick, and +turning into his chyn, by the towghnesse of the hard skinne, and vneasie +growing out of the hayre.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +He sat vpon a stone with an <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original">aporne</ins> +of a Goates skinne, the hinder parts compassing +his waste, and tyed behynde with a knotte, and the neck part, with the +hayrie side next him, hung downe betwixt his legges. Before him in the +interstice of these grose and tumorus calfes, there was an anuill +fastned vpon a knottie peece of a tree, wherevpon he was fashoning of a +<ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘bryganine’">brigandine</ins> +or habergion of burning mettall, houlding +vp his Hammer, and as it were striking vpon his worke.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And there before him was a most noble woman, hauing two fethered wings +set vpon hir delicate and tender shoulders, houlding hir sonne an +infante naked, which sate with his little hyppes vpon the large and +goodly proportioned thighes of the faire goddesse his mother, and +playing with hir, as she held him vp, and putting his feete vpon a +stone, as it had beene a little hill, with a fornace in a hollow hole, +wherin was an extreame whote burning fire.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This Ladye had hir fayre tresses curiouslie dressed vpon hyr broad and +highe forhead, and in like sorte compassing about with abundance, hir +head in so rare and delicate a sort, that I marueyled why the +Blacksmithes that were there busie at theyr worke, left not <ins class = +"edcorr" title = "corrected by author from ‘all’">off</ins> to looke +still vpon so beautifull an obiect. +<!--png 050--> +<span class = "pagenum">20</span> +There was also fast by, of like excellent woorkemanship, a knight of +fierce countenance, +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Mars.</span> +<!----> +hauing vpon hym an armour of brasse, with the head of <i>Medusa</i> vpon +the curate or brest plate, and all the rest exquisitely wrought and +beautified, with a bandilier ouerthwart his broad and strong brest, +houlding with hys brawny arme a halfe Pike, and raysing vp the poynte +thereof, and bearing vpon his head a high crested helmet, the other arme +shadowed and not seene by reason of the former figure: There was also a +young man in silke clothing, behynde the Smith, whome I could not +perceiue but from the brest vpwarde, ouer the declyning head of the +forenamed Smith. Thys rehearsed hystorie, for the better and sweeter +pleasing to the eye, the workeman had graced in this sort. The playne +grounde that was hollowe and smoothe in euery cutting out of a limme or +body, vpon the table of the stylipode, was like vnto red coroll and +shyning, which made such a reflection vpon the naked bodyes, and theyr +members betwixt them, and compassing them about, that they seemed lyke a +Carnation Rose couler.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the left side of the doore in the like aulter or stylipode vpon the +table thereof, there was ingrauen a yoong man of seemly countenance, +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Mercurie.</span> +<!----> +wherein appeared great celerity: he sate vpon a square seate adorned +with an ancient manner of caruing, hauing vpon his legge a paire of half +buskens, open from the calfe of the legge to the ancle, from whence grew +out on either ancle a wing, and to whome the aforesaide goddes with a +heauenlye shape, her brests touching together and growne out round and +firme without shaking, with her large flankes conformable to the rest of +hir proportion before mentioned with a sweet countenance <ins class = +"mycorr" title = "so in original: ‘offered hir yoong’?">offered +yoong</ins> and tender sonne ready to be taught: the yong man bowing +himselfe curteously downe to the childe, who stoode before him vppon his +pretty little feete, receiuing from his tutor three arrowes, which in +such sort were deliuered as one might easelye coniecture and gather +after what manner they were to be vsed: the goddesse his mother holding +the empty quiuer and bowe vnbent, and at the feete of this instructor +lay his vypered caduce.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There also I saw a squier or armour-bearer and a woman with a helmet +vpon her head carying a trophæ or signe of victorie vpon a speare after +this manner. +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Amor mi troua di tutto disarmato.<a class = "tag" name = "endtag10" href += "#endnote10">10</a></span> +<!----> +An ancient coate-armor hung vp, and vpon the top thereof or creast, a +spheare vpon two wings, and +<!--png 051--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +betwixt both wings this note or saying, <i>Nihil firmum</i>, Nothing +permanent: she was apparelled in a thin garment carried abroad with the +wind, and her breasts bare.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The two straight pillars of Porphyre of seuen diameters vpon either of +the aforenamed stilipodes and square aultars did stretch vpward of a +pumish or tawnie colour, the out sides shining cleere and smoothly +pollished, chamfered, and chanelled with foure and twenty rebaternents +or channels in euery collumne betwixt the nextruls or cordels.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Of these the third part was round, and the reason of their cutting in +such sort (that is two parts chamfered, & the third round) as I +thought was this: the frame or temple was dedicated to both sexes, that +is, to a god and a goddesse, or to the mother and the son, or to the +husband and the wife, or the father and the daughter, and such like. And +therefore the expert and cunning workemen in elder time for the feminine +sex, did vse more chamfering and channelling and double varietie then +for the masculine, because of their slippery and vnconstant nature.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The cause of so much rebating was to shew that this was the temple of a +goddesse, for chamfering dooth set foorth the plytes of feminine +apparell, vpon the which they placed a chapter with prependent folding, +like vnto plyted and curled haire, and feminine dressing, and sometimes +in stead of a chapter a woman’s head with crisped haire.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +These notable and faire collumnes aforesaide did rise vp in length vpon +their vnderset bases of brasse with their <i>Thores</i> and +<i>Cymbies</i> +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Thores and Cymbies be the outward parts of a chapter or head of a pillar +sticking out further than the pillar wrything and turning in, wrought +with leaues, the worke is called of caruers & painters draperie and +celerie.</span> +<!----> +wrought with a foliature of oke leaues and acornes winding about their +chapters standing vpon their subiect <i>Plynths</i>. The Chapters of the +same substance of their bases, with requisite meete and conuenient +proportion aunswerable to the harmonie of the whole worke. Such as +<i>Callimachus</i> the chiefe caruer to <i>Calathus</i> the sonne of +<i>Iupiter</i> did neuer performe or come neere in the erected sepulcher +of the <i>Corinthian</i> Virgin, beautified with draperie of double <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "text reads +‘Achauthis’"><i>Achanthis</i></ins>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Plynthes whereon the chapters did stand wrought with winding and +turning workes, and in the middest, decorated with a Lillie, the bowle +garnished with two rowes of viii. leaues of Achanthus, after the Romaine +and Corinthian maner, out of which leaues came little small stalkes, +closing together in the middest +<!--png 052--> +<span class = "pagenum">21</span> +<span class = "folionum">G</span> +of the boule, shewing foorth a fayre and sweet composed Lyllie in the +hollowing of the Abac or Plynth, from the which the tender stalkes did +turne round together, vnder the compasse of the square Abac, much after +the woorke that <i>Agrippa</i> caused to bee made, in the porche of his +woonderfull Pantheon.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Let vs come now to the lymet and lowest parte of the doore, for +entrance, which was of a great large and harde stone, powdered with +sundry sorted spottes, white, black, and of a clay couler, and diuers +other mixtures: vppon this stood the streight cheekes and sides of the +doore, with an interstitious aspect, inwardly carued with as great +cunning as the rest. Without any signe of eyther hookes or hinges, below +or aboue.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The arche of which doore compassing like a halfe cyrcle, was wrought +curiouslye and imbowed, and as it were bounde about with laces like +beads of brasse, some round, and some like Eglantine berries of a +reddish couler, hanging downe after an auncient manner, and foulded and +turned in among the tender stalkes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The closing together and bracing of which hemicycle or arch, worthie of +admiration, of a rare and subtile deuise, and exquisite polyture, did +thus obiect and present it selfe to my sight.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +The Eagle of Iupiter that carryed Ganimed.</span> +There I beheld in a hard and most black stone, an eagle displayed, and +bearing out of the bignesse of a naturall eagle, which had louingly +seazed and taken in hir foote a sweete babe in the swadling cloutes, +nicely, carefully, and gently houlding the same, least that hir strong, +sharpe, and hooking pounces, should by anye meanes pierce thorough the +tender skynne of the young infant.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Hir feete were fixed about the rising vp chist of the childe, whome she +had made bare from the nauell vpwarde and downeward so as the naked +hippes might be seene betwixt the fethered thighes of the Eagle. This +little infant and most beautifull babe (worthie and meete for him that +he was seazed for) by his countenance shewed as if he had beene afraide +of his fortune.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +The bones next the <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: ‘back’?">qack</ins> +in the wing, whiche in a hawke excelleth all +proportions of other birds.</span> +And thus lying in the foote of the Eagle, he stretched both his armes +abroade, and with his little fat hands tooke fast hould vpon the +remigiall bones of the Eagles pinions displayed, as aforesaid. And +clasping his swelling prittie legges and feete, about hir <ins class = +"edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘subvaging’">suruaighing</ins> +spreding traine, which laye behinde the +rising vppe of the arche.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Achates is a pretious stone wherein are represented the figures of the +nine Muses, of Venus and such like beautiful personages.</span> +This little childe was cut of the white vayne of Achates or +<!--png 053--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Onix, and the Eagle of the other vaine of the same stone called <ins +class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘Sardins’">sardius</ins> +which is of black couler of some called +Cordeoll, ioyning both in one selfe same stone. Whereat I stood musing +and commending to my selfe the ingenious and apt inuention of the +Arthist, in the vse of such a stone, which of his owne nature to +contrarie proportions affoorded contrarie coulers, and in such sort as +by the raysing vp of hir small plummage aboue hir seare, hir beack halfe +open, and hir toung appearing in the middest thereof, as if she had +beene resolutely intended, and eagerly bent to haue gorged hir selfe +vpon it.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The hemicicle or arche rising rownd from the vpper part of the streight +cheeke of the entrance, according to the thicknes thereof was disposed +into losenges or squares, wherein were carued Roses, theyr leaues and +branches hanging in a curious and delightfull order to behoulde, ouer +the entry of the Gate.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the two Triangles occasioned by the bow of the arche there were two +fayre Nymphes of excellent proportions and shapes, theyr clothes which +couered theyr Virgins bodyes, giuing place for theyr legges, brests, and +armes to be bare, theyr hayre loose and flying abroad, and towardes the +brace, and knitting together of the arche aboue, they held a victorious +trophæ.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The ground of which tryangle was of black stone, the better to shew the +perfection and truthe of the mettals in the trophæs, and the beautifull +bodyes of the delycate virgins.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Zophor is a border wherin diuers things are grauen.</span> +Aboue these mentioned partes, was the Zophor, in the myddest whereof, I +beheld a table of goulde, wherein was this Epigram in Cappitall <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "so in original">Creeke</ins> Letters of +Syluer. In thys sorte reporting.</p> + +<p class = "center bodytext"> +<span class = "greek" title = +"THEOIS APHRODITIKAI TÔ Ô EROTI DIONISOS YKAI +DÊ MÊTRA EK TÔN IDIÔN MYTRI +SUMPATHES TATÊ">ΘΕΟΙΣ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΙΚΑΙ ΤΩ Ω ΕΡΟΤΙ ΔΙΟΝΙΣΟΣ ΥΚΑΙ<br> +ΔΗ ΜΗΤΡΑ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΙΔΙΩΝ ΜΥΤΡΙ<br> +ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΣ ΤΑΤΗ.</span><a class = "tag" name = "endtag11" href = +"#endnote11">11</a></p> + +<p class = "center bodytext"> +<i>Diis veneri filio amori, Bacchus, & Ceres de propriis, S. +substantiis matri pientissimæ.</i></p> + +<!--png 054--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">22</span> +<span class = "folionum">G2</span> +Eyther sides of which table was reteind and held vp with two babes or +wynged spyrits of perfect and liuelye shapes, as if they had beene +celestiall bodyes, vppon a ground of <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: ‘lasul’?">Iasul</ins> or blew Saphyrs to grace the +mettals and imagerie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the face of the Zophor extending and stretching along ouer the +columnes of porphir stone were ingrauen certain spoiles or curates, +gorgets of mayle, <ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author +from ‘Vanubraces’">vaumbraces</ins>, gauntlets, shields, Targets, +head-peeces, maces, battell Axes, spurres, quiuers, arrowes, dartes, +broken launces, curtilaxes, and other auncient instruments of warre. As +well ayerie and marine, as for the field singularly well cut, and +manifesting to the behoulder both victories, force, and triumphes, after +a mortall effusion of bloud.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon this in order stood the <ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by +author from ‘Coromie’">coronice</ins>, wrought with such lyneaments as +decently concurred, and were aunswerable to the excellencie of the rest +of the worke: for other wise, as in a mans body one qualitie being +contrarie to another, sicknesse dooth follow, the humors oppressing one +an other in abundance: so in building if the adiuncts be vnaptly +disposed, and vndecently distributed there will fall out a fowle +deformitie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For a frame and building growes weake and vnseemely wherin cannot be +found a sweete harmonie and commodulate order and concent.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which thing many moderne ideots doe confound, being ignorant in Locall +distribution. For a cunning crafts master will in his worke shewe an +allusion or resemblance to a humaine shape and proportion beautifully +adorned in apparrell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Aboue ouer the coronice, by an inuers gradation there were fowre +Quadratures or square Tables, two right ouer the <ins class = "edcorr" +title = "corrected by author from ‘chanifered’">chamfered</ins> +columnes, and channelled pyllars, and two within them. In an other +deuision, betwixt the said two <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘contract’">contrast</ins> +and inwarde tables, there stood a Nimph in hir Anagliph +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Anagliph smothly chased out with the hammer and not carued.</span> +<!----> +most rare and excellent of Orichalke or yealow Latin, houlding in eyther +hand a Torche, one of them reuersed and turned downeward, beieng extinct +and put out, and the other burning towardes the Sunne. The burning +Torche in hyr righte hande, and the extincte in hyr left.</p> + +<!--png 055--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Clymene the mother of Phaeton.</span> +In the quadriture vppon the right side, I behelde the iealous +<i>Climene</i>, with her <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: ‘haire’?">heare</ins> +trans-formed into an hearbe called <i>Venus</i> +maid, or Lady hearbe, & <i>Phœbus</i> in a cruell indignation & +wrathfull displeasure, she following of him weeping, from whom he fled +hastening on forward hys swift horses, as one that flyeth from hys +mortall and deadly enemie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the Table ouer the Columnes on the left side in a curious and rare +vnusuall caruing, there was the resemblance historyed of the +vncomfortable and still mourning <i>Cyparissus</i> holding vp hys handes +and armes toward the Sunne, and making his mone to <i>Apollo</i> for the +wounded <i>Cerua</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the third Table nexte the last mencioned, in a worke answerable to +the presedent and former, I behelde <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text +reads ‘Lencothoe’"><i>Leucothoe</i></ins>, wickedly slayne of hyr own +Father, chaunging and transforming her fayre yong and tender flesh into +smooth barke, shaking leaues and bending wandes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the fourth Table, was represented the discontented & displeasant +<ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author from +‘Daphus’"><i>Daphne</i></ins>, at the burning desires of the curled +headed <i>Delius</i>, rendring vp by little and little her virgins body +vndefiled, towards the hote heauens, beeing metamorphised most +pyttifully into a greene Laurell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nowe successiuely in order ouer the afore-mencioned Tables and +quadratures in the <i>Zophor</i>, wherein these Histories were +represented in shapes, there was extended and laide ouer a Coronice +denticuled & oualld with interset stralets, betwixt the iates of the +Oualls, and leafeworke and the Imbrices with the rest that appertayneth +to the setting forth of the same (past my skill to report) without any +fault or defect: and lastly, the syme was adorned heere and there with +the leaues of <ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author from +‘Aehanthus’"><i>Achanthis</i></ins>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +A <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text unclear">petiment</ins> in corrupt +English.</span> +And to return to the view of the whole frame, in the disposing thereof +as <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads +‘aforesaidel’">aforesaide</ins>, the Coronices by a perpendycular lyne +were <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in original">corrospondent</ins> +and agreeing with the faling out of the whol worke, the Stilliced or +Perimeter, or vtterpart of the vppermost Coronice onely except.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +It followeth to shew and speake of the <i>T</i>able or inward part of +the <i>T</i>rigonall: within the which, according as the extreames of +the same triangle would permit, there was presented to my view, a Crowne +or Garland of diuers leaues, fruites, and stalkes, foulded +<!--png 056--> +<span class = "pagenum">23</span> +<span class = "folionum">G3</span> +vppe and wrapte together of a greene stone knitte in foure partes, the +byndings of the selfe same stalkes, holden by two Mermaydes, the vpper +parts of them of a humayne shape, and that vnder the nauell like a +Fyshe, their one hande vp, and the other belowe on the Garlande, their +scalye tayles extending to the nethermost corners of the Triangle, vppon +the top of the Coronice hauing at theyr extreeme partes theyr fishy +winges or finnes. Theyr faces like vyrgines, theyr tresses of haire, +partly curling vppe vppon their forheades, some turned about their heads +and rowled vp, some depending downe vppon theyr temples, and crisping +and inanulating by their eares. From betwixt their shoulders grewe their +winges like <ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author from +‘Hapies’">Harpies</ins>, stretching downe and extending to the foulding +and turnings of theyr tayles, vpon their monstrous flankes grew out +their fynnes to swimme withall, their beginning, their <ins class = +"edcorr" title = "corrected by author from ‘fishen’">fishie</ins> and +scalye substance, and from thenceso continuing theyr nether parts +downewarde.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Iupiter.</span> +Within the saide Garland I beheld a rough Milche Gote, +which a little child did suck, sitting vnder hir side vpon his fleshie +young legges one streight foorth, and the other retract and bowed vnder +him. With his little armes houlding himselfe by the hearie and rough +locks, his countenance and eyes vpon the byg and full vdder thus +sucking. And a certaine Nimphe, as it were speaking woords, and giuing +voyces of contentment, to the Goat and bowing downe hir selfe with the +left hand, held vp one of the feete, and with the right hand putting the +pappe to the smacking kissings of the sucking infant, and vnder hir were +these letters +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Iupiters nursse.</span> +<!----> +<i>Amalthea</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Another Nimphe stood against the head of the Goate, with one arme +carefully compassing the neck, and with the other shee held hir by the +horne.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +The daughter of Melissus and Iupiters nursse.</span> +In the middest stood the third Nimphe with greene bowgh leaues in one +hand, and in the other an oulde fashioned drinking bowle, more long then +broad, like a boate by a little handle. Vnder hir feete was written, +<i>Melissa</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Betwixt one and other of the three fore specified Nymphes, there were +two other hauing Cymbals in theyr handes, as it were playing and +dauncing, euery one apparrelled according to the +<!--png 057--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +perfection of theyr beauties, with an artificiall performance of +workmanship in the vndertaken proportions, that they rather seemed the +substances themselues then a Lythoglyph an Imagerie, either by +<i>Policletus</i>, <i>Phidias</i> or <i>Lysippus</i>, neyther did <ins +class = "edcorr" title = "word added by author">the</ins> +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Anaglipts be cunning carues and grauers.<a class = "tag" name = +"endtag12" href = "#endnote12">12</a></span> +<!----> +<i>Anaglipts</i> to <i>Artemisia</i> the Queene of <i>Caria</i>, +<i>Scaphes</i>, <ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author from +‘Briapis’"><i>Briaxes</i></ins>, <i>Timotheus</i>, <i>Leocaris</i> and +<i>Theon</i>, come any thing neare for the workemanship heereof seemed +to excell the cunning of any humaine Lapicidarie, caruer grauer, or +cutter whatsoeuer.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Aboue this foresayde Triangle, and vnder the vpper coronice in a smooth +plaine were these two Attic wordes in capitall Letters, <span class = +"greek" title = "DIOS AIGIOCHION">ΔΙΟΣ ΑΙΓΙΟΧΙΟΝ</span>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This conspitious porche and gate, most woorthye to be behelde, thus +stoode of a maruelous composition, excellently disposed. If I had not +explaned the commodulation and harmonie heereof particularly, I might +haue beene blamed for my prolixitie and tediousnesse, and for wanting of +fit words, in the discription. And thus for this time heereof so +much.</p> + + +<!--png 058--> +<p class = "illustration"> +<span class = "pagenum">24</span> +<img src = "images/page_24r.jpg" width = "362" height = "567" +alt = "Temple: ΔΙΟΣ ΑΙΓΙΟΧΙΟΝ (DIOS AIGIOCHION)"></p> + +<!--png 059--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +It must needes follow, that all the rest of the aforesaide court on +euery side was beautifull to behold, and of stately workemanship by that +which still remained standing: as in the inward parte the naues and +columnes carrieng and bearing vp an immesurable and monstrous weight, +and Corinthies of a lesser sort, a diuine and vnknowen work abounding in +variety of perfections as proportion required and needfullnes did desire +to beare vp the burthen that was laide vppon them. Their ornature and +decking with woorkes, and deuises imitating the apparreling of princely +bodies indewed as it were with an artificiall reason. For as to a large +big and corpulent body strong legges, and broad feete, are necessarie to +beare and carry the same: so in a modulate and well composed building, +to sustaine great weights, Naues are appointed, and for beautie, +columnes, Corinthies, and slender Ionices, are set vpon them. And this +whole woorke euen after such sorte as was requisite for the harmonie +thereof, euen so it stood in an approoued excellencie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +With diuersitie of coulers, sweetlye set, and aptlye disposed, the +reflexion of one beautifing another, and all together making a gratious +obiect. Of <i>Porphyrit</i>, <i>Ophit</i>, <i>Numidian</i>, +<i>Alabastrit</i>, <i>Pyropecil</i>, <i>Lacedemonian</i> greene, and +white marble, diuerslie watered, and of <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘Andraeme’"><i>Andracine</i></ins> with white +spottes, and many others of strange sorts and diuers commixtures.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +I found one rare forme of a base, in fashion like a cushion vpon the +plynthe whereof stood two trochils or torrules, with an interposition of +Hypotracles or shaftes, and Astragals, with a supreame Thore.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Diuers places were hidden and couered ouer with winding, felted and +spreding Iuie, full of black berries, and greene soft leaues heare and +there growing vp, and hindering the inwarde obiect of the auncient +worke, with other Murall and wall weeds comming out of the chinkes and +clifts, as the <ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author from +‘bell flowered Foxgloue’">bell flowre</ins>. Venus Nauill, & +Erogennet, of some called Loue, to whome he is gratefull, bushing downe +againe toward the ground, in other ryfts grew Mowse-eare, Polypodie, +Adientus or Lady hayre, the iagged and curled Cithracus the knotted +Lunarie minor, Prickmaddam, Polytricon, or goulden lockes and such like, +which vse to grow in decayed buildings, and ould stone wales, so that +many woorthie peeces +<!--png 060--> +<span class = "pagenum">25</span> +<span class = "folionum">H</span> +were inuested and hydden from me, with such like weedes and greene +Olyues the garnishers of ruines.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There was in diuers places inestimable huge downe falles of many +columnes or rather confused piles of broken stones, and vnshapely +Culpins mounting vp from the earth.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Among which downefallen peeces I might see the remaynders of diuers +shapes of men of sundrie sortes, many naked, other some hauing their +members couered with folded and plited induments, fast sticking to their +naked proportions. Some standing vpon the left foote, others vpon the +right in a streight sort, with their heads perpendicularly, euer the +center betwixt their heeles, and some looking sidewaies in height, foure +Cubites of sixe foote.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Others standing vppon both feete, some deale distant one from an other, +and each one in a maiestie sitting in their thrones, and the rest with a +rare and modest grace in their best pleasing and appointed seates.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There also I beheld innumerable <i>trophæs</i>, spoyles of armor, and +infinite ornaments, with the heades of Oxen and Horses of conuenient +bignes, and about their hornes part of their garlands of leaues, +fruites, twigges, braunches and floures, and some about part of their +bodies, with little children riding vpon them and playing, in so perfect +a sort and wished order, as the most skilfull workemaister full of +varietie, labour, studie, and industrie, could deuise and performe. With +what care and paine his abounding skill did plainly manifest, and with +what pleasure the effect of his purpose did no whit obscure.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And with such an <i>Eurithmie</i> or apt proportioning of members, hee +did shewe the subtiltie of the art of <i>Lapicidarie</i>, as if the +substances had not beene of the hardest marble howsoeuer, but of soft +chaulke or Potters claie, and with what conclansture the stones were +couched, and by what Artillerie, rule and measure they were composed and +set, it was woonderfull to imagine.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This was the true Art enucleating and discouering the ignorance that wee +worke in, our detestable presumption, and publike condemned errors.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This is that cleare and perfect light, which sweetly and with +<!--png 061--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +our vnconstrained willes draweth our dimme sighted eies to contemplate +and behold the same. For none (vnles it be he which of set purpose +refuseth to behold it) but his eyes would dasell with continuall desire +to see it.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This is that which accuseth horrible couetousnes, the deuourer and +consumer of all vertue, a stil byting and euerlasting greedie worme in +his heart that is captiuated and subiect to the same, the accursed let +and hinderance to well disposed wittes, the mortal enemy to good +Architecturie, and the execrable Idol of this present world, so +vnworthily worshipped, and damnably adored. Thou deadly poison to him +that is infected with thee, what sumptuous workes are ouerthrowne, and +by thee interdicted.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Herewithall I beeing rauished and taken vp with vnspeakeable delight and +pleasure in the regarding of this rare and auncient venerable monument +of such a grace and admiration, that I knew not to which part to turne +me first, here and there willingly looking about, and thereat amazed, +considerately perusing ouer what the ingrauen histories presented vnto +me, as I remoued my selfe from place to place, with an vnknowne delight, +and vnreportable pleasure to beholde the same, gaping at them with open +mouth, forgetting my selfe like a young childe, neuer satisfying my +greedie eyes and vnsaciable desire to looke and ouerlooke the exquisite +perfection of the auncient worke, I was spoiled and robbed of all +thoughts whatsoeuer, the remembrance of my desired <i>Polia</i>, often +accurring, onely excepted. But with an extreeme and deepe set sigh, let +vs leaue her a litle, and returne again to our continued purpose.</p> + + +<p class = "illustration bodytext"> +<img src = "images/dec_31v.png" width = "296" height = "70" +alt = "Decoration"></p> + + +<!--png 062--> +<p class = "intro"> +<span class = "pagenum">26</span> +<span class = "folionum">H2</span> +Poliphilus entring a little waye in at the described porch, with great +delight he there also beheld how it was garnished and adorned, and after +as he was comming out he met with a monstruous dragon whereat he was +extreemlie afraide, and compelled to runne backe into the building, and +at last getting foorth with much adoe hee came into a fertile place.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capA.jpg" align = "left" +width = "212" height = "218" alt = "A"> +<span class = "hidden">A</span> great and commendable thing with out +dout it shold be, trulie to discribe, & from point to point, to set +down the incredible work, and vnimagined composition, of so vast a +frame, and huge bignes, of so great a buildinge with the excellencie of +the entrance, in a conspicuous and sightly place, conueniently situated, +where of my delight to behold them, did exced the greatnes of my +admiration breeding in me such a conceit so as I perswaded my self that +<i>Iupiter</i> durst not vndertake the like to the rest of the gods, +& certainly beleeuing that no workman, or human witt could compase +so huge a frame, expresse so notable conceits, or imagine and inuent so +rare deuises and so gorgiouslie to garnishe them, in so singuler an +order and simmetry, to dispose them, and without supplement or +correction perfictlye to finishe them. A rare and insolent pride in a +building. Vppon which occasion I was in some doubt and that not a little +that if the naturall historiographer had seene or heard of this, hee +woulde haue scorned that of Egipt, and the cunning and industrie of the +woorking thereof, for that heerein the sundrie and diuers woorkes +effected by many seuerall <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘wookmen’">workmen</ins> +seemed in the perfections, of their dewe +proportions as if they had been performed by one himselfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +He would also as lightlie haue regarded the skillfull cunning of +<i>Satirus</i> the architect and other of fame, especially +<i>Simandrus</i>, for the woorke of <i>Memnon</i>, who cut the three +statures of <i>Iupiter</i> in one stone, the feet being aboue seauen +cubits long.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +To this the representation of the magnanimous <i>Semiramis</i> carued +out of the mountaine <i>Bagistanus</i> must <ins class = "mycorr" title += "so in original: ‘giue’?">geue</ins> place.</p> + +<!--png 063--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +And letting passe to speake of the insolent greatnes of the Piramides of +<ins class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author from +‘Meniphis’">memphis</ins>, those writers at large would haue bente them +selues to this description. And leauing vnreported, the famous Theaters, +Amphitheaters, Bathes, and building sacred and prophane, carriages, of +waters, and colosses, and that of Appolline translated +by<i>Lioculus</i>. Or the temple dedicated to <i>Iupiter</i> by +<i>Claudius Cæser</i>. Or that of <i>Lisippus</i> at <i>Tarentum</i>, or +the wonder of <i>Carelindius</i> at the Rhodes, and of <i>Xenodorus</i> +in France, and in Roome. And the colosse of <i>Serapus</i> nine cubits +longe of Smarage or <i>Emerauldes</i>, or the famous Labyrinth of +<i>Egypt</i>. Or the representacion of <i>Hercules</i> at +<i>Tyre</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +They woulde haue accommodated their sweete styles, to the commendation +heard of as aboue all other most excellent, although the <ins class = +"mycorr" title = "text reads ‘Obelist’">Obelisk</ins> of Iupiter, +compact of fower frustes, fortie Cubits high, fower Cubits broade, and +two Cubits thick, in his deluber within the temple dooth manifest it +selfe to be a wonderfull miracle.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vnsaciable thus casting mine eyes, and turning vp my countenance now +this way & now that way, towards this huge & mighty frame, I +thus thought with my selfe. If the fragments and remaynder of so sacred +an antiquitie, and if the greet and dust of such a decayed monument, can +breed a stupifaction in the admiration thereof, and cause so great +delyght to behould the same, what would it haue done in chiefest +pride.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After this my discourseing, reason perswaded mee to suppose, that with +in might bee the Aultar of <i>Venus</i> for hir misticall Sacrifices and +sacred flames, or the representation of hir Godhead, or the +<i>Aphrodise</i> of hir selfe and hir little Archer, and therefore with +a deuoute reuerence, my right foote beeing set vppon the halowed lymit +of the doore, there came towards me flying a white +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +A bird of slow flight & long liuing, in old monuments by Augurs +dedicated to Saturne.</span> +<!----> +<i>Horix</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But I sodainlye with out any further regard or curious forcaste <ins +class = "edcorr" title = "corrected by author from ‘which my’">which +with my</ins> searching eies went in as the spatious and lightsome +entrie <ins class = "mycorr" title = "letter ‘a’ invisible">gaue</ins> +me leaue, representing vnto me such sights as merit, and are Condigne of +euerlastinge remembrannce, in ether sydes stilled with smoth poollishede +Marble, in the middle parte where of there was impacte a rounde table, +<ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘inclanstrede’">inclaustrede</ins> +and compassede about with a greene +Stonne verye pretious and accordinglie <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘aso/scociated’ at page break, but catchword is ‘-sciated’">asosciated</ins> +<!--png 064--> +<span class = "pagenum">27</span> +<span class = "folionum">H3</span> +with curious workemanship. And the opposite of verie blacke stone, +scorning and contemning the hardnes of iron, and cleare and shining as a +mirror. By meanes whereof as I passed by (vnawares) I grew afrayd at my +owne shadow, neuertheles I was by an by comforted with vnexspected +delight, for the place that occasioned my disquiet nowe offered vnto me +the grounde of all sciences, historied in a visible manifest and experte +painting.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Ostracus be pounded shels mixed with lime, whereof a plaster is made to +floor withall.</span> +And on either sides vnder the same beautifull and most noble tables, +there were placed all a long seates of stone. The pauement neat and +cleane from dust, being made of <i>Ostracus</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And so in like manner the coloured vpper seeling was pure and voyd of +Spiders and Cobwebs, by reason of the continuall fresh ayre both entring +in and going out.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The seeling of the walles as aforesayde, mounted vp to the bendyng of +the Arche from the Chapters which stood vpon their strict and vpright +Antes euen to the vttermost ende of the entrie, which was by my +perspectiue iudgement twelue paces.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +From which perpolyte ligature and fastned ioyntes, the roofe of the +entrie all the length thereof, did march with a hemicircubate flexure, +answerable to the Antes and streight sides of the afore described porche +full of varieties and exquisite representments, rarely ingrauen and of +little water monsters, as in the water it selfe in their right and well +disposed plemmyrules, halfe men and women, with their fishie tailes: +some imbracing one an other with a mutuall consent, some playing vppon +Flutes, and others vpon other fantasticall instruments.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Some sitting in straunge fashioned Charriots, and drawne in them by +swift Dolphines, crowned and adorned with water Lillies sutable to the +furniture of the garnished seates: some with diuers dishes and vessels +replenished with many sortes of fruites. Others with plentiful copies, +some coupled togither with bands, and others wrastling as they did, +riding vppon <i>Hipposatamies</i>, and other sundrie and vncoth beastes, +with a Chiloneall defence.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Some wantonly disposed, others to varietie of sportes and feastes, with +liuely indeuours and quicke motions, most singularlye +<!--png 065--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +well set foorth, and filling all ouer the aforesayde arched suffite.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Along vnder the bending ryse of the entrie, I beheld a singular +woorkemanship of sundrie representments and counterfeits, in an +excellent Thessellature, bright shining lyke <ins class = "mycorr" title += "letters ‘a’ and ‘e’ unclear: Italian has ‘dorata’">goalde</ins>: and +of diuers other coulers, with a border two foote broade, compassing +about the turning couer of the roofe, both vnder and aboue, and deuiding +them from the woorke, vpon the plaine sides, of so perfect and fresh +coulers, as if they had beene new set, with a naturall leafe woorke of +an emerawld greene, vppon a punice or tawnie grounde, with Flowers of +<i>Ciantes</i> and <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original"><i>Phænicees</i></ins> adulterated with curious knottes +and windings, and in the conteyned space of the aforesayde sides, I sawe +this auncient Hystorye paynted.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Europa</i> a young Ladye, swimming into <i>Creete</i> vppon a +prestigious Bull. And the edict of King <i>Agenor</i> to his Sonnes <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "so in original"><i>Cadus</i></ins>, +<i>Fœnice</i>, and <i>Cilicia</i>, to finde out theyr defloured sister, +which thing they could not do, but after that they had valiauntly kylled +the skalie fierce Dragon that kepte the fayre Fountayne: and consulted +with <i>Appollo</i>, they determined with theyr followers, and agreed to +builde a Cittie, where the bellowing Heyffer should appoynte, wherevppon +that countrey, euen to this daye carryeth the name of the bellowing of a +Cowe <i>Europe</i>. <i>Cadmus</i> builte <i>Athens</i>. The other +brother<i>Fœnicia</i>. The third <i>Cilicia</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Thys woorke and musaicall painting, was rightlye placed in order, as the +beginning and end of the historie required with fictions in theyr +naturall coulers, theyr actions and degrees <ins class = "mycorr" title += "so in original: ‘rightlye’?">tightlye</ins> expressed</p> + +<p class = "main"> +On the contrarie side, I beheld in the same manner the wanton and +lasciuious <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original"><i>Pasiphæ</i></ins> +burning in infamous lust, lying in a +Machine or frame of wood, and the Bull leaping vpon that hee +knew not.</p> + +<!--png 066--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">28</span> +After that the monstrous mynotaure with hys vglye shape shut and +inclosed in the intricate Labyrinth. And after that the imprysoned +<i>Dedalus</i>, artificially making of winges for hymselfe, and his +young sonne Icarus, who vnhappylye not obseruing hys Fathers rule, fell +downe headlong into the deepe see, leauing vnto the same seas his name, +after his drowning. And his discreete father, being safe according to +his vowe, hanging vp his wings in the temple of <i>Appollo</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the which I stoode with open mouth attentiuely gazing with my +eyes, and rauished in minde with the beautie of the hystorie, so well +disposed, so perfectly ordered, so artificiallye paynted and curiouslie +expressed, whole and sounde, without any signe of decaye, the strength +of the glutinous substance, which ioyned and held the Thessalature or +checkers, together was such and so perfect. For therein the workeman had +taken great paine and shewed a rare cunning.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus foote by foote I went forward bowldly, examining and behoulding +what direction and arte of painting hee had obserued with a pensiled +distribution to make whole proportions in a smoothe and flat playne. +Some lynes drawing neere to my obiect, and some seeming as they had +beene a farre of hardely to bee deserned, and yet both of a like +neerenesse. And the same againe which was hardlie to bee seene, to offer +it selfe more and more, to the iudgement of the eye, with exquisite +parergie and shadowing<a class = "tag" name = "endtag13" href = +"#endnote13">13</a> Waters, Fountaines, Mountaines, Hilles, woodes, and +beasts, in theyr naturall coulours, and distante one from an other, with +opposite light. And in apparrell the plyghts and fouldes so cunninglye +perfected and shaddowed that as well in that, as in all the rest, the +arte did seeme to enuye nature it selfe, and that not a little whereat I +greatly woondered.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After this manner I came to the further ende, where the beautifull +hystories finished, and beyond the same more inward the darknes was such +as I durst not enter, & comming back againe I heard among the ruines +a continuing noise like the cracking of bones or their ratling together, +whereat I stood still forgetting +<!--png 067--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +my fore conceiued delight being interrupted therewith from the sweetnes +of the obiects. At length I might heare a rustling as if a dead Oxe had +been dragged vpon the ground, the noyse still approaching and comming +neerer and neerer the poarch that I was to passe out at, where I heard a +great hissing of a huge Serpent: the sodaine feare I was in, made mee +past crying out for helpe, neither did I see how to escape, but by +running into the darke and obscure <ins class = "edcorr" title = +"corrected by author from ‘vastues’">vastnes</ins> whiche before I was +afraide to enter into.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh vnhappie wretch oppressed with aduers and sad fortune, I saw in the +entrie of the doore comming towardes mee, no hurtfull <i>L</i>yon +crowching to <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in +original"><i>Androdus</i></ins>, but a fearefull and horrible Dragon +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +The Dragon is that Abaddon and Apollion, the enemy to mankinde.</span> +<!----> +shaking her <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: ‘trifulked’?">trisulked</ins> +and three parted tongue against mee, +grating her teeth, and making a skritching or critching noyse, her +squamy and scaly hide trailing vpon the flowerd pauement, clapping her +winges vpon her wrimpled backe, with a long taile folding and crinckling +like <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘and’">an</ins> Eele and +neuer resting. <i>Ohi me</i>, the sight was sufficient to haue +affrighted <i>Mars</i> himselfe in the assurednes of warlike Armour, or +to haue made tremble the strong and mightie Hercules, for all his +molorchied and clubbed but. And to call <i>Theseus</i> backe from his +begunne imprese and bold attempt, and to terrifie the Gyant +<i>Typhon</i>, and to make the proudest and stoutest heart whatsoeuer to +quaile and stoope. I wished my selfe the swiftnes of <i>Atalanta</i>, +beeing but young and vnarmed, no way able to encounter with such a +poisonable force, and perceiuing his blacke infectious breath smoaking +out at his mouth. Beeing past all hope to slip by him, I deuoutly cried +for diuine helpe. And sodeinly turning my backe, as fast as I could +runne, I conueighed my fearefull bodie by the helpe of my swift pacing +feete, into the inward part of the darke places, penetrating through +diuers crooked torments, ambagious passages and vnknowne waies.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +The darke places is ignorance, and the wisedome of this word which is +nothing els but meere folly.</span> +So that I thought to bee in the inextricable frame of the prudent +<i>Dedalus</i>, or of <i>Porsena</i>, so full of wayes and winding +turnings, one entring into another, to deceiue the intent of the goer +out, or in the romthie denne of the horrible <i>Cyclops</i>, or the +hollow Caue of the theeuish <i>Carus</i>. In such sort, that although my +eyes were somewhat wel acquainted with the darkenes, yet I +<!--png 068--> +<span class = "pagenum">29</span> +<span class = "folionum">I</span> +could see iust nothing. But was glad to stretche out my armes forme +before my face, groping about mee (lyke one that played blynde Sym) +least I should runne my face against some pyllers, and feeling with my +feete softlye before I did rest vpon them for feare I should tumble +downe into some vaulte vnder thys mighty Pyramides.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And looking backe, whether this fearefull Dragon did still followe mee +or no, the light was cleane gone. And I remayning in a darke place, full +of sundrie turnings and crossing passages, in a greater terror and more +deadly heauinesse of minde then <i>Mercurie</i>. Making himselfe +<i>Ibis</i> and <i>Apollo</i>, <i>Threicia</i>, <i>Diana</i>, into the +lyttle byrd <i>Cholomene</i>. And <i>Pan</i> into two shapes. I and more +afraide then euer was <i>Oedipus</i>, <i>Cyrus</i>, <i>Crasus</i>, +and<i>Perseus</i>. And more trembling then the theefe <i>Thracilius</i> +in his beares skinne. +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Cosby for killing the L. Browgh.</span> +<!----> +In sorrowe more abounding then poore <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so +in original: ‘Psyches’?"><i>Pscyphes</i></ins>. And in more laboursome +daungers then <i>Lucius Apuleus</i>, when hee heard the theeues +consulting to knocke him on the head and kyll him.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oppressed and laden with all these aforenamed frightes and terrors, I +began to imagine that the Dragon was flying about my head, and with the +noyse of hir scritching teeth and tearing clawes to take hould vpon me +with hir deuouring iawes: my heart giuing mee to vnderstand, that the +carniuorus Woolfe which I drempt of, was a presage of this my last +doubted end. And thus running vppe and downe like a little poore +Pismeere or Aunte, when the Partrich is scratching vpon their hillocks +and picking of them vp. With my watchfull and attentiue eares, listning +if the horrible monster with hir slimie and filthie poyson and stinking +sauour were drawing towards mee. And fearing whatsoever came first into +my thought.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Finding my selfe vnarmed, voyde of all helpe, in this mortall daunger, +and miserable perplexitie, although that death is naturally bytter and +hated, yet notwithstanding at that time, I did gratiouslie esteeme of +it, which mee thought I could suffer willinglye, but that will was +insufficient: hope still looking, and perswading mee of an vncertaine, +fearefull, and vnquyet lyfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Alas howe my soule and bodye were lothe to leaue one an another, the +sorrowe whereof made me vnwilling to intertaine so +<!--png 069--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +cruel an enemy as death: whereupon I plucking vp a good heart, thought +thus.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Shall the greatnes of my loue so sweetly set on fire, now decaie, +frustrated of anie effect, for if at this present I had been but +presented with a sight thereof, I could haue beene yet the better +satisfied.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But yet forthwith returning to the inward impression of my sweetest +obiect, stil dwelling in the secret of my heart, I fell into blobering +teares, for the losse of two so worthie iewels. That was <i>Polia</i> +and my precious life. Continually calling vpon her with deepe sighes and +singultiue sobbings, sounding in the thicke ayre, incloystered vnder the +huge arches and secret darke couering, saying thus to my selfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +If I die heere thus miserably, sorrowfully, and vncomfortably, all +alone, who shal bee a woorthie successour of so precious a gemme? And +who shal be the <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: ‘possessor’?">possor</ins> +of such a treasure of so inestimable valure? +And what faire heauen shal shew so cleare a light? Oh most wretched +<i>Poliphilus</i>, whether dost thou go vnfortunate? whether dost thou +hasten thy steppes? hopest thou euer to behold againe any desired good? +Behould all thy gratious conceits and pleasant highe delyghtes builded +in thy apprehensiue thoughtes, through the sweetenes of loue, are deadly +shaken, and abruptlie precipitated and cast downe? Looke how thy loftie +<i>Amorous</i> cogitations are shaken in peeces and auchilated. Ah me +what iniurious lot & maleuolent constellations, haue so perniciously +driuen, and deceitfully allured thee into this miserable obscure +darknes? and now haue despitefully ledde thee in a heape of mortal +feares, and drowning in a deepe sea of vnspeakeable sorrowes. To the +vnmercifull deuouring and sodaine gobbling vp of so filthie a monster, +and to bee rotted and disgested in the stinking intrailes of so fowle a +beast, and to bee cast out in so vile a place. Oh lamentable and +vnaccustomed death. O miserable end of my desired life. Where are my +eyes? what be they barreine? Is their humor gone? Are there no more +teares left to fall trickeling downe my blubbered cheekes? Well then I +perceiue that death is at my backe, who did euer see such a change of +fortune? Behold vnhappie and wayward death, and the last houre, and +accursed minute thereof at hande, in this darkesome shade, where my +bodie and +<!--png 070--> +<span class = "pagenum">30</span> +<span class = "folionum">I2</span> +flesh is appointed to bee a foode for so fowle a beast. What furie? what +crueltie? what miserie more monstrous can a mortall creature suffer. +That sweete and pleasant light should bee rest from them that bee aliue, +and the earth denied to them that are dead. What hoggish calamitie, and +deformed mishap, so greeuously and vntimely shall abandon from mee my +most desired and florishing <i>Polia</i>, Farewell the merror of all +vertue, and true perfection of beautie, farewell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus beyond all measure tost and tumbled in such and so great +afflictions, my verie soule was vexed within me, striuing to be set at +libertie from my vnfortunate and feeble bodie, passing vp and downe I +knew not where. My legges weake, feeble, and fowltering vnder mee, my +spirites languishing, and my sences in a maner gone from mee. Sauing +that I called deuoutly vppon the omnipotent God to haue pittie vppon +mee, and that some good Angell might bee appointed to conduct mee out. +And with that beholde I discouered a little light. To the which, how +gladly I hasted, let euerie one iudge what hee would doo in such a +perplexitie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +I saw an euerlasting Lampe, burning before an Aultar that was fiue foote +high, and tenne foote broad, with the images of golde standing +thereupon, which I could not verie perfectly behold, notwithstanding the +burning Lampe, the grossenes of the ayre was such and so great an enemy +to the light.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And alwayes with attentiue eares I diligently harkened, as not yet ridde +of feare, and somewhat I saw, the dimme images and the large +foundations, and feareful vaultes, and subterraneal buttresses or +vpholders and strengthes, heare and there in infinite places +distributed, and many huge and mightie pillers, some fouresquare, some +sixe square, some eight square, aptly set vnder and approportioned to +sustaine the vast bignes of the waightie <i>Pyramides</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There I hauing small delight to make anie long staie, I intended to take +an vnknowne way further in, which my vndertaken course, I espied a light +whiche so long I had wished for, comming in at a litle wicket as small +as I could see.</p> + +<!--png 071--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Oh with what ioy, and with what a glad heart, I beheld it, and with what +cheare did I hasten my steppes towards it. Perchance faster then +<i>Canistius</i> or <i>Philonides</i> +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Two blockish lasie lubbers, one of Melite an other of Athens, that +thought it a great labour to eate their owne meate.</span> +<!----> +my vnbrideled gladnesse and extreame desire to come neere therevnto was +such, that I reuoked and haled backe againe the diuorse of my +discontented and irkesome life, successiuely comforting my perturbed +minde and quailed hart. Somewhat refreshing and reassuring my selfe: +filling vp againe my euacuated and emptie heart, and replenishing the +same with his ould cogitations.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nowe I settled my selfe more towardes my louely <i>Polia</i>, and bound +my affections more surely to hir. Being perswaded and firmely +opinionated, that this sight was a traũce in loue, for shewing that I +should dye and lose my <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads +‘lone’">loue</ins>. Oh how extreamely did it vexe mee. Neyther did it +refuse or make resistance to anye sharpe and newe assaulte of loue, +which in my stroken and sore wounded heart woulde lye festering and +feeding of himselfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And by this time, all lets and hynderances past ouer, a spatious and +large going out was offered vnto me. Then by meanes of the cleere light +I was somwhat comforted, and reassuming and <ins class = "mycorr" title += "‘a’ upside-down">gathering</ins> together againe my wandering +thoughts, and restoring my prostrate force, my suspected and vnknowne +voyage, made me to set out in running: so as the nearer I came to the +doore, the bigger mee thought it grewe. To the which at last by Gods +wyll, <i>Polia</i> in my amorous brest bearing a predominante vigor, I +came, not ceasing to continue forward my fast course: my hands which +before I groping helde foorth, to keepe me from running against pyllers, +I nowe vsed like a payre of Ores to hasten mee awaye.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Thus traueling on safely, I came into a verie pleasaunt sighte and <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "so in original: ‘countrie’?">counttie</ins>, +in the which I was not yet without feare, and not daring to rest me +downe, the impression of the horrible monster was so fresh in my minde, +that mee thought I still heard him behinde me, and therefore I could not +so easily forget him. But was rayther perswaded to goe on further: first +because the countrie was so fertile, pleasaunt and beautifull. Secondly, +that I might get farre enough off from the place wherein I was so lately +affrighted. That then I sitting downe, might rest my selfe, and set +<!--png 072--> +<span class = "pagenum">31</span> +<span class = "folionum">I3</span> +my minde together againe, and forget this conceiued dread, at my +entrance in of the gate, the apparation of the white Sorix gratiously +comming againe into my reteyning memorie, an exhortatorie prouacation, +and good occasion to animate and comforte me, because that to +<i>Augures</i> it was a gratefull and propitious signe of good luck.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At last I was resolutely perswaded to commit my selfe to the benignitie +of my good fortune, which some time might bee vnto me an officious and +bountifull handmaide, of prosperous euents. +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Capillata ministra.</span> +<!----> +And therewithall pricked forward and prouoked to continue on my walke, +whether my wearie and feeble legges would conduct and bring mee. And yet +I was (as in good sorte became mee) somewhat doubtfull to enter into +such a place, (beeing vnknowne vnto mee) where perchaunce it was not +lawfull for me to come. Albeit that I was heerin more audacious and +bould a great deale, then in the enteraunce of the gorgeous Porche. And +thus my brest fast beating, and my minde perplexed, I saide to my +selfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There is no cause that should lead mee to turne back againe, all things +considered: is not this a safer place, and more fit to flie from +daunger? Is it not better to hassard a mans lyfe in the light and cleere +Sunne, then to dye and sterue in a blinde darkenesse? and so resolued +not to turne backe anye more: with a deepe set sighe, I called into +memorie, the pleasure and delight that my sences had well neere lost: +for the woorke which I had seene was full of maruelous woonders, and +thinking by what meane I was depriued of them, I called to remembrance +the brasen Lyons, in Salomons Temple, which were of such fierce +countenances, as that they would bring men to forgetfulnes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And into such an estate I was afrayde that the dragon had brought me, +that so excellent and maruellous woorkes, and rare inuentions, in a +manner vnpossible for any humaine creature to performe, worthie to be +manifested, and by my selfe diligentlye perused, should now be fled out +of my sucking remembrance, so as I should not bee able to make a true +reporte of them: but therein I contraried my selfe: neither did I finde +that I was in a Lithargie passion: But that I verrie well remembred and +helde +<!--png 073--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +without any defaulte in order and proportion whatsoeuer I had seene and +beheld. And that the monstrous and cruell beast was a verrie liuelye +substance, and no fiction, the like of any mortall man sildome seene, no +not of <i>Regulus</i>. The verie remembrance whereof, made my hayre +stand right vp, and foorthwith mooued me to mend my pace.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Afterward returning to my selfe, I thought thus. Heere without all +doubte (for so I imagined by reason of the glorious bountie of the +beautiful soile) is no habitation but for ciuill people, or rather for +<ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in original">Angles</ins> and noble +personages, and a place for Nimphes to frequent vnto, or for the Goddes +and Auncients, Monarches and princes, in so much as my perswasiue desire +did prouoke forwarde my restrained pace, causing a perceuerance in my +late begun iourney. And thus as one captiuated and subiect to the sharpe +spurre of vnsatiable desire, I purposed to houlde on whether the +fayrenesse of my fortune should conduct mee, as yet but indifferent and +rather languishing.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nowe come to behoulde a fayre and plentifull countrie, fruitefull +fieldes, and fertill groundes, I did exceedinglye commend the desire +that mooued mee first to enter into them. But especially to giue thankes +to him that had brought mee out from the fearefull place, which now I +little regarded being far enough off from it.</p> + + +<p class = "illustration bodytext"> +<img src = "images/dec_31v.png" width = "296" height = "70" +alt = "Decoration"></p> + + +<!--png 074--> +<p class = "intro"> +<span class = "pagenum">32</span> +Poliphilus sheweth the commodiousnesse of the countrie where-into hee +was come, in his trauailing within the same, he came vnto a goodlie +Fountaine, and howe hee sawe fiue faire Damsels comming towardes him, +and their woondering at his comming hither, assuring him from hurte, and +inuiting him to bee a partaker of their solaces.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capT_2.jpg" align = "left" +width = "139" height = "137" alt = "T"> +<span class = "hidden">T</span>hus gotten foorth of this fearefull hell, +darke hollownesse, and dreadfull place (although it were a sacred +Aphrodise and reuerend Temple:) and beeing come into a desired light, +louelye ayre, and pleasaunt countrie, full of contentment: I turned my +selfe about to looke backe at the place from whence I came out, and +where my life, my life that latelye I esteemed so lightlie, was so +greatlye perplexed and daungered, where I beheld a mountaine vnnaturall, +with a moderate assention and steepe rising, ouer-growne and shaddowed +with greene and tender leaues of mastie Okes, Beeches, Wainescot Okes, +Holmes, <i>Cerries Aesculies</i>, Corke trees, Yew trees, Holly or +Huluer, or Acilon.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And towardes the plaine, it was couered with Hamberries, Hasels, +Fylbirds, prune, print, or priuet, and whitened with the flowers +thereof: by coulered Xeapie, beeing red towardes the north, and white +against the Southe, Plane trees, Ashe trees, and such like, spredding +and stretching out their braunches: fowlded and imbraced with the +running of Hunnisuckles or woodbines, and Hoppes, which made a pleasaunt +and coole shade. Vnder the which grewe Ladyes Seale or Rape Violet, +hurtfull for the sight, iagged Polypodie, and the Trientall and foure +inched Scolopendria, or Hartes toongue, Heleborous Niger, or Melampodi, +Trayfles, and such other Vmbriphilous hearbes and Woodde Flowers, some +adorned with them, and some without.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +So that the mouth of the darke place, out of the which I had escaped, +was in a manner within the highe Mountaine, +<!--png 075--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +all ouergrone with trees.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And as I could coniecture it was iust against the afore spoken of frame, +and in my iudgement it had been some rare peice of woork, more auncient +then the other, and by time wasted and consumed, now bearing Iuie and +other wall trees, and so was become an ouer growne wood, that I could +scarce perceiue any comming out, or mouth for easie passage but euen for +a necessitie, for <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘it it’">it</ins> was rownd about compassed and enuironed +with bushie and spreeding trees, so as I was neuer determined to enter +in there againe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the streight passage of the valie betwixt the extensed and highe +mounting rockes, the ayre was dim by reason of the retained vapores, and +yet I was as well pleased therewith as <i>Apollo</i> at his deuine +birth.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But letting passe this hole, from the which I gat out by stooping, let +vs come on forward to the sweet liberties which I next beheld and that +was a thicke wood of Chestnuts at the foote of the hill, which I +supposed to be a soile for <i>Pan</i> or some Siluane God with their +feeding heards and flockes, with a pleasant shade, vnder the which <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "letter ‘s’ invisible">as</ins> I passed on, I +came to an auncient bridge of marble with a very great and highe arche, +vppon the which along winning to eyther sides of the walls, there were +conuenient seats to rest vppon, which although they were welcome to my +wearye bodie, yet I had more desire to go on forwarde, vppon which sides +of the bridge, iust ouer the top of the arche, there was placed a +porphirit table with a gorgeous border of curious workmanship, one table +on the one side and an other on the other side, but that one the left +side was of <i>Ophite</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the table on my right hand as I went I beheld <i><ins class = +"mycorr" title = "so in original: ‘Egiptie’?">Egiplie</ins> +hierogliphies</i> on this sorte, An auncient Helmet crested with a +Doggeshead.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The bony scalpe of an oxe with two green braunches of trees bound fast +to the hornes. And an ould lampe. Which hierogliphis the braunches +excepted because I know not whether they were of Firre tree, Pineapple, +Larix or <i>I</i>uniper, or such like: I thus interpret.</p> + +<!--png 076--> +<p class = "center bodytext"> +<span class = "pagenum">33</span> +<span class = "folionum">K</span> +<i><span class = "extended">PATIENTIA EST ORNAMENTVM, CVSTODIA ET +PROTECTIO VIT</span>AE.</i></p> + +<p class = "illustration bodytext"> +<img src = "images/pic_33v.jpg" width = "438" height = "263" +alt = "hieroglyphics"></p> + +<p class = "main"> +On the other side there was ingrauen a cyrcle, then an Anchor with a +Dolphin winding about the strangule thereof, which I coniectured should +signifie this, <span class = "greek" title = "Greek: AEI SPEU DE +BRADEOS">ΑΕΙ ΣΠΕΥ ΔΕ ΒΡΑΔΕΟΣ</span>,<a class = "tag" name = "endtag14" +href = "#endnote14">14</a> <i>Semper festina tarde</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vnder which auncient, sure, and faire bridge, did runne a most cleare +swift water, deuiding it selfe into two seuerall currents, the one one +way and the other an other, which ranne most colde, making a soft +continuall still noyse, in their freesed, broken and nibbled Channels, +by their eaten in and furrowed bancke, full of stones, couered ouer and +shadowed with trees, their spredding rootes appearing in the same bare, +and about them hanging <i>Tricomanes</i>, <i>Adiantus</i> and +<i>Cimbalaria</i>, and bearded also with diuers small hayres as vse to +growe about the banckes of Ryuers.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The wood that I haue spoken of, was to looke vppon verye pleasant, +neyther ouer thick or more large in compasse than a man would wish, but +building a delightfull shadowe, the trees full of small birdes and +foules.</p> + +<!--png 077--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Right forwarde, the Bridge did extende it selfe, and leade towardes a +large plaine, resounding all ouer with the sweete chirpings, melodious +recordings, and loude singing of them. Wherein were leaping and running +little Sqirrels, and the drowsie Dormouse, and other harmeles +beastes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And after this manner as aforesayd, this wooddie Countrie shewed it +selfe, enuironed about with high mountaines as much as a man might looke +vnto, and the plaine couered all ouer with a fine varietie of sundrie +sweete hearbes, and the cleare channels of Charistaline streames, +sliding downe a long the hilles with a murmuring noyse into the leauell +vally.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Adorned and beautified with the flowing bitter Oliue, Lawrell, white +Poplar, and Lisimachia, blacke Pople, Alders, and wilde Ashe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the hils grew high Firre trees vnarmed, and the weeping Larix, +whereon Turpentine is made, and such like.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +When I had well considered of this so fruitfull and so commodious a +place for cattel and beasts to be fedde in and kept, (for it looked as +though it would desire a shepheardes company and a pastorall song) I +mused what should be the occasion, that so commodious a place should lye +vninhabited. And casting my eyes further on forward into the plaine +before mee, and leauing this fore discribed place, I might perceiue a +building of Marble, shewing the roofe thereof ouer the tender toppes of +the compassing trees. At the sight whereof, I grew wonderfully glad and +in good hope, that there yet I should finde some habitation and refuge. +To the which without delaie I hastined my selfe. And being come +thereunto, I found a building eight square, with a rare and wonderfull +fountaine: which was not altogither amisse. For as yet I had not +quenched and slaked my thirst.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This building was eight cornered, small towardes the top and leaded. +Vpon one side there was placed a faire stone of pure white Marble foure +cornered, half as long again as it was broad, which latitude as I +supposed was some sixe foote.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Of this goodly stone were exact two litle halfe pillers, chamfered with +their bases, holding vp a streight Sime, with a gule and adiected +denticulature & cordicules, or worke of harts, with their chapters +vnder a Trabet, Zophor and Coronice, ouer the which +<!--png 078--> +<span class = "pagenum">34</span> +<span class = "folionum">K2</span> +was a trigonall conteined, in the fourth part of the stone smooth and +plaine without any workemanship in the table thereof sauing a litle +garland, within the which were two Doues drinking in a smal vessel.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Al the space vnspoken of inclusiue was cut in and euacuated, betwixt the +Pillers the Gulature and ouerthwart Trabet, did containe an elegant +Cigrued Nimph. And vnder the Syme was another quarter wrought with +Thors, Torques, Ballons and a Plinth.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which faire Nymph laye sleeping vppon a folded cloth, lap, and wounde vp +vnder her head. An other part conuenientlie brought ouer her, to hide +that bare which was womanly & meete to be kept secret. Lying vpon +her right side with that subiected arme retract, and her open palme +vnder her faire cheeke, wherevpon she rested her head.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The other arme at libertie, lying all along ouer her left loyne, +stretching to the middle of her goodly thigh. By her smal teates (like a +yong maids) in her round brests did sprowt out smal streamings of pure +and cleare fresh water from the right brest as it had been a threed, but +from the left brest most vehemently. The fall of both of them, receiued +in a vessel of <i>Porphyrit</i> stone, with two Receptories ioyning +togither in the same vessel, seperated and distinct from the Nimph sixe +foote, standing vppon a <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘conenient’">conuenient</ins> +frame of flint stone. Betwixt either of +the receptories, there was an other vessel placed, in the which the +waters did striue togither and <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads +‘meetes’">meete</ins>, running out at the cut and appointed places, in +the middle lymbus of their Receptories, which waters comixt out of that +vessel, vnladed themselues into a little channel sliding away, and what +with one and what with the other, al the hearbes and flowres adioyning, +and about were bountifullye benifited.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +That of the left brest did spin vp so high, that it did not weat or +hinder any that would sucke or drinke of the water that streamed and +sprung out of the right brest.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And this excellent Image was so difinitelye expressed, that I feare mee +<ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: ‘Praxiteles’?"><i>Prapitiles</i></ins> +neuer perfourmed the lyke for +<!--png 079--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<i>Venus</i>, to <i>Nichomides</i> the King of <i>Caria</i> which Idoll +he appointed to be adored of his subiects, although the beauty therof +were such that it moued that filthie people to fleshly +concupiscence.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But I was perswaded that the perfection of the image of <i>Venus</i> was +nothing to this, for it looked as if a most bewtifull Ladye <ins class = +"mycorr" title = "text reads ‘in in’">in</ins> hir sleep had beene +chaunged into a stone, hir hart still panting and hir sweete lipps +readie to open, as if she would not be so vsed.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +From hir head hir loose tresses laye wauing vppon the suppressed +couering, fowlded and plited and as it were scorning the haires of the +inglomatede cloth, hir thighes of a conueniente bignes and hir fleshie +knees somwhat bending vpp, and retract <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so +in original: ‘towardes’?">towares</ins> hir.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Showing hir streight toes as it were incereating hir fingers to handle +and streine them, the rest of hir bodie aunswerable to the perfections +of these seuerall proportions.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And behind hir the shadowing of the leaffye <i>Memerill</i> or +<i>Arbut</i> full of soft small Apples and fruite, and prettye byrdes as +yf they had beene chirping and singing of hir a sleep.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At hir feet stood a satire in prurient lust vppon his gotishe feet, his +mouth and his nose ioyning together like a gote with a beard growinge on +either sides of his chin, with two peakes and shorte in the middeste +like Goates hayre, and in like manner about his flankes and his eares, +grewe hayre, with a visage adulterated betwixt a mans and a Goates, in +so rare a sort as if the excellent woorkman in his caruinge had had +presented vnto him by nature the Idea and shape of a <i>Satire</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The same <i>Satire</i>, had forciblie with his lefte hand bent an arme +of the <i>Arbut</i> tree ouer the sleepie nimphe, as if he would make +hir a fauorable shadowe therewith, and with the other hand howldinge vpp +a curtaine by one of the sides that was fastened to the body of the +tree.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Betwixt the comare <i>Meimerill</i> or <i>Arbut</i>, and the +<i>Satire</i>, were two little <i>Satires</i>, the one howlding a +bottell in his hands and the other with two snakes fowlding about his +armes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The excellencie, dilicatnes and perfection of this figment and +woorkmanshippe cannot be suffientlie expressed.</p> + +<!--png 080--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">35</span> +This also helping to adorne the sweetnes thereof that is the whitnes of +the stone, as if it had been pure iuorie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +I wondered also at the woorking of the clothe coueringe as yf it had +been wouen: and at the bowes, braunches, and leaues, and at the little +birdes, as if they had been singing and hopping vpp and downe vpon their +pretie feet in euerie ioynt single and pounce made perfect, and so the +S<i>atire</i> like wise. Vnder this rare and woonderfull carued woork +betwixt the gulatures and vnduls in the plaine smothe was grauen in +<i>Atthic</i> characters this poesye <span class = "greek" title = +"Greek: PANTA TO KADI">ΠΑΝΤΑ ΤΟ ΚΑΔΙ</span>.<a class = "tag" name = +"endtag15" href = "#endnote15">15</a></p> + +<!--png 081--> +<p class = "illustration"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<img src = "images/page_35v.jpg" width = "360" height = "491" +alt = "image as described in text"><br> + <br> +<span class = "greek" title = "Greek: PANTÔN TO KADI">ΠΑΝΤΩΝ ΤΟ +ΚΑΔΙ</span><a class = "tag" name = "endtag16" href = "#endnote16">16</a> +</p> + +<!--png 082--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">36</span> +The thirst which I had gotten the daie before was so increased, that I +was prouoked now to slacken the same, or rather inticed with the faire +beautie of the instrument, the coolenes whereof was such, as betwixt my +lippes me thought it stirred and trembled.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And rounde about this pleasant place, and by the pipplyng channels, grew +<i>Vaticinium</i>, <i>Lilly conuallie</i>, and the flowring +<i>Lysimachia</i> or willow hearbe, the sorrowfull Reedes, Myntes, water +Parsley, Baume, <i>Hydrolapathos</i>, or water Sorrell, and other +approued hearbes, and fine floures, a little Channel comming by a sluce +from the Bridge, entering in and vnlading it selfe, was the cause of a +goodly faire Poole, broad and large, in a verie good order, trimmed +about and beautified with a fence of sweete Roses and Gessamine. And +from thence running ouer it, dispersed it selfe, nourishyng and visiting +the nexte adioyning fieldes and grounde, abounding in all sortes of +hearbes, floures, fruites, and trees.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There grewe also great store of <i>Cynarie</i> grateful to <i>Venus</i>, +wylde <i>Tansie</i>, <i>Colocassia</i>, with leaues like a shielde, and +garden hearbes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And from thence beholding the plaine fieldes, it was woonderfull to see +the greennes thereof, powdered with such varietie of sundrie sorted +colours, and diuers fashioned floures, as yealow Crowfoote, or golden +Knop, Oxeye, <i>Satrion</i> Dogges stone, the lesser Centorie, Mellilot, +Saxifrage, Cowslops, Ladies fingers, wilde Cheruile, or shepheardes +Needle, <i>Nauens</i> Gentil, Sinquifolie Eyebright, Strawberies, with +floures and fruites, wilde Columbindes Agnus Castus, Millfoyle, Yarrow, +wherewith <i>Achilles</i> did heale <i>Telephus</i>, and the rust of the +same speares head that hurt him. Withe the white Muscarioli, bee floures +and Panenentes in so beautifull and pleasant manner, that they did +greatly comfort mee (hauing lost my selfe) but euen with the looking +vppon them. And heere and there in a measurable and wel disposed +distaunce and space betweene. In a conuenient order and sweete disposed +sort by a iust line, grew the greene and sweete smelling Orenges, +Lymons, Citrons, Pomegranettes, their water boughes bendyng downe within +one pace of the ground, couered with leaues of a glassie greene colour, +of a great height +<!--png 083--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +and turning downe againe their toppes, laden with the aboundance of +their floure and fruites, breathing forth a most sweet and delectable +odoriferous smell. Wherwithall my appaled heart did not verie lightly +reuiue himselfe (it might bee in a pestilent ayre and contagious and +deadly sauour.)</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For which cause I stood amazed and in great doubt what to thinke or doo, +and the rather because in that place I had seene such a marueilous +fountaine, the varietie of hearbes, the colours of floures, the placing +orderly of the trees, the faire and commodious disposition of the seat, +the sweet chirpings and quiet singing of Birds, and the temperate and +healthful ayre. And which I could verie well haue been contented +withall, and the worst of them might wel haue contented me, if I had +found any inhabitant there. And somewhat I was grieued that I could no +longer abide in such a place where so many delightful sightes did +present themselues vnto mee. Neither was I aduised to my better safetie +and content which way to turne me.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Standing thus in such a suspence of minde, calling to remembraunce the +daunger that I had lastlye escaped, and the present place that I was +newlye entered into, and thinking vppon hieragliphes that I did see in +the left side of the bridge, I was in doubt, to hasten my selfe towards +any vnaduised aduers accident, And that such a monument and warning +woorthie of golden letters, should not be set in vaine to them that +passed by, which was <i>Semper festina tarde</i>. Behold of a sodaine +behinde me, I heard a rusling noyse, like the winde or beating of a +Dragons winges. Alas I knew not what it should bee. And sodeinly +ispasurated and turning my selfe about, I might perceiue vpon one side +of me many silique trees of <i>Aegypt</i>, with their ripe long coddes +hanging and beating one against an other with the winde, had felled +downe themselues, which when I perceiued, I was soone quieted, and +beganne to make sport at my owne folly.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +I had not continued long thus, but I <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘hard’">heard</ins> a singing company of gallant damoselles +comming towardes mee (by their voyces of young and tender yeares) and +faire (as I thought) solacing and sporting themselues among the +flowering hearbes and fresh coole shadow, free from the suspect of any +mans sight, and making in their Gate a great applause <ins class = +"mycorr" title = "text unclear">among</ins> the pleasant flowers. The +incredible +<!--png 084--> +<span class = "pagenum">37</span> +<span class = "folionum">L</span> +sweetnesse of hir musicall and consonant voyce, conueighed in the +roriferous ayre, and spredding it selfe abroade with the aunswerable +sounde and delectable report of a warbeling harpe (for the tryall of +which noueltie, I couched downe vnder the lowe bowghes of the next +adioining bushes, and saw them come towardes mee with gratious gestures) +hir Maydenlie head attyred and bound vp in fillets of glystering gould, +and instrophiated redimited, garnished ouer and beset with floured +mirtle, and vpon hir snowye foreheade, branched out hir trembling curled +lockes, and about hir fayrest showlders, flew her long tresses after a +nymphish fashion artyfitiallye handeled.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +They were apparrelled in carpanticall habites of fine sylke of sondrye +coulers, and weauinges of three sorts, one shorter, and distinct from +the other. The nethermost of purple, the next of greene silke, & +goulde or tissew, and the <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘vppermst’">vppermost</ins> +of curled white sendall, gyrded about their +smale wastes with girdles of goulde vnder the lower partes of their +round breasts. Their sleeues of the same curled Sendall, often doubled, +which bettered and graced the subiect couler. And tyed about their +wrists with ribands of silke, tagged with Gouldsmithes woorke. And some +of them with Pantophles vpon their shooes, the vpper part of the +Pantophle of gould and purple silke, leafe worke, shewing thorough +betwixt the voyde spaces of the leaues, the fine proportion of their +prittie illaquiated and contayned feete. Their shooes comming straightly +vnder their anckles, with two lappes meeting vpon their insteps, and +closed fast eyther with Buttons or claspes of gowld after a fine manner. +Aboue the hemmes of theyr nether garments, there compassed about insteed +of gardes and imbrodered woorke of hearts, which now and then blowne vp +with the gentle ayre, made a discouerie of their fine legges.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And assoone as they were aware of mee, they left of their song and +stayed theyr <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘nimpish’">nimphish</ins> +gates, being amazed with the insighte, and of +my comming into this place, maruelling together, and whisperinglye +enquiring of me, one of another, for I seemed vnto them a rare and +vnusuall thing, because I was an aliant and stranger, and by chaunce +come in to so famous and renowmed a countrie. Thus they staide still, +sometimes looking downe vpon me, & +<!--png 085--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +again muttering one to an other, I stood still like an image. Oh wo was +me, for I felt all my ioynts quake like the leaues of an Aspe, in a +bitter winde. And I was affraide of the presaging poesie that I had +read, otherwise aduising me, whereof I now thought to late to experience +the effect thereof, and looking for no other euent, I remained as +doubtfull of the deuine vision, therewith as much deceyued as +<i>Semele</i> with the fayned shape of the <i>Epidaurean Beroe</i>. Alas +I trembled and shooke like the fearefull hinde calues at the sight of +the tawnie Lyons roring out for hunger.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Contending and striuing with my selfe, whether it were better for me +submissiuely to kneele downe, or els to turne me about and flye from +them<ins class = "mycorr" title = "text has ‘ )’"> (</ins>for they +seemed to mee by their behauiour, to <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘courteons’">courteous</ins> young women, and besides their +humanitie of a deuine <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original">beningnitie</ins>) +or to remaine still vnmoueable. At length I +determined to make tryall, and put my selfe forwarde to whatsoeuer would +follow, being very well assured, that by no means I should finde any +inhumanitie or cruell dealing by any of them, and especially, because +that innocencie carryeth alwayes his protection with him. And thus +somewhat comforting my fearefull minde, and yet restrained with +shamefastnesse, knowing that I was vnwoorthily come into this shadowie +place, and solicious company of deuine and delicate nimphes, my guiltie +and troubled minde, telling mee that it was rashly and ouer-bouldly +doone, and that they were it might be, prohibited places, and a +forbidden countrie for a straining to frequent. And thinking thus and +thus with my selfe: one amongst the rest of a more boulde and audatious +spirite, very hardly spake vnto me, saying. Ho who art thou? at hir +speeche I was halfe afraide, and of my selfe ashamed, both ignorant what +to say, or howe to aunswer: my voyce and spirit being interdicted, I +stoode stone still like a dead image. But the fayre Damsels and +beautifull Nimphes well aduised, that in me was a reall and humaine +personage and shape, but distempered and afrayde, they drew all of them +more neerer vnto me, saying.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Thou young man, whatsoeuer thou art, and from whencesoeuer thou art +come: Let not our present aspects any whit dismay thee, or occasion thy +discouragement nor be no whit afrayde, for here thou shalt not finde any +cruell customes, or cause of discontent, but free from displeasures, and +therefore be not afrayde to +<!--png 086--> +<span class = "pagenum">38</span> +<span class = "folionum">L2</span> +discouer thy selfe, and tell vs what thou art.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +By this motion hauing called backe againe my forgotten and lost sences, +comforted with their faire, pleasant, and fauourable aspects, and +recouering my selfe with their sweet speeches, with a very good will I +made this aunswer vnto them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +I am the most disgraced and vnhappiest louer that the whole world can +aforde. I loue, and she whom so greatly I esteeme, and so earnestly I +desire, I neyther know where eyther she or my selfe is.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And by the greatest and most daungerous hap that can be imagined I am +come hither. And now with prouoked teares downe falling from my waterie +eyes along my pale cheekes, and bowed downe to the earth prostrating my +selfe to your virginall feete I humblie craue and sue for your +fauourable graces: whereat theyr soft and tender heartes mooued with +pittie towardes mee, and halfe weeping with mee for companie, and as it +were dutifullye striuing with theyr armes to lift mee vp from the +grounde, with sweete and comfortable speeches, they courteouslye spake +vnto me.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Wee are certainly perswaded and know full well (poore wretch) that few +or none can escape by that way which thou art come, and therefore bee +not vnthankfull to that diuine power, which hath thus preserued thee. +And now be not doubtfull or afrayde of any aduers accident or greefe to +assaile thee. Therefore quyet, comfort, and settle thy heart to rest. +For nowe thou art come as thou mayest euidently perceiue, and plainely +see, into a place of pleasure and delight, abandoning strife and +discontent. For our vniformed ages: the seate vnchaungeable, the time +not stealing away, the good oportunitie, the gratious and sotiable +familiaritie, inticingly dooth allure vs therevnto, and graunteth vnto +vs a continuall leysure. And this also thou must vnderstand, that if one +of vs be merrie and delightsome, the other sheweth her selfe the more +glad and pleasaunt, and our delectable and perticipated friendship, is +with an attentiue consideration perpetually vnyted and knitte together. +One of vs increasing an others content, to the highest degree of +delight, and moste conuenyent solace.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Thou seest also that the ayre is healthfull, the lymittes and +<!--png 087--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +bounds of this place verie large: of hearbes full of varietie. Of plants +diuerslie abounding, and with fruites plentifully laden, inuironed and +defended with huge mountaines and rockes, well stored with harmelesse +beasts, and fitte for all pastimes and pleasures, replenished with all +kinde of fruites and graynes, vniuersally growing, and full of goodly +fountaines.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +An other said: vnderstand, vnknowne, (and yet assured guest,) good +friend, that this territorie is more fruitfull then the fertill +mountaine <i>Taurus</i> in the aquilonall asspect, whose frame dooth +swell so much, that their clusters of grapes bee two cubits long, and +that one Figtree will beare seauentie bushels.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The third: this famous and spatious countrey, exceedeth the fertilitie +of the Hyperborean Island in the West India, or the portugalles of +<i>Lucitania</i>, <ins class = "mycorr" title = "phrase not in Italian +text">nowe vsurped and tyrannized by the insolent Spanyard.</ins></p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nor <i>Talga</i> in the <i>Caspian</i> mountaine. The fourth affirmed in +hir commendation of that countrie, that the plentifulnesse of Egypt was +but to be accounted scarsitie, in respect of that although that it were +thought to be the garden of the world.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the last, of a choyse countenance and sweete <ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘pronuntiaon’">pronuntiation</ins> aboue the rest, +added thus much, saying.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In this fayre countrie you shall not finde any large fennie groundes, or +offensiue and sicklye ayres, or craggie and fertlesse mosses, but faire +and pleasaunt hilles, inuironed and walled about with steip and +vnpassageable rockes, and by meanes thereof, secure and free from all +daungers and feare, we want not any thing which may breed delight, and +cause a sweete content. Besides all this wee are attendant vppon a +renowned and most excellent Queene of large bountie and exceeding +liberalitie: called <i>Euterilyda</i> of great pittie and meruelous +clemencie, ruling with great wisdome, and with a kingly gouernement, +with great pompe, in an accumolated heape of all felicitie, and shee +wyll bee greatly delighted, when we shall present thee vnto hir sacred +presence, and maiesticall sight. And therefore cast away, shake of, and +forget all afflicting sorrowe, and frame thy selfe and thy affrighted +spyrits to intertaine of our comforts solace and pleasure.</p> + + + + +<!--png 088--> +<p class = "intro"> +<span class = "pagenum">39</span> +<span class = "folionum">L3</span> +Poliphilus feeling himselfe vnder the assurance of the five Nymphes, +went with them to the bathes where they had great laughter in the deuise +of the fountaine, and also by his vnction. Afterward being brought to +the Queene Eutherillida, he did see many thinges worthie of regard, but +chiefly the worke of a fountaine.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capI_1.jpg" align = "left" +width = "178" height = "171" alt = "I"> +<span class = "hidden">I</span> Being thus curteously intreated of these +gracious and pitiful Nymphes, and hauing my safetie by them sufficiently +warranted with sweet comforts, reuiuing my decaied spirites. To +whatsoeuer might seeme grateful and pleasing vnto them, so much as was +conuenient for mee, I framed my selfe to offer my seruice. And because +that they had boxes of sweete perfumes, and casting bottels of golde and +precious stone, looking Glasses in their delicate and faire handes, and +pure white Vailes of silke plited and folded vp, and other necessaries +to bee vsed in bathing, which I offering to helpe them to beare, they +refusing say thus vnto mee: that their comming into this place was to +bathe, and therewith shewed mee that it was their pleasure that I should +goe with them, for (saide they) the fountaine is here hard by, haue <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘yon’">you</ins> not seene it. And +I reuerently made them this answere.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Most faire Nimphes, if I had a thousande tongues and knew how to vse +them al, yet could I not render sufficient thankes for your gracious +desertes, and make requital of your great fauours, because you haue +restored vnto mee my life. And therefore if I should not consent and +yeeld vnto you my seruice and company, I might wel bee accounted of a +churlish disposition. For which cause, amongst you I had rather be a +seruant, then in an other place a Lord and commander, for that (so farre +as I can coniecture) you are the tenantes and chamberfellowes of al +delight and true felicitie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +You shal vnderstand that I did see a maruerlous fountaine of a rare and +wonderful workemanship, as neuer before my eyes did beholde, and so much +my minde was occupied in the regard +<!--png 089--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +of the straungenes thereof, and to quench my great thirst, that I did +looke for no further benefit.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +One pleasant Nymphe spake thus merrily vnto mee saying, giue mee thy +hand, thou art verie welcome. Thou seest at this present here, that we +are fiue companions, +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +These nimphs were his fiue sences.</span> +<!----> +and I am called <i>Aphea</i>, and she that carrieth the boxes and white +cloathes <i>Offressia</i>. This other with the shining Glasse (our +delightes) her name is <i>Orassia</i>. Shee that carrieth the sounding +Harpe is called <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in +original"><i>Achol</i></ins>, and shee that beareth the casting bottle +of precious Lyquor, is called <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in +original"><i>Genshra</i></ins>. And we are al now going togither to +these temperate bathes, to refresh and delight our selues. Therefore you +also (seeing that it is your good hap to bee amongst vs) shal bee +willing to doo the like, and afterwardes with a verie good wil wee wil +make our repaire to the great Pallais of our soueraigne.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Who is most merciful, bountiful, and liberal, and willing to helpe and +further you, in your intended loues, burning desires, and high +conceites. Plucke vp a good heart, man, come let vs goe on.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +With pleasurable actions, maydenly iestures, swasiuious behauiours, +girlish sportes, wanton regardes, and with sweet vvords they ledde mee +on thither, beeing vvel content vvith euerie present action, but that my +<i>Polia</i> vvas not there to the suppliment of my felicitie, and to +haue been the sixt person in the making vp of a perfect number.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Further, I found my selfe agrieued, that my apparel vvas not conformable +to this delicious confort, but grovving into some houshold familiaritie, +I disposed my self to be affable vvith them, and they with mee, til at +last wee came to the place.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There I behelde a marueilous buildyng of a bathe eight square, and at +euerye Exterior corner, there were doubled together twoo Pyles, in +fashion of a Pyke, from the leuell of the foundation, the subiect +Areobates Circumcinct and ribbed about. And after them followed the +vtmost of like bignes from the ground of the other, with their chapters +set vnder the streight beame, with a border aboue, vnder a Coronice +going round about. Which border was beautified with excellent carued +worke, of litle naked children passing wel set forth, and equally +distant one from an other, with their handes intricately +<!--png 090--> +<span class = "pagenum">40</span> +tyed and wrapped about, and in them holding little bundels of smal +greene boughes instrophiated togither. And aboue the said Coronice, did +mount vp (by an elegant arching) an eight square Spyer, imitating the +subiect. Which from corner to corner was cut through with a marueilous +workemanship of a thousand sundrie fashions, and closed againe with +quarrels of Christal, which a farre of I did take to bee <i>L</i>eade. +Vpon the top of which arched Spyer was placed a Trygon, and from the +vpper center thereof, did ascend vp a strong steale, wherinto was ioyned +an other steale whiche was turned about, and to the same was fastened a +wyng, which with euerie blast of winde tarried about, the piping steale +which had vpon the top thereof a ball, whereupon stood a naked Boy, +streight vpon his right foote, and the left holden out. His head was +hollow to his mouth like a Tunnel, with the Orifice euacuated to his +mouth, to the which was sowdered a Trompet, with his left hand holding +the <i>L</i>anquet to his mouth, & his right hand extending towardes +the middle ioynt, iust ouer the pinyon of it the wing or fane. Al which +was of thinne brasse, excellently wel cast and guilt. Which wing, ball, +and boye, with his cheekes and countenance as if hee were sounding, with +the hinder part of his head euacunated towardes the blustring winde, as +that blew, so he sounded, and as the winde caused a strange noyse among +the rods of <i>Siliques</i> of <i>Egypt</i>, euen so did it heare in the +Trumpet. Vppon which cause I merily thought to my selfe, that a man +being alone in an vnknowne place and out of quiet, may easilie bee +afrighted with such like strange noyses.</p> + +<!--png 091--> +<p class = "illustration floatleft"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<img src = "images/pic_40v.jpg" width = "182" height = "440" +alt = "boy with trumpet as described in text"></p> + +<p class = "main"> +In that part of the building that was on the other side of the Nimph was +the enteraunce into the bathe perfourmed as mee thought by the same +Lithoglyphe, that couered the sleepyng Nimphe, vppon the phrise whereof, +were certaine Greeke Caracters, signifying <span class = "greek" title = +"Greek: ASAMINTHOS">ΑΣΑΜΙΝΘΟΣ</span>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Within there were foure seates whiche went rounde about, and one vnder +an other, and close knitte togither, wroght with Iasper and Calcedony +stone, in all kinde of colours. Two of the cõpassing about seates were +couered ouer with water, and to the vpper margine of the third. In the +corners, & in euerry corner stoode a Chorinthian Collumne of diuers +colours, waued with so pure & beautiful Iacintes as nature could +affoord, with conuenient bases and their chapters curiously made vnder +the beame, ouer the which was a <i>Zophor</i>, wherein were carued +little naked Boyes playing in the water, with water monsters, with +wrastling and childish strifes, with cunning flights and agilities fit +for their yeares, in liuely motions +<!--png 092--> +<span class = "pagenum">41</span> +<span class = "folionum">M</span> +and sportes. Al which was beautiful ouer compassed about with a +Coronice<ins class = "mycorr" title = "punctuation invisible">. +</ins>Ouer the which, according to the order of the little Collumies, +from the perpendicular poynt in the toppe of the Cupul or Suffite and +couer of the Bathe, there went a Tore moderator, increasing bigger and +bigger of Oke leaues, one folding and lying ouer an other of greene +Diasper hanging vppon their braunshing stalkes gilt, which ascending vp +met togither, and ioyned rounde in the aforesaide Cupul: where was +placed a <i>L</i>yons head, with his haire standing vp round about his +face, and holding a Ring in his iawes, vnto the whiche were fastened +certaine chaines Orichalke or Copper, that held a large goodly vessel, +with a great braine or lyp, and furrowed of the aforesaide shyning +substance, and hangyng two Cubites aboue the water, the bowle of the +vessel which was of Christal onely except, the rest as the ribbes +thereof and lippings, was of Asure blew, with bubbles of gold and +shining sprinkled here and there.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Not farre of, there was a cleft in the earth, the which continually did +cast foorth burning matter, and taking of this, and filling the bottome +of the vessel, they did put certaine ginnes and sweet woods which made +an inestimable suffumigation, as of the sweetest past, afterwardes +closing the same, and putting downe the couer, both partes being holow, +and the lipping and ribbing perforated and pearced through the +transparent, Christal cleare and bright, they rendered a pleasant and +diuers coulered light, by the which through the smal holes the bathes +were lightened, and the heate stil incarcerated and interdicted.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The wal equally interposite betwixt Columne, and Columne was of most +blacke stone, of an extreame hardnes and shining, incloystered about and +bordered with a conuenient border of Diasper redde as Coral, adorned +with a Lyneament and worke of double Gurgules or Verticules. In the +middle part of which table, betwixt the Collumnes, there sate an elegant +Nymph naked, as if she had been staying and attending of the stone +Gallatitis, of colour like Iuorie, the lower partes of euerie of the +said borders, <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘circulatiug’">circulating</ins> +iustly with the bases of the +Collumnes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh how exsquitely were the same Images cut, that oftentimes my eyes +would wander from the real and liuely shapes, to looke vpon those feyned +representations.</p> + +<!--png 093--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +The paued ground vnder the water being of a diuers emblemature of hard +stone, checkered where you might see marueilous graphics through the +diuersitie of the colours. For the cleare water and not sulphurous, but +sweete and temperatelye hotte, not like a Hotte-house or Stew, but +naturally cleansing it selfe beyond all credet, there was no meanes to +hinder the obiect from the sight of the eye. For diuers fishes in the +sides of the seates, and in the bottom by a museacall cutting expressed, +which did so imitate nature as if they had beene swimming aliue. As +barbles, lampreys, and many others, the curiousnes of whose woorke I +more regarded, then their names and natures.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The black stone of the walles was ingrauen with a leafe worke, as if it +had beene an illaqueated composition of leaues and flowers, and the +little shelles of cytheriaces, so beautifull to the eye, as was possible +to be deuised.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the doore, the interstice whereof was of stone called Gallactites, +I beheld a Dolphin swimming in the calme waues, and carrying vpon his +back a young man, playing vpon an harpe: And on the contrarie side vpon +the colde Fountaine, there was an other dolphin swimming, and +<i>Posidonius</i> riding vpon him with a sharpe elle speare in his +hand.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +These histories were perfected within the compasse of one selfe same +stone, and set out in a most blacke ground. Then deseruedly I did +commend, both the archytect and the statuarie. On the other side, the +pleasant dignitie of the fayre and beautiful sporting nimphes did +highlye content mee, so as I could not compare to thinke whether the +excesse of my passed sorrow, or present solace should be greatest. And +there was so sweete a smell as Arabia neuer yeelded the like.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the seates of stone, in steed of an Apodyterie, they did +impouerish theyr apparrell, richely inuoluped, in the casting of it off, +from their celestiall bodyes. Theyr fayre tresses bound vp in nettings +of gould, wouen after a most curious sort. And without any respect at +all, they gaue mee leaue to looke vpon theyr fayre and delicate +personages, theyr honestie and honour reserued. Flesh vndoubtedly like +the pure Roses and white Snowe. Ah woe is me, I found my heart to rise +and open it selfe, and altogether +<!--png 094--> +<span class = "pagenum">42</span> +<span class = "folionum">M2</span> +to be adicted to a voluptuous delight. Wherevpon I at that present +thought my selfe most happie, onely in the behoulding of such delights, +because I was not able to resist the burning flames which did set vpon +mee in the fornace of my heart. And therefore sometime for a refuge and +succour I durst not looke so narrowly vppon theyr inticing beauties, +heaped vp in their heauenly bodyes. And they perceiuing the same did +smile at my bashful behauiour, making great sport at me: And thereat I +was glad, and contented that I might any way occasion their pastime. But +I was greatly ashamed, in that I was an vnfit companion for such a +company, but that they intreated mee to enter in with them where I stood +like a Crowe among white Doues, which made me partly ashamed to behould, +and ouerlooke such choyse obiects.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then <i>Offressia</i> a very pleasant disposed piece, said vnto mee. Tel +me young man what is your name? And I reuerently aunswered them, +<i>Poliphilus</i>: it will please me well saith she, if the effect of +your conditions be aunswerable to your name. And without deceit, said +the rest. And how is your dearest loue called? Whereat I making some +pause, aunswered, <i>Polia</i>: then she replyed. A ha I thought that +your name should signifie that you were a great louer, but now I +perceiue that you are a louer of <i>Polia</i>: and presently shee added +more, saying: if shee were heere present, what would you doo? I +aunswered. That which were agreeable with hir honour, and fit for your +companies. Tel me <i>Poliphilus</i> doest thou loue hir wel indeed? Then +I setting a deepe sigh, aunswered: beyond all the delights and cheefest +substance of the greatest and most pretious treasure in the whole world, +and this opinion hath made an euerlasting impression in my still +tormented heart. And she: where haue you lost or abandoned so loued a +iewel? I know not, neyther where I am my selfe I know. Then she smyling +aunswered. If any should finde hir out for you, what rewarde would you +giue. But content thy selfe, be of good comfort, and frame thy selfe to +delights, for thou shalt finde thy <i>Polia</i> againe. And with these +and such like pleasaunt and gratious questions, these fayre young +Virgins, sporting and solacing themselues, we washt and bathed +together.</p> + +<!--png 095--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +At the opposite interstice of the beautifull fountaine without, of the +faire sleeping Nymph before mentioned, within the Bathe there was +another of <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘scatnes’">scatues</ins> +of fine mettal, and of a curious workemanship, +glistering of a golden colour, that one might see himselfe therein. +Which were fastened in a Marble, cut into a squadrature, and euacuated +for the Images to stand in their proportions, with two halfe Collumnes +that is Hemiciles, one of either side, with a Trabet, a smal Zophor, and +a Coronice, all cut in one sollid Marble, and this peece of worke was +nothing inferior to any of the rest, which before I had seene, but with +a rare art, and marueilous inuention, both deuised and performed. In the +voyd and plaine euacuated quadret, there stood two Nimphes, little lesse +then if they had been liuely creatures, apparelled, so as you might see +somewhat aboue their knees, vppon one of theyr legges, as if the winde +had blowne it vp, as they were doing theyr office, and their armes bare, +from the elbow to the shoulder except. And vpon that arme, wherewith +they sustained the Boye, the habite that was lifted vp was reiect. The +feete of the Infant stood one in one of the handes of the Nymphes, and +the other, in the others hand. All their three countenances smiling: and +with their other handes, they held vp the Boyes shirt, aboue his +nauil.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Infant holding his little Instrument in both his hands, and +continued pissing into the hotte water, fresh coole water. In this +delicious place of pleasure, I was verie iocund and full of content, but +the same was much apalled, in that I thought my selfe a contemptible +bodie, among such beauties, and dewe coniealed into Snowe, and as it +were a Negro or tawnye Moore amongst them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +One of them called <i>Achoe</i>, verie affably and with a pleasant +countenance said vnto mee, <i>Poliphile</i> take that Christal vessel +and bring mee some of that fresh water. I without staie intending to do +so, and thinking nothing, but to do her seruice in any sort that she +would commaund me, went to the place. And I had no sooner set my foote +vpon the steppe, to receiue the water, as it fell, but the pissing Boye +lift vp his pricke, and cast sodeinlye so colde water vppon my face, +that I had lyke at that instant to haue fallen backward. Whereat they so +laughed, and it made +<!--png 096--> +<span class = "pagenum">43</span> +<span class = "folionum">M3</span> +such a sounde in the roundnes and closenes of the bathe, that I also +beganne (when I was come to my selfe) to laugh that I was almost dead. +Afterward, I founde out the concauitie, and perceiued that any heauy +weight, being put vpon the moueable stepping, that it would rise vp like +the Keye and Iacke of a Virginall, and lift vp the Boyes pricke, and +finding out the deuise and curious workemanship thereof, I was greatly +contented. Vpon the Zophor was written in <i>Atthic</i> letters this +title <span class = "greek" title = "Greek: +GELOIASTOS">ΓΕΛΟΙΑΣΤΟΣ</span>.</p> + +<!--png 097--> +<p class = "illustration"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<img src = "images/page_43v.jpg" width = "369" height = "497" +alt = "picture with text ΓΕΛΟΙΑΣΤΟΣ (GELOIASTOS)"></p> + +<!--png 098--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">44</span> +After our great laughter and bathing, and all hauing washed with a +thousand sweete, amorous, and pleasant wordes, maydenly sportes, and +pastimes, wee went out of the water, and leapt vp vppon the accustomed +seates, tripping on their toes, where they did annoynt themselues with +sweete Odours, Diasdasmatic, and with a Myristic liquor, or water of +Nutmegges. And they offered a boxe vnto mee also, and I annoynted my +selfe therewithall, and I founde great pleasure therein, for besides the +excellent smel and sweete sauour, it was verie good to comfort my bodie, +legges, and armes, that had been so wearied in my daungerous flight.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Afterward when we had made ourselues redy, which was somwhat long after +the manner of other women, by reason of so many gewgawes and gimmerie +whatchets, they did open their vesselles of daintie confections, and +refreshed themselues, and I amongst them, and with precious drinke. When +they had eaten sufficiently, they returned againe to their looking +Glasses, with a scrupulous examination, about their bodies, and the +attire of their heades, and dressing of their yealow curling haires +depending, and hemicirculately instrophiated about their diuine faces. +And when they had made an ende, they sayde vnto mee.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Poliphilus</i>, wee are now going vnto our gratious and most +excellent Souereigne the Queene <i>Eutherillida</i>, where you shal +finde and conceiue greater delight, but the water is still in your face, +whereat they beganne to renew their laughter, without all measure at +mee, glauncing and turning their eyes one to an other, with a louely +regarde. At last they set foorth, and as they went rounde togither, they +beganne to sing verses in a Phrygial tune, of a pleasaunt metamorphosing +of one, who with an oyntment thought to haue transfourmed himselfe into +a Byrd, and by mistakyng of the Boxe, was turned into a rude Asse.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Concludyng, that manye tooke Oyntmentes to one purpose, and founde the +effecte to contrarie their expectations.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Whereat I beganne to be in a doubt, that they had sung that by mee, +because that they still smiled as they turned towardes mee. But seeing +that I perceiued no alteration in my selfe, +<!--png 099--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +but wel I was contented to let them laugh on. Vpon a sodaine I founde my +selfe so lasciuiously bent, and in such a prurient lust, that which way +so euer I turned, I could not forbeare, and they as they sung laughed +the more, knowing what had happened vnto mee. And it did so increase in +mee more and more, that I knew not wherewithal I might bridle and +restraine my selfe from catching of one of them, like an eager and hotte +Falcon comming downe out of the ayre, vpon a couie of Partriges. I was +with such a violent desire prickt forwarde, which I felt more and more +to increase in a sault burning. And the more I was to that venerious +desire by the violent offers of so oportune and sweete obiects. A foode +for suche a pernitious plague, and vnexperienced burning.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then one of these flamigerous Nymphes named <i>Aphea</i>, said vnto mee, +How is it <i>Poliphilus</i>? Euen now I did see you verye merry, what +hath altered your disposition? I answered. Pardon mee that I binde and +vexe my selfe more then a willow Garland. Giue mee leaue to destroy my +selfe in a lasciuious fire. And thereat they burst out all in a laughter +and said, Ah ha, and if your desired <i>Polia</i>, if shee were here, +what would you do, how? Alas my desire, euen by the deitie which you +serue, I beseech you put not Flaxe and Rosin to the fire, whiche burneth +mee out of all measure. Put no Pitch to the fire in my heart, make me +not to forget my selfe I beseech you.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At this my lamentable and sorrowing answere, they were prouoked to such +a loude laughter, wherin they did exceed so much, that neither they nor +my selfe with the wearines thereof could goe any further, but were +constrained to rest our selues for want of breath, vpon the odoriferous +floures & coole grasse, by meanes whereof, I became somewhat +oportunely to bee eased, my heate aswaging and relenting by little and +little.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And as they thus contentedly rested themselues a while, vnder the coole +vmbrage of the leafie Trees, I beganne to bee bolde with them saying. O +you women, that are burners and destroyers, doo you vse mee thus? See +what an offered occasion I haue, which wil holde mee excused, to breake +foorth and doo violence vnto you. And thereupon somewhat boldly moouing +my selfe and fayning as if I would haue done that which by no meanes I +<!--png 100--> +<span class = "pagenum">45</span> +<span class = "folionum">N</span> +durst, but then with a newe pastyme and laughter they called one for an +others helpe, leauing heere and there their golden Pantoffles and +Vailes, to bee carried about with the winde, and their vesselles +neclected in the grasse, they ranne all awaye, and I after them, that I +might well perceiue that they had neither crampes nor stringhawldes or +leaden heeles, and thus continuing our pastimes a pretie space, being +somewhat pleased that I had made them to runne. I returned backe to +gather vp their Pantophles and such things as they had scattered behind +them. And comming neare to a fresh coole Riuer, they began to cease off +from laughter, and to take pittie vppon mee, and <i>Geussia</i> behinde +all the rest, bowed her selfe downe to the water, beautifully adorned +with the bendyng Bull Rushe, water Spyke, swimmyng Vitrix, and +aboundaunce of water Symples, shee dyd plucke vp the <i>Heraclea</i> +Nympha, of some called water Lillye or <i>Nenuphar</i>, and the roote of +Aron or wake Robyn, of, some, <i>Pes vituli</i> or <i>Serpentaria +Minor</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And <i>Amella</i> or Bawme Gentill, all whiche grew very neare togither +and not farre distant, whiche shee fauourably offered vnto mee saying, +of these whiche I haue made choyse of take, and for my freedome +taste.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For whiche cause I refused the <i>Nenuphar</i>, and reiected the +Dracuncle for his heate, and accepted of the <i>Amella</i>, whiche shee +had cleane washed, by meanes whereof, within a verye short space, I +founde my venerious Lubric and incensing spurre of desire to leaue of, +and my intemperate luste was cleane gone.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Vnlawfull concupiscence blindeth a man, and driueth his sences from +him.</span> +And when my vnlawfull desires of the fleshe were brideled, the pleasant +Nymphes came againe to mee, and as wee walked on, wee came into a +frequented place, and wonderfully fruitfull.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And there in a fine order and appointed distance was a waye set on +either sides with Cyprus Trees, with their corner clefted Apples, and as +thicke with leaues as their nature will suffer them, the leauell grounde +beeyng couered all ouer, with greene Vinca Peruima, or Lawreoll and +Chamme, +<!--png 101--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<i>Daphne</i>, and full of his asurine flowers. Which adorned way of a +meete and conuenient breadth, did lead directly on into a greene +Closure, from the beginning of whiche walke, iust betwixt the Cyprus +Trees, to the entrance and opening of the aforesaide enclosure, was some +foure furlonges. Vnto which enclosure when wee came, I founde it +equilaterall, with three fences like a streight wall, as high as the +Cyprus Trees vpon either sides of the waye, that wee had passed along +in: which was altogither of Cytrons, Orenges and Lymonds, bushing with +their leaues one within an other, and artifitially knitte and twisted +togither, and the thicknes mee thought of sixe foote: with a Gate in the +middest of the same Trees, so wel composed as is either possible to bee +thought or done. And aboue in conuenient places were made windowes, by +meanes whereof, the bowghes in those places were to be seene bare, but +for their greene leaues which yeelded a most sweet and pleasant verdure. +Betwixt the curious twistings of the braunches and their greene leaues, +the white flowers did aboundantly shewe themselues a singular Ornament, +breathing foorth a most delectable and sweete odour. And to please the +eye, the faire fruite was in no place wanting, where it should yeelde +content. And afterwardes I might perceiue, that in the interstitious +thicknes, the bowghes (not without a wonderful woorke) were so +artificially twisted and growne togither, that you might assend vp by +them, and not bee seene in them, nor yet the way where you +went vp.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At length comming into this greene and delightful grounde to the eye, +and in a mans vnderstanding woorthie of estimation, I perceiued that it +was a great enclosure in the fore front of a marueilous Pallaice of a +noble simmetriated architecturie which of this frondiferous conclausure, +was the fourth part in longitude sixtie paces. And this was the +<i>Hypæthri</i> to walke in, for open ayre.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the middest of this great base Court, I did behold a goodly Fountaine +of cleare water<ins class = "mycorr" title = "punctuation invisible">, +</ins>spinnyng from the verie toppe as it were to the foundation<ins +class = "mycorr" title = "punctuation invisible">, </ins>whiche stoode +vpon a smoothe pauement through little streight Pypes, falling into a +hollowed vessel, whiche was of most pure Amethist, whose Diameter +conteined three paces, the thicknes agreeing therewithall, leauyng +<!--png 102--> +<span class = "pagenum">46</span> +<span class = "folionum">N2</span> +the twelfth part for the thicknesse of the brimme, rounde about the same +were carued water monsters, after the best sort that euer any auncient +inuentor or woorkeman for the hardnes of the stone could deuise to +woorke, it might bee the woorke of <i>Dædalus</i>, for the wonderful +excellencie thereof. <i>Pausania</i>, if he had seene this, would haue +taken small pleasure to boast of the standing cup which he made to +<i>Hipparis</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which same was founded vpon a steale or final Pillar of Iasper of diuers +colours, beautifully adulterating one with an other being cut in the +middest and closed vp with the cleare Calcidonie, of the colour of the +troubled Sea water, and brought into marueilous woorke, beeing lifted vp +with guttured hollowe vessels, one aboue an other, with a reserued +seperation, by artificiall and woonderful ioyntes. It stood streight vp, +fastened in the center of a Plynth, made of greene Ophite which was +rounde, and somewhat lifted vp aboue, about compassing Porphyr, some +fiue inches, whiche was curiously wrought with diuers lyneaments.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Rounde about the steale whiche helde vp the vessell, foure Harpies of +Golde did stand, with their clawes and tallented feete vpon the smoothe +Table of the Ophite.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Their hinder partes towardes the steale, one iust opposite against an +other, with their winges displaied and spredde abroad, they rested vnder +the vessell with their feminine countenances, and hauing haire vpon +their heades, from the same, it spredde downe to their showlders, their +heades vnder, and not touching the vessell: with their tayles like +Eeles, and turning rounde<ins class = "mycorr" title = "punctuation +invisible">. </ins>And vpon their nauels, an Antique leafe worke. These +were verie necessarie for the strengthening of the Pype within the +steale and smal Pillar.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Within the middest of the wombe and bellye, or nauel of the vessel, vpon +the Subiect steale, there was proportionately raised vp of the same +vessel of <i>Amathyst</i>, a substance like a Challice, inward, or the +inwarde moulde for a Bell, so high as the vessel was deepe the middle +thereof, leuell with the brimme of the vessell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the which was made an artificious foote set vnder the +three graces naked of fine Gold, of a common stature, one ioyning +<!--png 103--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +to an other.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +From the teates of their breastes the ascending water did spin out lyke +siluer twist. And euerie one of them in their right hand did holde a +copie full of all kinde of fruites, whiche did extend in length vp aboue +their heades, and at the opening, all three of them ioyned rounde into +one, with diuers leaues and fruites hangyng ouer the brimmes or lippes +of the wrythen Copies.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Betwixt the fruite and the leaues, there came vp sixe small Pypes, out +of the whiche the water did spring vp through a small hole.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the cunning Artificer, because that hee would not trouble one Cubit +with the tuch of another. With a signe of shamefastnes, the Images with +their left handes did hide that part which modestie would not haue +seene, but accounteth woorthie to bee couered.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the brimme of the hollow vessell, whose compasse was a foote +moreouer about, then the subiacent of it, with their heades lifted vp +vpon their Vipers feete, with a conuenient and decent intercalation, +there were placed sixe little scaly Dragons, of pure shining Golde, with +such a deuise, that the water comming from the teates of the Ladies, did +fall directly vppon the euacuated and open crowne of the head of the +Dragons, afore spoken of, with their winges spredde abroad, and as if +they had been byting, they did cast vp and vomit the same water whiche +fell beyonde the roundnes of the Ophict, into a receptorie of Porphyr, +and rounde, whiche were both more higher then the flatnesse of the +pauement before spoken of: where there was a little Channell going +rounde about betwyxt the Ophit and the Porphyrite, in breadth one foote +and a halfe, and in depth two foote.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Whiche Porphyrite was three foote from the playne ouermost parte to the +Pauement, with an excellent vndiculation. The reste of the partes of the +Dragonnes, for the moderate deepenesse of the vessell did grow on, +vntill all met together, transforming the extreame partes of their +tailes into an antique foliature making a beautifull illygament with the +arule or foote set vnder the three images without any deforming +hinderance +<!--png 104--> +<span class = "pagenum">47</span> +to the hollownesse of the precious vessell. And what with the greene +assayling of the compassing Orange trees, and the bright reflections of +the shining matter, and the pure water, there was such a gratious +couler, in that singular and most <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘pretions’">pretious</ins> +vessell, as if the Rainbowe and the clowdes had made theyr +<ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘habitaon’">habitation</ins> +there.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then in the corpulent bearing out of the belly of the vessell, betwixt +one, and the other Dragons, in an equall distance, and of a most +excellent melting or casting, there stood out <i>L</i>yons heads of an +exquisite exaction, and driuing, casting foorth by a little pype, the +water that distilled from the six fistulets, placed in the copie aboue. +Which water, did so forciblie spring vpward, that in the turning downe +it fell among the Dragons in the large vessell, where by reason of the +high fall, and fashion of the vessel, it made a pleasant tinckling +noyse.<a class = "tag" name = "endtag17" href = "#endnote17">17</a></p> + +<!--png 105--> +<p class = "illustration"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<img src = "images/page_47v.jpg" width = "371" height = "583" +alt = "fountain as described in text"></p> + +<!--png 106--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">48</span> +All which rare worke, by so sharpe and fine a wit composed, as this +insolent and precious vessell was, the foure perfect harpies, the +woonderfull and curious azule, wherevpon the three Images of pure gould +stood, with what Arte, ordinance, and rule, digested and made perfect: +as I am ignorant in them altogither, so much the lesse able am I to +describe the whole as it did deserue, being a woorke past any humaine +reache and capacitie to frame the like.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And I may bouldly say, that in our age there was neuer seene in stone +and mettle such a peece of woorke embost, <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘chafed’">chased</ins>, and engrauen. For it was a woonder +to see, that stones of such extreame hardnesse, as that which was the +steale to hould vppe the Vessell, should be cut and wrought to that +purpose, as if it had beene as soft as wax. A woorke raither to bee +woondered at, then vndertaken.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘sqnare’">square</ins> +base court, (in the middest whereof stood this notable woorke of the +sumptuous Fountaine,<ins class = "mycorr" title = +"closing ‘)’ invisible">,) </ins> +was paued with fine Marble of diuers coulers and +fashions. Amongst which were appact very beautifully, roundes of +Diasper, equally distant, and disagreeing from the couler of the +pauement, and the corners closed vp with leaues and Lyllies. Betwixt the +square marble pauing stones, there was a space left like a list, which +was filled vp with diuers coulered stones of a lesser cut, some +proportioned into greene leaues, and tawnie flowers. Cyanei, Phænicei, +and Sallendine, so well agreeing in theyr coulers, so glistering and +seuerly set of a diligent Xesturgie. As full of coulers as a Christall +glasse, repercust and beaten against with the beames of the sunne. +Because the circumduct and compassing coulers, meeting together in the +selfe same smoothe and cleane stones, did yeeld a reflection, no part +being faultie, eyther of the square checkers or scutuls and Trigons<ins +class = "mycorr" title = "punctuation invisible">. </ins>But with a +smoothe and streight ordinance well ioyned together.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Whereat I remained woonderfully amased by my selfe, diligently +considering vpon the noblenes of the woorke, such as I had not beene +vsed to see, and verye willinglye I would haue beene content, to haue +made more staye in the contemplating thereof, for so the dignitie of the +worke required, but I could not because it was necessarie for me to +follow after my leaders.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<!--png 107--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Then the aspect of this sumptuous magnificient and statelye pallace, the +approoued situation thereof, the dew proportion, and the maruelous +composition in my first comming to it, did make me woonderfully +contented to view the woorthines thereof, and in continuance I was +prouoked to behould more, for which cause I perswaded my selfe, as I +might very well, that the expert builder, excelled all other whatsoeuer. +What kinde of rafters? what manner of roofe? after what sort the Parlors +chambers, closets and lodgings, were disposed? with what kind of seeling +they were enclosed and incrusted? wherewithall hanged? with what couler +and kinde of painting ouerhead? What order of columination, and what +space betwixt. No other building maye goe beyonde this whatsoeuer, but +may giue place verye well, of what kinde of Marble, and what manner of +engrauing.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There I beheld the laboures of Hercules grauen in stone with halfe the +representation standing out or bearing foorth, in a woonderfull sort, +the skinnes, <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads +‘statnes’">statues</ins>, tytles, and trophes<ins class = "mycorr" title += "comma in original">, </ins>What an entry, what a stately porche, what +that of Titus Cesar with his stone of Phenicea with all the tinkering +and pullishing about it, there is none whose wit is so grosse to commend +it, in respect of this, but will rather scorne to speake of it. As for +the woorthie and excellent manner of glasing the gallerie without the +pallace, the conspitious porche, the manner of building, the arched +seeling aboue head, beautified and adorned with foliature and other +lineaments of pure gould and asuer couler and excellent painting that +whatsoeuer I had seene before I made finall acount of, as not worthie of +remembrance. And beeing now come to the doore within the porche, the +going in was closed vp wth a hanging, drawne ouer before it of gould and +silke, wrought together, <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘and and’">and</ins> +in the same two images. One of them hauing all kinde of +instruments about hir, fitte and readie to goe to worke, and the other +with a maidenly countenance, looking vp with hyr eyes into heauen.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The beautye of which two were such, and so fresh, as I looked about mee, +whether <i>Apelles</i> had painted them with his Pensill.</p> + +<!--png 108--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘45’">49</ins></span> +<span class = "folionum">O</span> +<ins class = "mycorr" title = +"this and following paragraph not indented in original">And</ins> +there my sportfull, faire, and pleasant companions, euerie one putting +their right handes to mine, willing to haue me in, sayde, +<i>Poliphilus</i> this is the vsuall waye, by the which you must come +into the presence of our Gracious and moste excellent Queene.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But you cannot haue leaue to enter in here through this Curtain, before +you bee receiued of a vigilant and innocent Damosel that is the keeper +of this doore, and she is called <i>Cinosia</i>. Who hearing vs comming, +did forthwith present her selfe, and fauourably held vp the cloth, and +wee entered in.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There was a roome hung about and diuided by an other Curtaine of +excellent Arras full of Imagerie, as signes, shapes, plants, and +beastes, singularly well done.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In this place at our comming, an other curious woman came towardes vs, +called <i>Indalomena</i>, and she putting by the Curtaine, wee entered +in. And there was an other suche like roome, from the second for +quantitie, with discourses and reason marueilously wouen, with infinite +knottes, bucklinges, tyings, and old fashioned harping Irons, or Hookes, +as if they had been fastened and knit togither. In which place without +any staying, the third woman came and receiued vs very gratiously, +her name was <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘Muemosina’"><i>Mnemosina</i></ins>, and shee calling vs, +gaue vs free leaue to go in. Where lastly my companions did present mee +before the sacred maiestie of the Queene <i>Eleutherillida</i>.</p> + + + + +<p class = "intro"> +Poliphilus sheweth as well as hee may, how exceeding great the Maiestie +of the Queene was, the manner of her Residence and seruice. His +fauourable entertainment. Howe shee marueiled at him.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capW_1.jpg" align = "left" +width = "141" height = "143" alt = "W"> +<span class = "hidden">W</span>hen I came towardes the first +doore-keeper, I was somewhat abashed, but yet I did salute her in good +sorte as became mee to doo. And shee verie curteously badde mee come +neere. And in like manner the second.</p> + +<!--png 109--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +In whose gard I did see a loftie Gallery as long the content of the +Pallaice, the <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘roote’">roofe</ins> +whereof, was all painted with a greene foliature, +with distinct flowers and folded leaues, and little flying Byrdes, +excellently imphrygiated of museacall paynting, as without in the first +Court, and the stone walls seeled with Chipworkes of diuers colours.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At the last doore, the Matrone <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘Muemosnia’"><i>Mnemosina</i></ins> +perswaded me verie effectually, not +to doubt of any thing, but that I should stedfastly follow the royall +perswasion, and healthfull counsell of the Queene, and perseuere in the +execution thereof, for that the ende without doubt would be to my +content.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus hauing leaue to goe in, beholde such thinges presented +themselues to my eyes, as were lyker to be celestiall then humane.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +A most stately and sumpteous preparation, in a gorgeous and spacious +Court, beyond the Pallaice neere and opposite to the other, and foure +square.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The bewtifull and precious Pauement within a checkered compasse going +about the same, there was a space of sixtie foure Squadrates of three +foote, the dyameter of euerye one: Of the which one was of Iasper, of +the colour of Corall, and the other greene, powdered with drops of blood +not to bee woorne away: and set togither in manner of a Chesse-boord. +Compassed about with a border, the breadth of one pace of a rare +inuention of woorke, with small pieces of stones, of diuers colours, and +so compacte together, as if it had beene a straunge paynted woorke +euenly cut and set by rule, that you could not perceiue the ioyning, but +smoothe and shyning, and so well framed by the Lybell and Squadrate, +that no circulating or sphæricall Instrument woulde mooue to either +sides without forcing.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +About this, lastlye was an other marueylous kynde of Pauing of three +paces broad, in knottes of Iasper, Praxin, Calcedonie, Agat, and other +sortes of stones of price.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And about by the sides of the walles, compassing the sayde Court paued +as you haue heard, there were placed Settles, of the wood of Palme +Trees, of colour betwixt a yealow and tawny, passing well turned and +fashioned, couered ouer with greene Veluet, +<!--png 110--> +<span class = "pagenum">50</span> +<span class = "folionum">O2</span> +and bowlstered with some soft stuffe or feathers easie to sit vpon, the +Veluet brought downe to the frame of the Settles or Benches, and +fastened to the same with tatch Nayles of Golde, with bossed heades +vppon a plaine Siluer Nextrule or Cordicell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The alament of the claustering walles, were couered ouer with Plates of +beaten Golde, with a grauing agreeable to the pretiousnes of the +metall.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And in the coæquated and smoothe plaine of the same walles of stone, by +certaine Pilastrelles, Quadrangules, or <i>L</i>ossenges, of an equall +dimension and distinct correspondencie in the middest of euerie one, +there were perspicuously appact rounde Iewels, bearing out and swelling +beyond the plaine leuell of the wall, after the manner of the tores of +bases, and of thicknes according to the proportion of the Losenge +wherein it stood, compassed about with greene iagged leaues, one bending +ouer an other, the tops turned toward the Iewell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And betwyxt the Foliature and the great Iewell, another border of +pretious stones curiouslie sorted and conspicuouslie set.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And in the rest of the wall circumvallate of these bearing out rownde +Iewels, the seuen Plannets with their nature and properties, with an +Encaustic woorke were sweetly painted, which I beheld with great +delight. The rest of the wall exclusiue from the rowndnes of the Iewels +within the Pilastrels, were filled vp and bewtified with infinite +varietie of workes in siluer, and powdered with diuers inestimable +stones, singularly well cut, and of diuers fashions.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The wall on the left side was in like sort, and opposite in tundels. +Against the seuen Plannettes were there seuen Tryumphes ouer the +subiectes of the same predominent Plannettes, and in such lyke Art of +Painting as the other side.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And on the right part I behelde their seuen harmonies and friendly +aspectes, and the passage of the blood, with the qualitatiue receiuing +and retiring & circulating entrance, with an incredible Historie of +the celestiall operation accedent.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The fourth alament made the Pallaice of suche like distribution +<!--png 111--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +as the other, the doore except, whiche did occupie an emptie voyde +interstice. The other sixe with a regulate correspondence, and harmonye +of the rest, in the Iewelles to the opposite and symentriall congresse +of the Plannettes, with their vertuous inclinations, were expressed in +the shapes of elegant Nimphes, with the titles and signes of their +natures.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The seuenth Mediane quarter, was the forefront directlye placed against +the seuenth Iewell, representing the Planet <i>Soll</i>, whiche was set +vp more higher then the rest, by reason of the Queenes Throne.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Euerie part of matter, number, forme, and lyneament, in distribution +equally correspondent to his Lybell, the right with the left, and here +and there, with an exquisite loue, and congresse agreeing.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Of whiche moste excellent Court, euerie side was eight and twentie +paces. In this sort stood this synarie open Court, all compassed about +with fine golde, a worke rather to bee wondered at, then +spoken off.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Pilastrelles were discrepant fowre paces one from an other, with a +iust partition of seuen (a number gratefull to nature) of fine and +orient Azure, Lazull stone, passing well coloured according to his +kinde, with a bewtifull bestowing of small glymces of gold. In the fore +part of which, betwixt the seuen pilastrels, there were appointed little +slender Pillers wrought about with leaues, copies, heades with haire +like leaues, boyes their hippes and legges proportioned into brawnches, +Birdes and copies, and vesselles full of flowers, with other woonderfull +inuentions and deuises, from the top to the bottome of the Anaglyph, as +if they had grown out of the foundation, making and diuiding in sunder +the spaces, their chapters were wrought of a fashion answerable to the +rest.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Ouer the whiche did extende a streight beame with grauen lineamentes +fitting the same. And ouer that a Zophor, conteining this woorke still +throughout, that is, the bonye scalpes of Oxen, with myroll bowghes full +of berries, tyed abowt theyr hornes by a towell of linnen.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon either sides of them were Dolphines, with their gilles lyke leaues, +and their Finnes and their extreeme partes of a foliature, +<!--png 112--> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘52’">51</ins></span> +<span class = "folionum">O3</span> +and vpon theyr heades and backes certaine naked boyes, getting holde of +theyr lifted vp braunching tayles, with leaues and flowers, and bending +them downe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The head of the Dolphine hauyng a Syme, whereof the one part turned +towardes the Boye, and the other bent against the vessell with an open +gaping, and endyng in the head of a Storke, with her beake against the +open mouth of a Monster, lying with his face vpwarde, and certaine +Whorelles or Beades rysing vp betwixt his mouth and her beake.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Whiche heades in stead of haire, were couered with leaues one ouer an +other, filling the Orifice of the vessell, and from one lyp to an other, +and vnder the bowle thereof towarde the foote, there compassed a fine +towell of linnen, the endes hanging downe from the knottes, in suche an +excellent sorte as was conuenient both for the place and matter. And in +the middle ouer the heades, was the face of a childe vppon a payre of +winges.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And with suche lyke lineamentes was the Zophor adorned and couered, with +a Coronice full of excellent workemanship. Vppon the plaine toppe +whereof, by a perpendicular lyne ouer the Pillars, in the ordeining of +the squadrangalles, there were placed and framed certaine olde fashioned +vesselles, by an appointed distribution, three foote high of Calcedonie, +some of Amethist, some of Agat, some of Iasper, with their bellies +furrowed and Channelled, and cut of a rare and maruellous cunning, and +with excellent eares.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In a perfect order ouer euerie Iewell aboue the Coronice, were aptlye +ioyned traunsomes, squared seuen foote high, and the middle space +betweene them of glistering Golde, with a superadiect extention, closing +ouer the streight extended transomes. And by a turnyng downe the +transomes, did ioyne decently one with the other, with a Topiarie +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Topiaria, the feate of making Images or Arbours in Trees.</span> +<!----> +woorke. Intending that out of the vesselles standing vpon the Coronice +as aforesaide, in the cornes the transome and the vyne should ryse vp +togither, but out of the other vesselles, either a vyne or some Woodbine +of Golde, by courses meeting ouer the transwerst traunsomes, with a +thicke stretching out of theyr spreadyng +<!--png 113--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +braunches, one ioyning with an other, and twisting togither with a fine +and pleasant congresse, couering ouer all the whole court with a riche +and inestimable suffite, with diuers fashioned leaues of greene +emeralde, gratefull to the sight, more perfect then that wherein +<i>Amenon</i> was impressed, and the flowers dispersed and distributed +of Saphires and byrrals. And with an excellent disposition and +artificiall, betwixt the greene leaues and the grosse vaynes, so +precious hunge downe the clusters of grapes made of stones, <ins class = +"mycorr" title = "text reads ‘agreebale’">agreeable</ins> and fitting to +the naturall coulers of Grapes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +All which most rare deuises, of pryse incomparable, incredible, and past +imagination, did shine all ouer most pretiouslie: not so much to be +marueyled at for the costlinesse of the matter, but for the large +greatnesse of the worke.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For nor without great cause, from place to place, with a diligent and +iealous examination I did carefully consider the large extention of the +inmost intricate braunches, and their proportionate strength and +thicknesse, so cunninglie doone, by such an arte, boulde attempt, and +continued intent, they were so aptly led out, whether by sowdering, or +by the Hammer, or by casting, or by all three, mee thought it an +vnpossible worke to make a couering of such a breadth, and so twysted +and twyned together.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the middle prospect, oppossite against our going in vpon a degreed +regall throne, set full of glystering stones in a maruelous order, farre +more excellent then the seat in the temple of <i>Hercules</i> at +<i>Tyre</i>, of the stone <i>Eusebes</i>. The Queene with an imperiall +Maiestie sitting vppon it, goddesse like, and of a woonderfull +magnanimitie in countenance: gorgiously apparrelled in clothe of goulde, +with a sumptuous and curious attyre, vpon hir head of a purple couler, +with an edging of Orient Pearle, shadowing ouer hir large forhead, +aunciently and princelike, euer pressing hir plemmirrulate trammels of +hayre, as blacke as iet descending downe hir snowie temples, and the +rest of the aboundance of hir long hayre, fastned rounde in the hinder +parte of her head, and deuided into two partes or tresses, lapt about +this waye and that waye, behind hir small eares, ouer hir streight +proportioned head, +<!--png 114--> +<span class = "pagenum">52</span> +and finished in the crowne, with a flower of great Orient, and rownd +Pearles, such as be found in the Indian promontorie <i>Perimula</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The rest of hir long spreding hayre was not seene, but couered ouer with +a thinne vayle, edged with gould, hanging downe from the said flower and +knot of pearle, to hir delicate shoulders, and flingering abroade with +the ayre.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the middle of the edging of hir dressing, vpon the highest parte ouer +the middest of hir forhead hoong a rare iewell. And about hir round and +snowie neck, went an inestimable Carkenet with a pendent ouer the +diuision of hir rownde brests, of a table Dyamond, in fashion of an +Egge, sparkling, and of a monstrous largenes, set in gould with wyer +woorke.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At hir eares moste richelye were hanged in the typpes two earinges, two +great shynyng Carbunckles of an inestimable price.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Hir shooes were of greene silke, and hir pantofles of gould imbrodered +in a leafe woorke. Vppon a foote stoole aboue the which, and vnder hir +feete, was layde a cushion of white Veluet, with a purseling of silke +and Orient Pearles of<i>Arabia</i>, within the persick golph, with foure +Buttons wrought with pretious Stones, and tasseld with goulde twist, and +crimosen silke, depending.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon eyther sides along vpon the aforesaid benches couered ouer with +greene veluet, sate hir Ladyes of honour, attendant in a goodly and +commendable order, according to their estates, apparrelled in clothe of +goulde in an incredible brauerie, as in the world may bee seene. And in +the middest of them this renowned and famous Queene in great pompe and +vnspeakeable statelynes, and the hemmes of hir vestures so edged and set +with pearle and stone, as if nature had rayned and powred them down +vpon hir.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At hir high and imperiall aspect, with great reuerence bowing their +knees to the ground vnto hir, hir women did rise vppe from their seates, +occasioned by the noueltie of the spectacle, & greatly marueiling +that I should come into such a place.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But I founde my selfe more amazed, my hearte quayling, and dilating both +of the troubles that I passed, and the present +<!--png 115--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +estate that I was brought into, which did enuiron and fill me with an +extreame amasement, reuerend feare, and honest shamefastnesse.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And they asking the fiue Nimphes that brought me in, whysperinglie what +I was, and the strangenesse of my hap, directing, bending and +intentiuely fixing all their eyes vpon me. Where finding my selfe so +base a worme in such an excellent conspect, I was woonderfully +astonished, and lyke one that had no spyrite.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But the successe and manner of my comming being demaunded of them, the +Nymphes plainly, open and manifest the same at large, whereat the +gratious Queene beeing mooued to compassion, caused me to stand vp, and +vnderstanding what my name was, began to say.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Poliphilus</i>, be of good comfort, and pluck vp a good heart, and +tell me how thou commest hither, and by what meanes, and how thou +diddest escape that mortall and horrible Dragon? and how thou diddest +finde away out of that odious and blinde darkenes, I haue beene tould of +it: But I maruell me not a little, because few or none dare aduenture +that waye. But seeing that grace hath safelye brought thee hither vnto +vs, I will not denye thee (any cause notwithstanding) a gratious and +fauourable intertaynement.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +To whose liberall inuiting, royall woordes and intertaynement, better +then I could haue imagined to desire, with diuote and honourable +thankes, giuen aboundantly from pointe to pointe, I tould how I escaped +and fled from the Dragon, a fearefull monster. And consequently with +what trauell and payne I came to the desired place. And how the fiue +Nimphes did finde me wandering and afrayde. Which when I had at large +declared and ended my speeche, I began with great desire to frame my +selfe to bee a pertaker of their solacious and <ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘magnicifient’">magnificent</ins> pleasures.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After that she said vnto me with a smiling and pleasant countenance. It +is a woorthie matter to consider, that an euill and discontented +beginning, often time falleth out to a happie and good successe in the +end: and before that anye thing bee <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"‘After that ... bee committed’ printed at page-end and again on new page">committed</ins> +<!--png 116--> +<span class = "pagenum">53</span> +<span class = "folionum">P</span> +vnto you to perfourme, as touching your amorous and firme conceit, it is +our pleasure, for the asswagement and mitigation of thy commendable +griefes, that in this company thou especially shouldest associate thy +selfe with <i>Philotesia</i>, seeing that the faire heauens haue shewed +thee of thy entertainment, and brought thee into our triumphant mansion +place. And therefore my <i>Poliphilus</i>, without any more ceremonies +take thy place there and sit downe, for thou shalt see (with a verie +good will) part of our sumptuous and stately manner of seruice, the +plentifull diuersitie and number of my more then princely dainties, the +honourable attendance of my houshold, & excellent order thereof, the +inestimable pretiousnes of my great aboundance, and the large effects of +my bounty.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At which imperious commaund, her eloquent and fauorable speech ended, +humbly, and with a little more audacitie than before, vppon one of the +benches of my right hande I did sit downe (lapping my torne gowne +together before me with certaine brymble leaues still sticking in it) +betwixt the fiue Nymphes that brought mee in, and amongst them next vnto +<i>Offresia</i> and <i>Achoe</i>, placed behinde the Queene, and six +other of the chamber vppon the other hande, and in the middest on high +vppon a throne did the Queene sitte in an imperiall Maiestie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Couer ouer the Throne was of an inamelled couloring contayning in it +a beautifull image without any beard, the head bushing with yellow +haire, part of his brest couered with a thinne cloath ouer the displayed +winges of an Eagle, her head turning vp, and beholding of him. The head +of which image was redymited with an azure Diademe, adorned with seauen +beames, and at the foot of the Eagle two braunches of greene Lawrell, +one one way, the other contrary towards either side. And in euerie +garland I behelde the figment proper to his planet, and behind at my +backe was the iewell, containing the historie of the winged Mercury, and +howe the benignitie of his +<!--png 117--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +good disposition is depraued, when he is in the malignant <ins class = +"mycorr" title = "reading unclear: Italian has ‘cauda’">taile</ins> of +the venemous Scorpion. And looking vpon my selfe, I was ashamed to see +my vile habite among suche sumpteous induments, that me thought my selfe +no otherwaies but euen lyke that vile and mortiferous beast among the +most noble signes of the Zodiac. The bewtifull and honorable damosels +sate in order vpon the Benches, compast about all along by the sides of +the walles vppon the right side, and the best of the Court, with a rare +and strange kinde of womanly dressing vppon their heads, as is in the +world, with the tresses of their haire lapt and bowed vp in Caules of +gold.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Some with their haires of Amber colour, curled and dressed vp with +flowers of the same vppon a wyer, with the endes turning downe and +wauing vppon their snowy foreheades and smooth temples, bewtified with +Rubies and Diamonds prickt in the haire.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Others of the colour of the Obsidium of <i>India</i>, blacke and +shining, adorned with floures of Orient Pearle, & Carkenets of the +same. They stood all waiting with such a venerate attention, that when +the seruice was brought to the table, they all at one instant time +alike, made their reuerent curtesies in bowing of their knees, and in +like manner when they did rise from of their seates, euerie one +apparrelled in cloth of Golde, but they did not sit and eate at the same +table.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘Sreight’">Streight</ins> +before the triumphant Queene was the opening of the third Curtaine, +couering a great and goodly doore, not of Marble, but of rare and hard +Diasper of the East, of an artificiall and ancient worke, wonderfully +bewtifull to behold. Vpon either sides of this doore, their yoong +damosels Musitians, seuen vpon a side in a <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘Nimpish’">nimphish</ins> apparrel, notable for the fashion +and verie rich: which at euery change of seruice, did alter their +Musicke and Instruments, and during the banquetting, others with an +Angelike and Syreneall consent, did tune the same to their handes. Then +in a sodaine was placed frames of Hebony, with three feete, and other +temporary tables, without any noyse or brustling. Euerie one readie to +his appoynted Office, with a carefull, diligent, and affecting indeuour, +wholy to that seruice which was enioyned him.</p> + +<!--png 118--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">54</span> +<span class = "folionum">P2</span> +And first before the Queene, there was placed a frame of three feete of +this fourme, vpon a rounde of fine Dyasper, with curious Lineaments. To +the which were three stypits, the lower partes whereof, did finish in +the forme of the tearing claw of a Lyon, with an exsquisite foliature, +compassing about the steales of the stypets, hauing in the middest of +euerie one, fastened the head of a childe betwixt two wings, from the +which betwixt one and other of the stypets, there hung in maner of a +Garland a bundle of leaues and fruites bounde togither, and biggest +towardes the midst, and vppon the top of the stypets or steales, was put +a proiection to beare vp the rounde table before the Queene.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This frame was vnmoueable, but the round table was to be quickly taken +of and on, according to the substance of the vessels at euery changing +of the table.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And streight way as it were in the twinckling of an eye and turne of a +hand, there was put vppon this three footed frame a rounde table of +Golde, three foote by the Diameter, and of an indifferent thicknesse, +and of this forme and bignes were all the rest.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon this table was laide a Carpet perfumed, of cloth of Hormisine of a +greene colour, euenly distended large and long downe to the pauement: +fringed vpon the sides with twisted threede of the selfe same, and mixed +with Siluer and Golde, depending downe vnder a border of imbroyderie of +Pearle and pretious stone, with a hand-breadth of the pauement on euerie +side hanging downe. And of this sort were all the Carpets bordered and +fringed.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Afterwards followed a faire yoong Damosell and quicke, with a great +Bason of Gold filled with the flowers of Violets, tawny, blew & +white, and sweet smelling, as in the prime spring time, and strewing of +them vpon the tables, except that before the Queene.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Her sacred maiestie, hauing put off her robe so gorgeous as +<i>Lolia</i>, wife to <i>Paulus Aemilius</i> neuer saw in her husbandes +tryumphes, and shee remayned in a gowne of purple Veluet, +<!--png 119--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +hauing wouen in it birdes, little beastes, leaues and flowers in +knottes, the worke somewhat raysed vp with pearle and stone, with a +thynne vayle couering it all ouer of silke syprusse, shewing through it +the couered workes and cloath by reason of the cleare subtiltie and +thinnesse thereof, and imperiall and gratious apparell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After came in two beautifull Damosels bringing in an artificious +fountaine continually running with water, and reassuming the same +agayne, which was of fine golde, and in a vessell of a curious +workmanshippe, which was brought before the Queene, and after the +presenting of it vpon the table of golde they bowed their knees downe to +the pauement, and like reuerence at the same instaunt made all the rest +of the attendant Ladyes, both at the presenting of euery thing, and at +the taking away. Three other faire Damosels followed neare after them, +one carrying an Ewer of golde, the second a bason, and the other a +towell of white silke.</p> + +<p class = "illustration bodytext floatright"> +<img src = "images/pic_54v.jpg" width = "339" height = "380" +alt = "fountain as described in text"></p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Queen whilest shee did wash her handes, one that caried the golden +bason, receyued therin the water, that it might not fall agayne into the +reassuming fountaine: and the other with the Ewrie, powred in as much +sweete water as was borne away, because that the fountaine shoulde not +be emptie, and hyndered in hys course. The third did wipe and drie her +hands.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The broad and large Receptorie of this fountaine was carryed vpon foure +little wheeles, which they drew vppon euerie +<!--png 120--> +<span class = "pagenum">55</span> +<span class = "folionum">P3</span> +table to wash the handes of all that were sette.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The brim of the vessell wherein the rising vp fountaine did stande, was +adorned with bubbles of pearle standing vp, and vnder the same was sette +an other of an other sorte, and both ioyned together with two claspes of +an exquisite dipoliture, fine worke, and pretiously garnished. For among +other iewelles of inestimable price, vppon the verie toppe in a flower, +there was sette a Diamond in fashion of a peare, glistering and +sparkling of a huge and vnseene bignes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And as neare as my smell could tell mee, I did iudge the water to bee of +Roses, mixt with the iuice of Lymon pilles, and a little Amber +artificially composed, which yeelded a sweet and pleasant smell.</p> + +<p class = "illustration floatleft"> +<img src = "images/pic_55r.jpg" width = "296" height = "494" +alt = "vessel as described in text"></p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the middest of this admirable and stupendious Court, there was set +out a maruellous perfuming vessel, not so much for the excellent and +perfecte substaunce thereof, which was pure and fine golde: but for the +conspicuous, rare, and auncient fashion of the base, standing vpon three +Harpyes feete, the which in a foliature made a trianguled illygament to +the base, full of deuises, as the mettall required, ouer euerie Angle or +corner whereof stoode three naked shapes of flying spirites orderly +sette, of two cubites high, with their shoulders turned one towards an +other, and somewhat neare together.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +They stood vpon the base with the right foot towards the +<!--png 121--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +corner, and the lefte stretching towardes the fixed foot of the other +boye. Their cubits bending vp, and holding the handle of the perfuming +panne, verie slender in the steale, and vpward in fashion of a bowle, +somewhat furrowed and broad lipped.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There were six in a round circuit, one towardes an other: And betwixt +theyr shoulders in the Center point of the trianguled base, there rose +vp a steale like an olde fashioned Candlesticke, holding on the toppe +thereof suche a bowle or vessell as aforesaide, and so broade as did +fill vp the voyde place in the middest betwixt the other six.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which bowles were filled with burning coles couered ouer with embers, +and in euery vessell vppon the ashes did boyle a little pot of gold, +which contrary liquors infused with sweet odours.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And as I suspected, euery potte had seuerall water, as it were, one with +Rose-water, another with water of Orange flowers, another of myrtle, +tender greene Lawrell leaues, elder flowers, and diuers such lyke +sociable symples. And these boyling together, they did yeelde a most +pleasant and fragrant smell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the presence of the magnificent Queene there did alwayes wayte and +attend three honourable Nymphes, their apparell beeing of golde and +silke, maruelously wouen and adorned, and sette with pearle and stone. +The lyninges of theyr gownes going about their snowie shoulders, and +comming downe vppon theyr little round brestes to the lower parte of +their wastes, of suche colour as the napkins, leauing to be seene the +pleasaunt valleys betwixt their faire brestes, an extreame delight and +desired nourishment vnto a narrowe looke and greedie eye, with a +thousand small chaynes, pretie iewelles and flowers of golde in a <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "so in original">fæminine</ins> sort, a sweet +bayte to carrie a man headlong into forgetfulnes of hymselfe, beeing +inchaunted with choyse and amorous regards, farre passing the desire of +any other delycate vyands. Their shooes of golde cutte with halfe +Moones, and closed vp at the ioyning of the hornes or corners with +buttons and flowers of gold-smithes woorke in a curious sorte, and the +<!--png 122--> +<span class = "pagenum">56</span> +trammels of their faire and plentifull haire aboue their forheads and +temples instrophiated with large and round oryent pearle.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +They stoode thus on eyther hande and before the Queene with a singular +and reuerent regarde, attending and readilie perfourming that charge +whereunto they were appoynted. And these serued but an one Table: which +beeing chaunged, they withdrewe themselues by, and stoode still vppon +theyr feete arme in arme, other three hauing supplyed their places: And +the three that wayted, shee in the middest was caruer.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The other vppon the right side helde vnder a plate if anie thing should +fall by: and the thirde vppon the lefte hand held a most whyte and +cleane towell of silke to drie her lippes, and in euery action a +reuerence.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The towell was not vsed but once, and then cast by vpon the pauement, +and carryed away by one that stoode neare. And so many morsels as shee +did eate, so many sweete perfumed cleane towelles of silke plyted and +finely wrought were vsed.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the like was doone to euerie guest, for not one at that banquet did +touch anie thinge sauing onelye the cuppe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After that the Queene had washed, and had her first seruice, then all +the rest did wash at the same fountaine, casting out water of it selfe, +and reassuming the same in a wonderfull manner by two small pypes on +eyther sides, and running vp straight in the middest from the bottome of +the vessell, the deuyse whereof when I did vnderstand, I was much +contented therewithall.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After the washing of the Queene first, and successiuely of all the rest, +there was deliuered to euery one of the wayters a rounde ball of golde +wyer-woorke full of small holes, and within stuft with Amber past of a +most perfect composition, set with pretious stones, to the ende their +hands, eyes, and sences should not be idle.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then there at euerie chaunge of course, +two <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: Italian has ‘domicelle edeatrice’"><i>Edeabriees</i></ins> +that had the ordayning of the Queenes meate, did bring +<!--png 123--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +into the middest of the royall Court vppon foure turning wheeles a +stately repositorie or cupbord, in fashion like vnto a shippe, and the +rest like to a triumphant Chariot, of most fine golde, with many fishes +and water monsters, and infinit other exquisite shapes maruelously +wrought, and sette full of riche stones, the sparklings and glisterings +whereof did shine rounde about the sides of the Court, and reincounter +vpon the roundelles of the other before spoken iewelles, on euery side +fitly placed, as if Phœbus had been sette by a Nymph to grace hir eyes +and countenance with his shining brightnes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +To all which continuall glistering of ineffable workemanshippe, there +could no more bee deuised of equall comparison, although it were the +Temple at Babylon with the three golden statues</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Within the which was put all such necessaries perfumed, as were meete +and conuenient for the chaunging of the tables, as clothes, flowers, +cuppes, towelles, and vesselles, to powre out of, to drinke in, and +plates to eate vpon.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Which did draw in the cupbord.</span> +And these two Nymphes plaustraries, did take them downe, and deliuer +them (as neede required) to the wayters.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the first Table beeing chaunged, euerie thing was brought backe +agayne to the plaustraries, at whose going away the Trumpettes sounded +in such a sorte, as <i>Piseus Therrenus</i> neuer came neare vnto, nor +<i>Maletus</i> Trumpetor to the King of Hetruria.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And then they did wind their Cornettes, thus dooing euerie time that the +repositorie was drawne out, vntil that it came in againe, at what time +they ceased.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And when the Table was chaunged, they altered their musicall +instruments, which beeing ceased, the singers began so heauenly, that it +would haue caused the Syrens to sleepe, hauing mixed with their voyces +still winde instruments of wood, such as the <i>Troezein Dardanus</i> +neuer inuented.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And by this appoynted order, there was continually heard +[melo]dious soundes, and pleasaunt harmonies, sweete con[cords] with +delightfull Musicke presented, odoriferous per[fume] smelt, and stately +viandes plentifully fedde of.<a class = "tag" name = "endtag18" href = +"#endnote18">18</a> And +<!--png 124--> +<span class = "pagenum">57</span> +<span class = "folionum">Q</span> +euerie thing whatsoeuer, without any defect of grace or delight +answerable, according to the dignitie of the place.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +To this first princely table, all the vessels and instruments togither +with the table it selfe, were of pure fine Gold. Wherupon there was +appresented a Cordiall confection, and as I could coniecture, it was +made of the scraping of Vnicornes horne, Date stones and Pearle, often +hette, and quenched and pownded small, Manna, Pineapple kernels,<a class += "tag" name = "endtag19" href = "#endnote19">19</a> Rose water, Musk +and Lyquid<ins class = "mycorr" title = "comma in original">, +</ins>Golde, in a precious composition by weight, and made Losenges with +fine Sugar and Amylum.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This was eaten without any drinking vpon it, and it was a Confection to +prohibite all Feuers, and to driue away Melancholy wearines.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This being done in a moment, all things were taken vp and remoued, the +Violets cast vpon the ground, and the table bare. And assoone as this +was done, the table was laide againe couered with cloth of Talasike, and +also the wayters, and as at the first, there was cast vpon them the +sweete flowers of Cedars, Orenges, and <i>L</i>ymons, and vpon that, +they did appresent in vessels of Beryl, and of that precious stone was +the Queenes table (except the skinking pottes which were all of pure +fine Gold) fiue Fritters of paste of a Saffron colour, and crusted ouer +with extreeme hotte Rose water, and fine pownded Sugar, and then againe +cast ouer with musked water, and with fine Sugar like frost vpon Ise. +These Seruices of a most pleasant taste, and of sundry fashions were +laid in thus. The first, in oyle of the flowers of Orenges. The second, +in oyle of Gilliflowers. The third, in oyle of the <ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘flloures’">floures</ins> of Gessamin. The fourth, +in pure Oyle of Beniamin.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the last, in the oyle of Muske and Amber. And when we had wel tasted +and eaten of the same delectable meat, there was deliuered to vs a +goodly cup of the aforenamed Beryl, with his couer, and couered ouer +that also with a thinne Veyle of silke and Gold curiously folded into +the fourme of a Canapie, the ends cast ouer the shoulders of the +bearers, and hanging down their backe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And in this sort they did present all drinking vessels and others, with +meates and sawces couered. Within the drinkyng +<!--png 125--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +cup they had infused a precious Wine, so as mee thought that the Gods of +the <i>Elysian</i> fieldes, had transformed their power into the +sweetnes of the lyquor: surpassing the wine of <i>Thassus</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Without delaie (after our drinking this table being taken away, and the +sweete flowers cast vpon the pauement<ins class = "mycorr" title = +"closing ‘)’ missing in original">), </ins>there was forthwith spred a +cloth of murry silke and carnation: with Roses white, redde, Damaske, +Muske, and yealow cast vppon the same. And presently new wayters brought +in (apparrelled in the same colours) sixe pieces of bread cut for euery +one, tossed and dressed with refined marrow, sprinckled ouer with Rose +water, Saffron, and the iuice of Orenges, tempering the taste and gilded +ouer, and with them sixe pieces of pure manchet were set downe. And next +vnto them a confection, of the iuice of Lymons tempered with fine Sugar, +the seedes of Pines, Rose water, Muske, Saffron, and choyce Synamon, and +thus were all the sawces made with conuenient gradation and deliuery. +The vessels were of Topas and the round table.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This third magnificent table being taken vp as before said, there was +presently an other innouated, with a cloth of silke smooth, and of a +yealow colour, (the wayters sutable) and strewed with Lilly Conually, +and Daffadil, immediately this course was presented, seuen morsels of +the flesh of a Partridge in a sharpe broth, and so many pieces of pure +white Manchet. The sauce Acceres, minced and dissolued in Sugar thrice +sodden, Amylum, Saunders, Muske and Rose water. The vessels and the +rounde table of <i>Chrysolite</i>. Lastly, they offered a precious +drinking cup, and so obserued in the rest.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The fourth table beeing taken away, the fift was reuested with a cloth +of silke, of a crimosen colour, and in like sort the Nimphish apparrel. +The flowers of purple, yealow, white, and tawny. The Seruis, eight +morsels of the flesh of a Pheasant rosted lying in the grauie, and +withall so many pieces of fine white manchet. The sauce was this, water +of Orenge flowers, the iuice of Pomegranets, Sugar, Cloues, and Cynamon. +The vesselles of Smaragde, and the table of the Souereigne Queene.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This beeing taken away verie solemnely, there was spred +<!--png 126--> +<span class = "pagenum">58</span> +<span class = "folionum">Q2</span> +an other cloth of silke of a purple colour, and so the apparrel of the +wayters.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The flowers were of three sortes, of Iessamine, tawny, yealow, and +white. The Seruice was nine morsels of the flesh of a restoratiue +Peacocke, moystened in his grauie. The sauce was most greene and tart, +with Pistacke, Nuttes pownded, Sugar, Cypricum, Amylum, and Muske, Time, +white Marioram, and Pepper. The vesselles of Saphyre, and the Princely +Table.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At the seuenth chaunge, they brought in a sumpteous table of white +Iuory, bordered, trayled, and finely wrought with many small pieces vpon +the precious wood of Aloes, and ioyned & glued togither, and from +one side to the other, wrought with knottes and foliature, flowers, +vesselles, monsters, little Birdes, and the strikes and caruings filled +vp with a black paste and mixture of Amber and Muske. This mee thought +was a most excellent thing and sumpteous breathing out, a most +delightful sweet smel. The cloth white and subtily wrought with drawne +worke with Satten silke, the ground powdered and filled, and the worke +white and plaine, with the representation of shapes, byrdes, beastes, +and flowers, and in like sort the apparel of the wayters. The flowers +Lady steale, Rape, Violet, and all sortes of sweete Gilliflowers. And +thus there varied euerie where such diuersitie of smelles, seuerally +brought in, and so <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘delighfull’">delightfull</ins> +to the sences, as I cannot sufficiently +expresse.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then there was giuen to euerie one a confection in three morsels of the +shell<ins class = "mycorr" title = "comma in original">, </ins>fish, +Dactilus, with Pistacke<ins class = "mycorr" title = "comma in +original">, </ins>Nut kernels pownded and put into Rose water and Sugar, +of the Ilandes, and Muske and leafe Golde, beaten and adulterated +therwith, that euerie piece taken vp, seemed as if it had beene all +Gold.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The vessels were of Iacynth, and the table circular. An apt and +conuenient stone to so excellent disposition and royall board and +straunge banquets, suche as before were neuer heard of.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After the taking away of these wonderfull Confections, +<!--png 127--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +and the flowers cast downe vpon the pauement in a princely magnificence, +there was presently brought in, a great vessell of Gold full of kindled +coales, into the which the table cloathes, napkins and towelles of silke +were throwne, whiche presently burned light, and after that beeing taken +out and cooled, they were whole, vnhurt and cleane, as at the first. And +this yet was the wonderfull straungest of all the rest. And then the +tables and frames were taken downe and carried away.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which most excellent order and sightes, the more that I carefully +indeuoured to consider of them, the more ignorant and amazed I founde my +selfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But in all thinges assuredly I did take great pleasure with my intended +admiration, in seeing of such, so great, plentifull, and tryumphant +sumpteousnes, of so incredible costly a banket, that it is better to +holde my peace then not to speake sufficiently in the report thereof. +For that the bankets of <i>Sicilia</i> be in respect but beggerly, and +so were the stately Ornaments of <i>Attalus</i>. The Corinthian vessels, +the dainties of <i>Ciprus</i>, and <i>Saliarie</i> suppers.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Yet notwithstanding so supreame and excessiue alacritie, and cordiall +delectation, and that onely and extreeme pleasure (occasioned by such +and so vnexpected delightes) by one of those three which in the last +chaunge attended, was quayled, ouerthrowne, interrupted, lamed, +intercepted and made vaine. For shee did represent in her behauiour, the +sweet iesture and resemblance of <i>Polia</i>, stirring vp by them in me +stealing regardes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This was no small hinderance vnto mee, in the takyng of those pleasant +dainties and princely refection. Yet notwithstanding my eyes would now +and then with much adoo, bee withdrawne to beholde the bewtie of the +Iewels and precious stones, sparkeling and glistering in euerie place, +in such diuersities of straunge and vnseene gloriousnes and conspicuous +decoraments, as if they had all ought a duetie to her, which made mee +with an immoderate desire, to behold the correspondency of her excellent +bewtie.</p> + +<!--png 128--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">59</span> +<span class = "folionum">Q3</span> +Lastly, in suche order and sorte, as aforesaide, the tables beeing taken +away, I hung downe my heade, because that I might not followe after the +last iunckates which I had lost by minding of her that ministred.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then first before the sacred Maiestie and royall person of the Queene, +and afterwards to vs, fiue fayre Nymphes apparelled in blewe silke and +golde curiously wouen togeather in workes, did all together appresent +themselues.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The middlemost of them did beare a braunch of coorrall, lyke a tree, +such as is not founde amongst the Ilandes Orchades, of one cubite high, +which stoode as vppon a little mountayne, which was the couer of an old +fashioned vessell of pure gold, in forme of a Challyce, as high agayne +as the couer and the tree of coorrall, full of curious workmanshippe and +leafe worke, neuer made in our age, nor the like seene.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Betwixt the gracylament of the foote and the cuppe, it was knitte +together with a handle of inestimable workemanship, and in lyke manner +the foote and the bowle were of an excellent anaglyphie of foliature, +monsters and byformed Scyllules, so exquisitely expressed, as could be +imbossed, chased, or ingrauen by proportionate circulation.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the mordycant couer of the same was thicke set with incomparable +iewelles: and in lyke sorte all the base and handle whereas conueniencie +requyred, and glystering about.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the braunches of the coorrall, there were artificially sette +certayne open flowers with fiue leaues, some of Saphyre, some of Iacynth +and Berill, and in the middest of them a little round seede of golde, +fastening the leaues to the stalke of corrall.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which yoong woman reuerently bowing to the earth with her right knee, +reseruing the other still vp, whereuppon shee helde this couer of +coorrall, which also besides the flowers, had vppon the pointes and +toppes of other twigges or sprouts curiously infixed monstrous great +pearle. An other of them had a cuppe full of pretious lyquor, better +then that which the prowde <i>Cleopatra</i> gaue vnto the Romane +Captaine: The reste did execute their offices as aforesaid, and plucking +off one after +<!--png 129--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +another, with a little instrument with two teeth of golde they offering +the same fruits vnto vs, to me vnknowne, for that I had neuer seene the +lyke, we did tast them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But the vnexpected pleasure of them, and sweetnes of their tast, was no +otherwise to me than like a gratious substance wanting his desired +forme.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And there were restored agayne the balles of golde before mentioned.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon this appeared an other maruellous woorke, that was a perpetuall +running fountaine artificially deuysed of the aforesaid matter, but of +an other notable fashion and workemanshippe, founded vppon an immoueable +axeltree, vppon the which two wheeles turned about.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Aboue the which stood an vnequal quadrature three foot long, two foot +broad, and six foote high.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In euery angular part did sit a Harpie with both her winges extended and +stretched vp to the breadth of a higher vessell, standing vp vppon the +middest of the measured quadrangule, coronized at the extreme and vpper +parts, and beautified with chanelling and foliature, circumuesting the +lower part.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And vppon euerie side the same diuided into three, the middle parte +betwixt the fall of the waters intercepted, did contayne in halfe bodyes +carued, a tryumph of Satyres and Nymphes, with Trophees, and exquysite +actions, excepte the fore-part and hinder parte moderately sinuated and +bent in. The which in steade of squadred lyneament, did contayne a +roundnesse waued betweene, in the which was maruellously ingrauen a +little sacrifice with an olde Aultar on eyther sides, with manie figures +and actions, the rest that was voyde, the tayles of the foresayde +Harpyes ioyning togeather, and turning heere and there into leaues, did +excellently couer the same.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Out of the medyan center of the equature and quadrangule afore specified +and described out of an antyke folyature, did ryse vp an olde fashioned +vessell, and verie beautifull, the cyrcuite whereof did not exceede the +content of the quadrangulate playne, and this with all the rest of the +woorke, and euerie proportionate disquisition, tryall, and examination, +<!--png 130--> +<span class = "pagenum">60</span> +both in the highest breadth and thicknesse, with moste conuenient +vesseling lineamentes, diligently delymated and fyled, and then finished +with an absolute and depolyte deformation.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The which out of the suppressed orifice thereof did ascend vp an other +hollowe vessell, the compasse whereof did exceede the aforesaide subiect +vessell furrowed and channelled round about, of a great breadth and +large brymmes so wel fashioned, as is possible for any goldsmith to +beate out with his hammer.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the center poynt whereof did rise and mount an other vessell of +incredible workemanship.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the bottome of which thirde there were small ridges swelling +outwardes, the toppes of them compassed about with a row of diuerse +inestimable stones, bearing out and differing in colours, as best might +content the eye of a curious Lapidarie and skilfull vnderstanding.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the same on eyther sides was made a heade of a monster, from the +which on both handes did proceede the garnishing thereof in an exquysite +and most rare worke of leaues, inuesting the same about with the +congresse of the opposyte heade, and finely gracing that parte of the +vessell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And in the bearing out of the lippe of the vessell ouer the +perpendicular poynt of the heade there was fastened a rynge, from the +which vppon eyther sides there hung downe a garland of braunches, +leaues, flowers, and fruites growing bigger towardes the middest, with a +perpolyte bynding to eyther ringes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Ouer the middle bending of the garland, and vnder the proiecture of the +lyppe of the vessell, there was fixed and placed the head of an olde +man, with his beard and haire of his head transformed into nettle +leaues, and out of whose mouth gushed out the water of the fountayne by +art continually into the hollownes of the broad vessell vnder this.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the mouth of this last described vessell did mount vppe a pretyous +hyll maruellously congest, and framed +<!--png 131--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +of innumerable rounde pretious rocke stones closing one with another +vnequally, as if nature had ioyned them growing, making a rounde +composed hill, beautifully glistering of dyuerse sortes and colours in a +proportionate bignes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And aloft vppon the toppe of this little hill, there grewe a fine +pomgranate tree, the body, boughes and fruite made all of golde, the +leaues of greene Smaragde. The fruit of theyr naturall bignesse heere +and there aptly placed, their sides cut open, and in place of kernelles +they were full of most perfecte Rubyes, as bigge as the kernels.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After that, the ingenious Artificer wanting no inuention, hee seperated +the graynes in steade of the fylme with siluer foyle.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And moreouer, in other apples, opened, but not rype, hee redoubled the +thicknesse of the foyle, making the kernelles of an oryentall colour, so +also hee made the flowers of perfect corrall, in the cuppes full of bees +of golde.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Besides this, out of the toppe of the hollowe steale, lyke a pype, there +came out a turning steale, the lowest part whereof rested in a heade, +framed from the middle trunke or pype iust ouer the axeltree.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which steale or stypet beeing strongly fastened, it bare vp a vessell of +Topas of an auncient forme, the bowle whereof in the bottome was broad, +and swelling out with rigges in the opening, rarely bewtified with a +coronice, and put vnder with another.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In which closing and binding together in foure equall diuisions, there +were foure winged heades of a little childe, with foure pipes in their +mouthes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The rest mounted vp so much as the lower bignesse of the vessell was, +beeing closed vp at the orifice with an inuerse foliature. Vppon the +which there was placed an other vessell as it were a circular couer of a +most curious leafe worke, with a smal coronice, and an artificiall +orifice.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +From the bottome of which there beganne a flourished tayle of a Dolphin +fastened and sowldered to the gracylament of the vessell, descending +downe with his heade finned with leaues, to the circulating brymme of +the vessell where the +<!--png 132--> +<span class = "pagenum">61</span> +<span class = "folionum">R</span> +boyes heades were fixed. And with a moderate swelling out about the +head, and streightning in towardes the tayle, they fitted for the eares +in a beautiful manner. And all that inclining part with an exquisite +polishing did make an expresse shewe of most curious lineaments.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘ypper’">vpper</ins> +vessell was so perfectly wrought, that when the wheele was mooued, the +steale with the vessell vppon the toppe thereof, turned about and powred +out water through the tree, and when the wheele stoode still, then that +lefte turning.</p> + +<p class = "main center"> +The wheeles were halfe couered with two winges, the<br> +typpes turning one one way, and the other an<br> +other way, adorned with a chasing<br> +of Mermaydes or Scillaes.</p> + +<!--png 133--> +<p class = "illustration"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<img src = "images/page_61v.jpg" width = "368" height = "510" +alt = "fountain as described in text"></p> + +<!--png 134--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">62</span> +<span class = "folionum">R2</span> +This excellent peece of woorke<a class = "tag" name = "endtag20" href = +"#endnote20">20</a> thus running before euerie one, and weeting our +handes and feete of an incredible sweetnesse, such as I neuer had felt +before, we dryed our hands, and it was carryed away.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And beeing thus sprinckled with this rare and maiesticall water, the +wayters with great reuerence presented vnto the Queene first a great +cuppe of golde, and her highnesse affably saluting vs, drunke Nectar, +and afterwardes euerie one of vs after other, with reuerent, mutual, and +solemne honours done, did drinke a most pleasaunt farewell and shutting +vp of all the pretious dainties that we had tasted and fed vpon.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Lastly, the redolent flowers beeing diligently taken away, and all +thinges that had beene vsed borne from thence, the pauement remayned +pure and shining as a most cleare steele glasse, and as it were +emulating the pretious iewelles rownde about.</p> + +<p class = "main center"> +And euerie one beeing sette in his appoynted place, the<br> +high and mightie Princesse did commaund a company to come<br> +in, and stande vppon the diasper checkers, neuer the<br> +like before seene or imagined of anie<br> +mortall creature.</p> + + +<!--png 135--> +<p class = "intro"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Poliphilus followeth to shew besides this great banket of a most <ins +class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘excel/cellent’ at line break">excellent</ins> +daunce or game, and how the Queene did commit him +to two of her Nymphes, the which did leade and conduct him to the sight +of many wonderfull things, and as they talked, shewed vnto him the +secrecies of such things as hee stood in doubt of. Finally, how they +came to the three gates, in the middlemost whereof, hee remained amongst +the amorous Nymphes.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capH.jpg" align = "left" +width = "180" height = "178" alt = "H"> +<span class = "hidden">H</span>auing spoken something of the exceeding +& incomparable glorie, triumph, vnknowne treasure, plentiful +delights, solemne banket, and the most honourable and sumptuous drinking +of this most happie and rich Queene, if I haue not distinctly and +perfectly expressed her chiefest dignitie, let not the curious company +maruel thereat, for whatsoeuer rype, sharpe, and readie wit, with a +franke, eloquent and plentiful toong adorned, is not able to performe +the least part of his duetie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And much lesse I, who continually suffer in euerie secret place of my +burning heart, an vncessant strife notwithstanding the absence of +<i>Polia</i> my mistres, the owner of all my skil, and imprisoner of my +perfections.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Besides that, in truth the many maruels in excellency, and varietie +vnhard of, so vncoth, rare and straunge vnlikes inestimable, and not +humane, haue so oppressed, laden & born down my sences, with the +greedie and excessiue contemplation and beholding of their variable +diuersities, as that from point to point I am no whit able to describe +them, and much lesse worthie to publish them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +All and the most that I can do, is to thinke of the rich apparrel, +exquisite prouision, curious dressings, perfect ambitious and wounding +bewties without imperfections, their deepe iudgements, <i>Aemilian</i> +eloquence, & bountie more then princely, the notable disposition and +order of Architecture, the durable +<!--png 136--> +<span class = "pagenum">63</span> +<span class = "folionum">R3</span> +Symmetrie and proportion of the building, perfect and absolute, the +noblenes of the Art of Masonrie and Lapycidarie, the directions and +placing of Columnes, the perfection of statues and representations, the +adornment of the walles, the diuersitie of the stones, the stately +entrance & princely porch, large Gallery, artificious pauements, no +man will thinke with what cost and charge bewtified and hanged with +precious Arras and Verdure. The spacious and loftie inner Court, goodly +bedchambers, inner withdrawing chambers, parlours, bathes, librarie and +pinacloth, where coat Armors escuchions, painted tables, and +counterfeates of strangers were kept, & with a maiestical comelines +and order placed and solemnely distributed.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In which conceiuing capacitie, maruellous performance, incredible charge +and high commendation of the most excellent Artificer, woorthily allowed +in euerie partition and elegant conuention of exquisite Lineaments. I +also beheld a marueilous twisted conlignation or couering of gold-smiths +work, ouer a foure square plaine Court, growing vp alike, without +comparison like a heauen, with a disposite distance of many sorted +proportions, with sundry lybellated Dimensions, shadowing ouer the +Court, with an Arched Eminence, which was vnder, adorned with coronised +Lyneaments and grauings, thereunto conuenient, as Fasheols, Gululles,and +Oualling, and the leaues of <i>Achanthus</i>, licking vp as it were in +the corners of the quadranguled Court. With Roses and the growing order +of their leaues, the top leafe least, their iaggings about the leaues, +and space betweene leafe and leafe. All thinges couered with pure fine +gold and Azure colour, with diuers other proportions and counterfets of +substance, equal with their workemanship. The roofing of <i>Salances</i> +King of <i>Colchis</i>, may not compare with this.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then the delightful fruitfulnes of the set hedges, Orchards, watered +Gardens, springing Fountaines, current streames in Marble Channelles, +conteined, framed, and held in, with an incredible Art, greene Hearbes, +still freshe and flowering, a sweete ayre, warme and spring windes, with +a confused charme of singing and chirping birdes, a pure, faire and +bright aire, and stil continuing temperate and healthfull, country free +<!--png 137--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +from danger and cleane, No craggy nor rockie places, nipt and blasted +with sharpe windes, nor burnt with an vntemperate hotte Sunne, but vnder +a sweet and pleasant temperature, in a moderate meane reioycing, betwixt +two extreemes, the fields fruitful and without tillage and manuring, +yeelding all commodities, warme hilles, greene woods and sweet coole +shadowes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Also the inestimable furniture, the attendant housholde and great +number, their excellent seruice, the diuersitie of youthes, and all in +the prime of their yeares. The <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘delighfull’">delightfull</ins> +presence of the Nymphes, both attending +abroad in the presence and chambers, her baser sort, their honourable +and gracious behauiours, their diuersitie of apparrel, attire and +dressings set with Pearle and stone, in an allowed, pleasant & +louely sort, as any can imagine or expresse. With these infinite riches, +supreame delightes, and immeasurable treasure, neither <i>Darius</i>, +<ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in original"><i>Cræsus</i></ins>, or +any other humane state, whatsoeuer might any way compare.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus to conclude, being ouercome with the glorie of them, I know not +what more to say, but that I stood amazed, and as it were senceles, and +yet in great delight and without wearines, beholding those present +obiects, and casting with my selfe what fate and destinate should +conduct and leade mee into such a place.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But afterwardes finding my selfe in such an accumulation of glorie, +pleasant seate, happie Country, great contentment and tryumphant +company, such as <i>Clodius</i> the Player in Tragedies neuer had seene. +I was but moderately conuerted, notwithstanding the promise of the +Queene, to fauour my amorous desire, accounting all, but as eye +pleasures that hitherto I had seene and had been presented vnto me, stil +desiring a greater happines.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For which cause, and for the greater setting out of the excesse and +abounding excellency, beyond all the rest of her royall magnificence, +euery one sitting in their place after the miraculous, wonderful, and +sumpteous banket, without any delaie, she commanded a game to be playd +by parsonages, not onelie woorthie the beholding, but of eternall +remembrance, which was a game at Chesse, in this sort as followeth.</p> + +<!--png 138--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">64</span> +By the entraunce of the curtaine there came in thirty two Nymphes, +whereof sixteene were apparrelled in cloth of gold (eyght vniformally +without difference of degrees) afterwards one of those sixteene was +apparrelled in princely robes lyke a King, and the other lyke a Queene, +with two tower-keepers or Rookes, as wee tearme them, two +counsell-keepers or Secretaries, <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"phrase not in Italian text">wee tearme them Bishoppes,</ins> +and two Knights. In like sort were eight other in cloth of siluer, vnder +the like gouernement and magistracie as aforesaid.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Euerie one of these according to their duties, tooke theyr places vppon +the checkers of the pauement, that is, sixteene in golde of one side in +two rowes, and sixteene in siluer of the contrarie side.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Musicke beganne vppon a sodayne with a rare inuention to sound a +charge with a pleasaunt concord, participating togeather a sweete and +thundering melodie, hauing in it a deuine furie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At the measured sounde and time of the Musicke vppon their checkers, as +it pleased the King to commaund, the pawns turning themselues with a +decent reuolution, honouring the King and the Queene, leapt vppon an +other checker before them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The King of the white men, his musicke sounding, commaunded her forward +that stoode before the Queene, and the same with lyke reuerent behauiour +marched forward her continent, and stoode still. And according to the +mensuration of the musicall time in this order, so they chaunged their +places, or continued vppon the checkers dauncing, vntill that they were +eyther taken or commaunded forward by the King.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +If the musicke kepte still one time, those eyght vnyforme pawnes did +spende the time in marching forwardes into an other checker, neuer +comming backe vntill that worthily without touch or appalement of +courage, they had leapt vppon the line of that square where was the +residence of the Queene, proceeding straight on, vnlesse she tooke a +prisoner by a Diagonick line.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Bishop went in a Diagonike line, still holding that coloured checker +wherein he stood first.</p> + +<!--png 139--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +The Knight ouer two checkers before him taketh the next of eyther +handes, and of a contrary colour to that hee stood in immediately +before.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Castle-keepers or Rookes might passe ouer manie checkers streight on +as they pleased at commaundement, so that they might goe one, two, +three, foure, or fiue checkers, keeping a measure, and not staying in +their march.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The King might goe vpon anie checker if none were in it, or backeward, +and cause any other to remooue for him, and make him roome.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Queene might goe any way, but it is best when shee is neare her +husband on euery side.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And whensoeuer the officers of eyther of the Kings shall finde one +without guarde of helpe, they take her prisoner, and both kissing one +another, she that is ouercome and taken, goeth foorth and +standeth by.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Thus they continued playing and dauncing according to the time of the +musicke, with greate pleasure, solace, and applause, vntill the King of +the siluer Nymphes was victour and conquerour.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This solemne sport, what with resistance flying backe, and seconding of +one an other, with such a measured circulation, reuerence, pause, and +modest continencie, endured the space of an hower, whereat I tooke such +pleasure and delyght, that I imagyne (and not amysse) that I was rapt +vpon the sodaine from the liking of the sportes of Olympus to a newe +felicitie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This first game beeing ended, and conquest obtayned, all retourned into +theyr accustomed places, and in like manner as at the first, so the +second time euerie one in theyr appoynted checkers, the Musicke +chaunging theyr measure, so the moouings and gestures of the players +were altered.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And obseruing the time of the musicke in a conuenient order, and +approoued gesture and arte, that it was no neede to commaund or say any +thing.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But the cunning and experte Nymphes, with theyr plentifull tresses +effused ouer theyr delicate shoulders hung wauing, and in theyr motion +forwardes would streame out at length, +<!--png 140--> +<span class = "pagenum">65</span> +<span class = "folionum">S</span> +somewhat shewing their backes, about their heades wearing Garlandes and +Crownes of Violets. And when any one was taken, they lifted vp their +armes and clapt handes. Thus playing and coursing vp and downe, the +first continued still conquerour.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the last game and daunsing, they beeing all returned to their +distributed places, the Musicke againe sounded a measure phrygiall in as +perfect and prouoking furie as euer <i>Marcias</i> of <i>Phrygia</i> +inuented.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The King in robes of Golde, caused the yoong Damosell that stood before +the Queene, to marche forwarde to the third Checker, direct in the first +remooue, whereupon immediately there was seene a battaile and Torney, +with so swift and sodaine forces, bending themselues to the grounde as +it were lying close vpon their Garde, and presently vpon it capering vp +with a turne twise aboue ground, one iust opposite against an other, and +vpon their downe come withall a turne vpon the toe thrise about.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +All this Action they did at one time, with such a grace and agilitie, as +nothing could be better, with their lowe inclinatitions, high Capers and +Turnings, without affectation of strayning, as it should seeme with +facilitie and careles ease at pleasure and sweete iestures, as in such a +thing may bee imagined, and not else where to bee seene. Neuer any one +troubling an other, but who so was taken prisoner, did presently kisse +their Conquerour, and voyded the place. And the lesser number that there +was, the more pleasure it was to perceiue the pollicies of either sides +to ouercome other.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And such an order and motion was vsed of euerie one, in a commendable +sort without fault, as the measure and time of the Musike appointed, +stirryng euen them that looked on to haue a motion in their sinowes and +mindes to doo the lyke, there was such a concord and agreement betwixt +nature and the Musike especially, seeing the performance of the same in +the actions of others.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon this occasion I was moued to call to remembrance the force of +<i>Timotheus</i>, the most cunning musitian, who with his voice and +measure vppon his Instrument would prouoke +<!--png 141--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +the great Macedonian <i>Alexander</i>, violently to take Armes, +and presently altering his voyce and tune, to forget the same, and +sit downe contentedly. In this third game, <ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘thy’">they</ins> apparrelled in gold did +triumph in the victoritie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Thus honourably with exceeding pleasure and great solace, this sumpteous +feast beeing ended, euerie one framed themselues to sit downe. And I +rysing vp, made reuerence before the Royall seate of her sacred +maiestie, and kneelyng downe vpon my knee, she thus said +vnto me.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Poliphilus</i>, forget now, and wype out of thy remembrance all +forepassed griefes, occursiue troubles, pensiue conceites, and ouergone +daungers, because that I am assured of thy forthwith full contentment of +desire.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And seeing that thy determination is to perseuere resolutely in the +amorous flames and loue of <i>Polia</i>, I thinke it conuenient, that +for the recouerie thereof, thou repaire to the three Portes, which are +the resident places of the high and mightie Queene <i>Telosia</i>, in +which place vppon <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘enerie’">euerie</ins> +of those Portes and Gates, thou shalt see her +tytle and name inscrypt. Read it diligently, but for thy better +direction and safegarde, thou shalt haue to accompany thee, two of my +handmaydes, which know verie well the way thither, and therefore go on +vndoubtedly with a happie successe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thereupon with a princely bountie, she drew of from her finger a +Ring of gold, hauing set in it an Anchit, and deliuered it vnto me to +remember her bountie by.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At this aduise and precious gift, I became amphasiatike, not knowing +what to saie or doo, in requitall or giuing of thankes. Which her +Highnes perceiuing, motherly and with a naturall promptnes in a +maiestical grauitie, turned her countenance to two noble and goodly +Nymphes, attending neere vnto her Royall and imperiall Throne, saying +thus to one of them vpon her right side.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Logistica</i>, you shall bee one that shall accompanye our guest +<i>Poliphilus</i>, and with a sacred and honourable grace, shee turned +to the left hande saying, <i>Thelemia</i>, you shall also go with him. +And both of you shewe and instruct him at what Gate hee must remayne, +and then <i>Poliphilus</i>, they +<!--png 142--> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘65’">66</ins></span> +<span class = "folionum">S2</span> +shall bring you to an other mightie and maiesticall Queene, who if shee +shall bee bountifull vnto thee in entertainment thou art happie, if +contrarie, then discontented.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Notwithstandyng, none doth knowe her intent by her countenance, because +that sometime shee sheweth her selfe full of fauour, loue, and pleasant +dispositions. An other time shee is malignant, frowarde, disdainefull, +with vnstable incursyue passions. And shee it is that determineth such +euents as thou seekest after. And for her obscure condition, shee is +rightly called <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in +original"><i>Thelosia</i></ins>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Her residence is not in suche a stately Pallaice, as thou seest mee to +dwell in.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Therefore I would haue thee to <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads +‘vnderhande’">vnderstande</ins>, that the chiefe woorkeman in the +creation of nature, did make no thyng comparable to mee, neyther can the +earth shew thee greater treasure then to come to my presence and taste +of my bountie, obtaine my fauour and participate of my qualitie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And therefore esteeme of it according to the value, for that thou +findest in me, is a heauenly Tallent aboue all earthly Iewels, for I +haue not had my residence in man since his fall.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +They may imagine of mee, but they knowe mee not, neyther doo I beare any +rule with them to the good of my selfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nowe the Queene <i>Telosia</i>, shee dwelleth in a place of cloudie +darkenes, her house is kept close and shut, for that shee will not shew +her selfe vnto man, nor anothomise, discouer, and laye open her selfe +vnto any as shee is, and for this cause the euent of her variable +determination is kept secret.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But in a maruellous sort considerately, shee transformeth her selfe <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "Italian has ‘uersipelle’">against the +haire</ins>, into diuers fashions, not manifesting her selfe, although +desired.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And when the auncient Gates shall be opened vnto thee, in euerie one +shall bee written what shall befall thee, but thou shalt not perceiue +the same, vnless that in some part thy +<!--png 143--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +vnderstandyng and wisedome enigmatically and with a right and sincere +iudgement looke vnto it, and quickly consider of it, for because that +shee ambyguously chaungeth her selfe in habite and countenance, and +through this doubtfull anymaduersion, a man remaineth deceiued of his +expectation without remedie.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And therefore <i>Polphilus</i>, that which these my consigned trustie +and appoynted handmaydes by suggestion shall perswade thee vnto, and at +what Gate thou oughtest to enter in and remayne, euen which of those two +it shall best please thee to giue eare vnto, doo: for they haue some +vnderstanding of her.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And hauyng thus spoken, shee made a signe or becke with her head to the +two Nymphes <i>Logistica</i> and <i>Thelemia</i>, who presently without +delaie, were obedient to her commaund. And I beeing readie to speake, +neyther knew what to say, or yet durst to so high a maiestie, and for so +great bounties giue a word.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The two appoynted companyons of my iourney, verie fauourablye, and with +a familiar readines and virginlike iestures, tooke holde of mee, one by +the right hande, and the other by the left, and reuerently obteyning +licence, first of the Queene, and takyng theyr leaue of the rest, went +out the same way that I came in.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And I beeyng desirous and not satisfied, turned mee about towardes the +conspicuous Poarch, to beholde diligently the artificious Pallaice, +wonderfull and perfinite of the Art of building.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The subtiltie of which, no humane excogitation is able to imitate.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And therefore I thought that nature had made that for a maruell of all +her woorkes for commoditie, vse, grace, bewtie, ayre, and continuall +durablenes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For which cause, I was excessiuely desirous to staie and looke vppon it, +but my leaders and guides would not suffer mee, and yet by the theft of +my eye in the Zopher, ouer the gate I noted this inscription, <span +class = "greek" title = "Greek: HO TÊS PHUSEÔS OLBOS">Ο ΤΗΣ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ +ΟΛΒΟΣ</span>.</p> + +<!--png 144--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">67</span> +<span class = "folionum">S3</span> +And as muche as with my quicke sences I could carrie, I tooke in my +going foorth, with as greate pleasure and delight as is possible to +expresse. O happie were hee that myght bee but a drudge or kitchin slaue +in suche a Paradice.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nowe beeing come into the base Court, compassed and sette about with +Orenge trees, <i>Thelemia</i> in great curtesie saide thus vnto mee, +besides and aboue all the maruellous and woonderfull thinges which thou +hast yet seene and behelde, there bee fower yet remayning behynde whiche +thou shalt see.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And vppon the lefte side of the incomparable pallace, they brought mee +into a fayre Orchyard of excogitable expence, tyme, and subtletie of +<ins class = "mycorr" title = "hyphen in +original">woorke-manshippe</ins>, the contynent and cyrcuite whereof was +as muche as the plot of the Pallace, wherein was the resydence and +abiding of the Queene.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +Ars toparia is the way of cutting of trees in gardens or other places to +proportions or shapes.</span> +Round about fast by the walles of the Orchyard there were set conuenyent +garden pots in the which in stead of growing plantes, euerie one was of +pure glasse, exceeding a mans imagination or beleefe, intorpiaried boxe +the rootes and stalkes of golde, whereout the other proceeded.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Betwixt one and other of the which was placed a Cyprusse tree, not aboue +two paces high, and the boxe one pace full of manyfolde maruellous +symples, with a moste excellent imitation of nature, and pleasaunt +diuersitie in the fashions of flowers in distinct colours verie +delyghtfull.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The playne labiall compassing about the quadrant Orchyard comming out +from the walles as a seate for these aforesayde garden pottes and trees +to stande vppon, was subcoronized with golde by excellent lyneamentes +wrought and adorned. The vpper face whereof, and whereuppon those pottes +and trees did stande, was couered with a playster of glasse gilte, and a +curious historographie to be seene in the same, and compassed about and +holden in with wyering and netting of golde.</p> + +<!--png 145--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +The wall that compassed about the Orchyard with a conuenient distance, +was bellyed out with columnes of the same matter, and inuested with +flowring bindings naturally proportioned, and heere and there were +quadrangulate columnes of golde chamfered, arching from one to an other, +with a requisite beame Zophor and coronice, with a meete and conuenient +proiecture ouer the chapter of glasse vppon the round.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The substance of which subiect proiecture of the bryttle matter, was of +counterfayte diasper diuersly coloured and shining. Which bryttle +substance had some void space betwixt that and the other.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The mouth of the arches were stopped with rombyes of cleare glasse in +forme of a tryangle, and the pypes beautified all ouer with an +Encaustick painting, verie gratious to the sight of the beholder.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The ground was here and there couered with great round balles of +glasselyke gunne stones, and other fine proportions much pleasing, with +a mutuall consent vnmooueable lyke pearles shining without any +adulteration by folyature. From the flowers did breath a sweet +fragrancie by some cleare washing with oyle for that purpose.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There most cunningly did <i>Logistica</i> lyke an Orator make a +discourse in commendation physically of that excellent confection of the +noblenes of the substaunce, secrecie of the art, and straungenes of the +inuention. The like is not to bee found.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And after shee sayde, <i>Poliphilus</i> lette vs goe and ascende vp this +mount nexte the Garden, and <i>Thelemia</i> remayning at the stayre +foote, wee ascended vp to the playne toppe. Where shee shewed vnto mee, +with a heauenly eloquence, a Garden of a large compasse, made in the +forme of an intricate Laborynth allyes and wayes, not to bee troden, but +sayled about, for insteade of allyes to treade vppon, there were ryuers +of water.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The which mysticall place was of a verie lustie mould and fruitfull, +replenished with all sorts of fruits, beautified with faire springs, and +greene hearbes and flowers, full of all solace and delight. Whereupon +she spake thus.</p> + +<!--png 146--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘69’">68</ins></span> +I doe imagine (<i>Poliphilus</i>) that you doe not vnderstande the +conditionate state of this maruellous seate, and therefore giue +attendance to my wordes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Whosoeuer entereth in cannot come backe, but as you see yonder +mountaines heere and there distributed, seuen circuits and the about +goings distant one from another.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the extreeme molestation and sorrowe of the enterers in, is this: In +the myddle mountayne within the center thereof, and open mouth of the +same, there lurketh inuisibly a deadly deuouring olde Dragon, hee is +vtter destruction to some, and others are not hurte to death by him. Hee +cannot bee seene nor shunned, neyther doth hee leaue any vnassaulted, +but eyther in the entrie, or in their iourney, hee destroyeth or +woundeth. And if hee killeth them not betwixt one mountayne and another, +they passe the seuen circuites to the next mount.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And they that enter in by the first tower or <ins class = "mycorr" title += "text reads ‘mouut’">mount</ins> (wherevppon is this tytle inscript +<span class = "greek" title = "Greek: DOXA KOSMIKÊÔS POMPHOLYS.">ΔΟΞΑ +ΚΟΣΜΙΚΗΩΣ ΠΟΜΦΟΛΥΣ</span>) They sayle in a little shippe with a +prosperous winde, and securely at pleasure: the fruites and flowers fall +downe vppon theyr hatches, and with great solace and pleasure they cut +through by the seauen reuolutions with a merry winde, vntill the second +mount bee discouered and come <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads +‘vuto’">vnto</ins>. And marke and beholde (<i>Poliphilus</i>) howe +cleare and bright the ayre is in the entrance, ouer that it is in the +center, about the which is thicke darknesse.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the first mount or tower there is alwayes resident a pittifull matron +and bountifull, before whome standeth an auncient appoynted vessell +called <i>Vrna</i>, in a readinesse, hauing vppon it seauen Greeke +letters as thus <span class = "greek" title = "Greek: +THESPION">ΘΕΣΠΙΟΝ</span>, full of appoynted honie, and to euerie one +that entereth in, verie curteously and with a good will shee giueth one +of them without respecte of state and condition, but according to theyr +enterance.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +These beeing receyued, they came foorth, and begin to sayle in the +Laborynth, the water beeing enuyroned vpon either sides, with roses, +trees, and fruits.</p> + +<!--png 147--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +And hauing sayled the first seuen reuolutions of <i>Aries</i>, and being +come to the second mount, there they meet with innumerable troopes of +yong women of diuerse conditions, which demaund of euerie one the sight +of theyr honye, which beeing shewed vnto them, they straightwayes knowe +the propertie of the hony, and the goodnesse thereof, and embracing him +as theyr guest, they inuyte him with them to passe through the next +seuen reuolutions, and with diuerse exercises according to her inclyned +promptnes, they accompany them to the third mount.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In this place hee that will goe on forwards with his companion, shee +will neuer abandon or leaue him: for there bee farre more pleasaunt +voluptuous women. And many refuse the first and make choyse of them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the putting off from the second mount, to come to the third, they +finde the current of the water somewhat agaynst them, and stand in neede +of oares, but beeing fallen off from the thirde mount, making theyr +course towardes the fourth, they finde the tide and streame more against +them, and in these seauen oblique courses their pleasure is variable and +vnconstant.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Beeing come to the fourth mount, they finde other yoong women combatting +and fighting, and those examining theyr pottes of honie, they intice +them to theyr exercise, but those that refuse to leaue theyr first +companions, they let passe together, and in this cyrcuite the water is +yet more contrary and troublesome, where there is neede of great studie +and labour to passe on.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And beeing come to the fift mount, they finde it speculable, lyke a +mirrour wherein they see theyr representations, and in that they take +great delyght, and with a feruent desire they passe on their laboursome +course. In that mount they see this sentence and golden saying +manyfested, <i>Medium tenuere beati</i>: not lyneall, nor locall, but +temporall, where by a sincere and perfect examination hee discerneth +that meane wherewith he hath ioyned his felicitie, wisdome and riches: +which if not well, in the rest of his course he faynteth the more.</p> + +<!--png 148--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">69</span> +<span class = "folionum">T</span> +And losing off from thence, the Waters by reason of the broken circles, +beginne to be verie slyding towards the Center, so that with small or no +rowing they are brought to the sixt Mount. And there they finde elegant +Women, with a shew of heauenly modestie and diuine worship, with whose +amiable aspects and countenaunces, the Trauailers are taken in their +loue, condemning their former with despite and hatefull abhorrence. And +with these they fall acquainted, and passe the seauen reuolucions.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +These beeing come ouer with an obscure and foggy close ayre, with many +losses and a grieuous voyage, they beginne to remember what they haue +past and lost: for the more that the compasse of the reuolucion, draweth +neere to the discouerie of the Figure of the Center, the sooner they are +passed ouer, styll shorter and shorter, and the more swyfter the course +of the streame is into the deuouring swallow of the Center.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And then with extreame affliction and bitter anguish remembring the +abuse of their pleasures, and companions that they haue forsaken, and +sweete places, which so much the more augmenteth their sorrowes, for +that they can not returne or goe backe with theyr Shyppe, such a +companie still follow them vppon the stearne with their fore-castles. +And most of all dysmayeth them the heauie sentence ouer the median +Center, <i>Theonlykos Dys Algetos</i><a class = "tag" name = "endtag21" +href = "#endnote21">21</a>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And there, considering the displeasant tytle, they curse the time of +their entrance into the Labirinth, which hath in it so manie sundry +delights, and the end of them subiect to such myserable and ineuitable +necessity.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And then she smyling, said: <i>Poliphilus</i>, ouer the deuouring throat +of thys Center, there sitteth a seuere Iudge, balancing euery ones +actions, and helping whom hee will helpe. And because that it will be +tedious to tell thee all, let thus much heereof suffise. Let vs goe +downe to our cõpanion <i>Thelemia</i>, who demanding the cause why they +staid so long aboue, <i>Logistica</i> made aunswer, it doth not content +our <i>Poliphilus</i>, onely to behold, but also to vnderstand by me the +secrecie of those things, which he could not goe to knowe, wherein I +haue <ins class = "mycorr" title = "hyphen in original">satis-fied</ins> +him. And when she had ended, <i>Thelemia</i> said.</p> + +<!--png 149--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Let vs goe a little while to an other garden no lesse pleasant ioyning +to the glasse garden, vppon the right side of the Pallas: and when wee +were come in thither, I was amazed with excessiue wondering, to see the +curiousnesse of the worke; as vneasie to report as vncredible to +beleeue: æquiuolent with that of glasse, wyth lyke disposition of +benches or bankes; theyr lyppes set out with coronising and golden +ground worke, and such trees, but that the boxes and Cyprus trees, were +all silke, sauing the bodies and greater branches, or the strength of +the armes: the rest, as the leaues, flowers, and outermost rynde, was of +fine silke, wanting no store of Pearles to beautifie the same: and the +perfect fine collour, smelling as the glasse flowers beforementioned, +and alike, but that they about compassing walles, of meruailous and +incredible sumpteousnesse, were all couered ouer with a crusting of +Pearle, close ioyned and set together: and towardes the toppe, there +sprouted out greene yuie, the leaues thickning and bushing out from the +Pearles, vvith the stringes and veines of golde, running vppe in diuers +places betwixt the Pearles, in a most rare and curious sort, as if it +had beene very growing yuie, with berries of precious stones sette in +the stalkes in little bunches: and in the bushes were Ringe-doues of +silke, as if they had beene feeding of the berries, all along the sides +of the square plotted garden walles: ouer the which, in master-like and +requisite order, stretched out the beame and Zophor of golde.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The plaine smoth of the settles, where-vpon the boxe trees stoode, +couered ouer with Histories of loue and venerie, in a worke of silke and +threddes of golde and siluer, in suche a perfect proportioned ymaginarie +and counterfaiting as none may goe beyonde. The ground of the leuell +garden, was of leaues, grasse, and flowers of silke, like a faire sweete +meddowe: in the midst whereof, there was a large and goodly round +Arbour, made with golde wyer, and ouerspread with roses of the lyke +worke, more beautifull to the eye, then if they had been growing roses, +vnder which couering, and within which Arbour about the sides, were +seates of red Diaspre, & all the round pauemẽt of a yellow Diaspre, +according to the largenes of the place, +<!--png 150--> +<span class = "pagenum">70</span> +<span class = "folionum">T2</span> +with dyuers colloured spottings, confusedly agreeing together in +pleasant adulterated vniting, and so cleere and shining, that to euery +obiect was it selfe gaine represented. Vnder the which Arbour, the fayre +and pleasant <i>Thelemia</i>, solaciously sitting downe, tooke her Lute +which she carryed with her, and with a heauenly melodie and vn-hearde +sweetenesse, she began to sing in the commendation and delightes of her +Queene. And seeing what a grace vnto her, the company of her fellowe +<i>Logistica</i> was, I maruailed why <i>Apollo</i> came not to harken +the Harmonie made by them: it was so melodious, that for the present +tyme a man woulde haue thought that there had beene no greater +fælicitie. And after that shee ended her diuine Poems, <i>Logistica</i> +tooke me by the hande and led me foorth of the Arbour, saying +vnto me.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Poliphilus</i>, thou shalt vnderstande that the deuise of these +obiects, are more pleasant to bee vnderstoode then behelde, and +therefore lette vs enter in heere, to bee satisfied in both.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And from thence, shee and her companion brought mee from thys garden to +an other, where I behelde an arching <i>Areostile</i>, from the ground +bent to the toppe, fyue paces in height and three ouer, and thus +continued rounde about the compasse of the garden, in an orderly and +requisite proportioning, all inuested and couered ouer with greene yuie, +so that no part of the wall was to be seene. And there were a hundred +Arches to the compassing of this garden.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +By euery of the Arches, was an Aulter of red Porphirite, curiously +proportioned with exquisite lyneaments; and vppon euery one of them was +placed, an image of golde, like a Nymph, of rare and beautifull +semblances, diuersly apparelled, and varying in theyr attyre and heade +dressing, euery one bending their eyes towards the Center of the +garden.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In which middle Centricke place, there was founded a Base, of a cleere +Christal-like Calcedonie stone, in a Cubic forme: that is, euery way a +like square. And vppon that was set a round stone, but flatte vppon both +sides, two foote high, and by the Diameter, one pace and a halfe ouer, +of most pure red Diaspre. Vppon the which, stoode a most blacke stone, +in forme three square, and in quantitie for breadth, fitting the rounde, +and in +<!--png 151--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +height one pace and a halfe. The corners of which triangle did iumpe +with the sides, and lymbus of the subiacent plynth or round stone.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the smooth polished fronts of which triangle, there was appact a +beautifull Image, of a heauenly aspect, graue and modest, with their +feete not touching the stone, but standing out from the same iust ouer +the suppressed and vnder put rounde stone. Theyr statures as tall as the +trygonall would beare, vnto the which they did stick fast by their backe +parts. Theyr armes were stretched abroade, both the right and left to +the corners of the triangle, where they held a Coppy, filled and fastned +to the corners of the Trigonall, the length of euery one of which +Coppies of fine gold, was seauen foote.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the Images, the Coppyes, and their bandes wherewith they were tyed +in the midst and held by, were all shyning, and their hands inuiluped +with the sundry stringes, flynging about the plaine smothe of the black +stone.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Their habits were Nymphish, of most rare and most excellent working. The +Sepulchre of <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: Italian has ‘Tarina’"><i>Tarnia</i></ins> +the Queene of the <i>Scythians</i> in +<i>Asia</i>, was nothing comparable.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the lowest Cubicall Figure, vpon the smoth plaine of euery square, +were ingrauen Greeke Letters, three, one, two and three on thys sort. +<span class = "greek" title = "DYS A LÔ TOS">ΔΥΣ Α ΛΩ ΤΟΣ</span>.</p> + +<p class = "illustration bodytext rightfloat"> +<img src = "images/pic_71r.jpg" align = "right" +width = "213" height = "670" alt = "Illustration"> +</p> + +<!--png 152--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">71</span> +In the circular there were three Characters Hieragliphicall, +perpendicularly vnder the feet of euerie Image. For the first, was +impressed the forme of the Sonne. Next vnder another, the figure of an +olde fashioned Ower.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Thirdly, a dyshe with a burning flame in it.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the heade of the trygonall blacke stone, towarde euerie corner, I +did behold an Egiptian Monster of Gold, fower footed couchant. One of +thẽ hauing a face lyke man altogether. The other like half a man, & +halfe a beast. And the third like a beast. VVith a linnen vaile ouer +euery of their heades, with two Labels hanging ouer theyr eares, & +the rest descending downe and couering their necks & backes, with +the bodies of Lyons. Theyr lookes directly forward.</p> + +<!--png 153--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Vppon the backs of these three, dyd stande rysing vp a massiue Spyre of +Gold, three square, sharpning vp to the toppe, fiue tymes as high as +broade below. And vpon euery front or foreside, was grauen a circle, and +ouer one circle a Greeke Letter, +<span class = "greek" title = "O">Ο</span>. ouer another, a Letter +<span class = "greek" title = "Ô">Ω</span>. and ouer the third, a Greeke +<span class = "greek" title = "N">Ν</span>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There <i>Logistica</i> beganne to speake vnto me, saying, by these +Figures are discribed, so farre as mans reason can shewe, the celestiall +harmony. And vnderstand <i>Poliphilus</i>, that these Figures, with a +perpetuall affynitie and coniunction, are auncient Monuments, and +Egiptian Hieragliphs, signifying this, <i>Diuinæ infinitæque trinitati +vnius essentiæ</i>. Which is now by his holy word, in a most louing sort +manifested to the whole world, according to his will: and yet it shall +not be a misse to see antiquities, and consider what greater benefite is +had by the precious Gospel.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The lower Figure was consecrated to the Deitie, because it is euerie way +alike, and all one: and vpon euery side, and turned euery way, of like +stablenes, vpon euery base, constant and permanent.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The round Circular standing vppon that, is without beginning or ende. +Vppon the circumferent sides whereof, these three lyneaments are +contained, directly vnder euerie Image, according to the property +attributed.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Sunne with his comfortable light, giueth life to euerie thing, and +his nature is attributed to <span class = "extended">GOD</span>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The second is the Ower, which is prouident direction, and gouernment of +all with an infinite wisedome.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The third is a Fyerie Vessell, whereby is vnderstoode a partycipation of +Loue.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And although that they be three distinct things, yet they are contained +& vnited in one sempeternallie, with great loue communicating their +blessings, as you may see by the coppies at euery corner of the +trygonall stone.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And continuing her delectable speech, shee sayd, vnder the forme of the +Sunne, note this Greeke worde, <i>Adiegetos</i>. By the <ins class = +"mycorr" title = "so in original">Owe</ins> looke vpon this, +<i>Adiachoristos</i>. And by the Vessel of fier, was engrauen, +<i>Adiereynes</i><a class = "tag" name = "endtag22" href = +"#endnote22">22</a>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And to this ende are the three Monsters placed vnder the golden +Obelisque, because that there be three great opinions +<!--png 154--> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘73’">72</ins></span> +like those Monsters: & as that with the humane countenaunce is best, +so the other be beastly and monstrous.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the Spyre there be three plaine sides, lyneated with three circles, +signifying one for euery time. The past, the present, and to come; and +no other figure can holde these three circles, but in that inuariable. +And no mortall man can at one instant perfectlie discerne and see +together two sides of the same figure, sauing one integrally, which is +the Present: and therefore vppon great knowledge were these three +Characters engrauen, <span class = "greek" title = "Greek: O. Ô. N">Ο. +Ω. Ν</span>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For which cause <i>Poliphilus</i>, not that I excuse my selfe for beeing +ouer prolix and tedious, but briefely to teach thee, and sette thee +right vp. In the knowledge heereof, thou shalt vnderstand, that the +first basiall Figure is onely knowne to hymselfe, and to one Sonne of +man, which hath a humane bodie glorifyed and without sinne: and the +brightnes thereof wee see but as in a glasse, and not cleerely as it is, +for that it is incomprehensible for a fynite substance.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +But he that is indued with wisedome, let him consider of the glorious +brightnes thereof. But to the thirde Figure, which is of a darke and +blacke collour, wherein be the three golden Images: <i>The Blacke stone +is the Lawe: the Coppies foode: the three Women the preseruation of +Man-kind.</i></p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nowe they which will looke higher, they see a Figure in a tryne aspect, +and the higher that they goe towardes the toppe, where the vnion of the +three is, be they neuer so wise, their vnderstanding is vnperfect: and +although that they see it, yet they knowe not what they see, but that +there is such a thing, in comparison whereof, they are fooles, theyr +power weake, and themselues nothing.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And there <i>Logistica</i> hauing ended her allowed talke, proceeding +from an absolute knowledge, deepe iudgement, and sharpnesse of wit in +Diuine matters, and vnknowne to weake capacities, I began heereat to +take greater delight, then in any other meruailous worke what soeuer, +that I had graciously beholden with my greedy eyes. Considering with my +selfe of the mysticall Obelisque, the ineffable equality statarie, for +durablenesse and perpetuitie vnmoueable, and enduring vncorruptible.</p> + +<!--png 155--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Where there breathed a sweet ayre from heauen, with vnuariable windes, +in this Garden round about full of flowers, of a large and circular +permanent plot: compassed about with all sorts of fruites, pleasant in +taste and full of health; with a perpetuall greenesse, disposed and set +by a regular order, both beautifull, pleasant, and conuenient; with the +perfect labour and indeuour of Nature to bring it to that passe, and +beautified with precious gold.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And <i>Logistica</i> holding her peace, they tooke mee both by the +hands, and we went out at the mouth of one of the Arches from the +precyncts of the Iuied inclosure. And beeing gone from thence, very +contentedly passing on betwixt them both, saith <i>Thelemia</i>, let vs +now hasten on to our three Gates whether we are sent.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Where-vpon, we passing through a plentiful seate and pleasant Countrey, +with a reasonable conuenient pace, I beheld the heauens very cleere +& bright, & beguiled the tyme with merry, sweet, and delightfull +discourses. And I desirous to vnderstand euery particular of the +inestimable riches, vnspeakeable delights and incomparable treasure of +the sacred Queene, (to the which <i>Osyris</i> the builder of the two +Temples of Golde, one to <i>Iupiter</i>, and the other to the kingdome, +must giue place,) I mooued this question.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Tell me I beseech you fayre Nymphes, (if my curiosity bee not to your +discontentment) amongst all the precious stones that I could perfectly +behold of great estimation and pryce, one I deemed inestimable, and +without comparison most precious; The Iasper which had the effigies of +<i>Nero</i> cut, it was not much bigger. Neither was the Coruscant to +passe in the statue of <i>Arsinoe</i> the <i>Arabian</i> Queene equall +with it. Next her, of such value was the Iewell, wherein was the +representation of <i>Nonius</i> the Senator, as this sparkling and +shyning Dyamond, of a rare and vnseene beautie and bignes, which did +hang vpon a rich Carkenet about the snowie necke of the sacred Queene, +what cutting was in the same, which I could not perceiue by meanes of +the brightnesse and my beeing some-what farre of. And therefore I beeing +therein ignoraunt, desyre to knowe the same.</p> + +<!--png 156--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">73</span> +<span class = "folionum">V</span> +<i>Logistica</i> considering of my honest demaund, aunswered me +incontinently. Know this <i>Poliphilus</i>, in the Iewell was ingrauen +an imperiall throne, and in the throne the mighty name of <i>Iehouah</i> +in Hebrew Letters, and before that throne, are cast downe and troden +vnder foote, the Gyants which proudly haue lift vp themselues against +his worde, and resisted hys will: vppon the left side of the throne is a +flame of fire, vppon the right hande a horne of saluation, or Copie full +of all good blessednes, and this is all that is contained in the +Iewell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then I presumed further to knowe, what should these two things vpon +eyther sides of the throne signifie, that were holden out in two handes. +<i>Thelemia</i> quickly aunswered me, God of his infinite goodnesse, +proposeth to mankind his mercie and his iudgement, chuse which they +will.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For thys beeing <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"hyphen in original (at mid-line) both times">satis-fied</ins>, +I sayd moreouer. Seeing that most gracious Nymphs, my speeches be not +displeasant vnto you, and that I am not yet satis-fied in all that I +haue seene, I pray you let me vnderstand this.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Before the horrible feare that I was driuen into by the Dragon, I beheld +a mighty huge Elephant of stone, with an entrance into his bellie, where +were two Sepulchres, with a wryting, the meaning wherof is too mysticall +for me, that was, that I shoulde not touch the bodie, but take away the +head.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Logistica</i> forthwith made me aunswer. <i>Poliphilus</i>, I doe +vnderstande very well your doubt, and therefore you shall vnderstande, +that this monstrous shape and machine was not made without great and +wonderfull humane wisedome, much labour, and incredible diligence, with +a perplexibility of vnderstanding to knowe the mysticall conceite. Thou +remembrest that vpon the face there hung an ornament, with certaine +<i>Ideonix ionic</i> and <i>Arabic</i>, which in our Mother-tongue, is +as much to say, as labour, and industrie. <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘Sgnifying’">Signifying</ins> thereby, that in thys world, +whosoeuer will haue any blessing that shall do him good, he must leaue +the body, which is ease and idlenes, and betake himselfe to trauaile and +industry, which is the head.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Shee had no sooner ended her words both pleasant & piercing, but I +vnderstoode it very well and gaue her great thankes. And yet desirous to +be resolued in whatsoeuer I stood in doubt, +<!--png 157--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +and seeing that I might speake boldly, I made this third question. Most +wise Nymph, in my comming out of the subterraneall vast darksome place, +as I passed on, I came to a goodlie bridge, and vppon the same, in a +Porphyrite stone vppon the one side, and an Ophite vpon the other, I +beheld engrauen certaine Hieragliphs, both which I did interprete, but I +stoode doubtfull of certaine branches, that were tyed to the hornes of +the scalpe of the Oxe, and the rather because they were in the +Porphyrite stone, and not in the Ophit vpon the other side.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +The crown of thorne vpon Christes head.</span> +She aunswered me straight way. The braunches, one is of the Thistle or +thorne of Iudea, and the other of the Turbentine. The nature of which +Woodes bee, that the one will not easily take fire, and the other will +neither bend, rotte, consume, nor be eaten with wormes. And so that +patience is commended, which with anger is not kindled, nor by aduersity +will bee subdued.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The nature of the Porphyrit stone is of this secrecie, that in the +fornace it will neither burne it selfe, but also causeth other stones +neere adioyning that they shall not burne. And of that nature is +patience, that it will neither be altered itselfe, nor suffer any other +wherein it beareth rule to fall into a furie. And the Ophite stone is of +such nature also.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Nowe <i>Poliphilus</i>, I doe greatly commende you, in that you are +desirous to vnderstand such secrets: for to behold, consider, and +measure the same, is a commendable vertue, and the way to knowledge: +whereuppon I had occasion giuen to render innumerable thanks, for her +great and fauourable curtesies.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus with allowed and delightfull discoursing speeches, we came to a +fayre Riuer, vpon the banck whereof, besides other fayre greene and +florishing Trees, and water hearbes, I beheld a fine Groue of Plane +Trees, in the which was an excellent fayre bridge ouer the Riuer made of +stone, with three Arches, with pyles bearing foorth against the two +fronts, to preserue the worke of the bridge, the sides thereof beeing of +excellent workmanship.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And in the middle bending of the same, vpon eyther sides, there was a +square stone of Porphyrite set, hauing in it a Catagliphic, engrauing of +Hieragliphies.</p> + +<!--png 158--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">74</span> +<span class = "folionum">V2</span> +Vpon the right hand as I went ouer, I beheld a woman, casting abroade +her armes, sitting onely vppon one buttocke, putting foorth one of her +legges as if shee woulde rise; In her right hand, vpon that side which +shee did sitte, shee helde a payre of winges, and in the other hand, +vppon that side whereon she was arysing, a Tortice.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Right against her, there was a Circle, the center wherof two little +Spyrits did hold, with their backs turned towards the circumference of +the Circle.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And then <i>Logistica</i> saide vnto me, <i>Poliphilus</i>, I am sure +that thou doost not vnderstand these Hieragliphs, but they make much for +thy purpose: and therfore they are placed for a Monument and thing to be +considered, of such as passe by.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Circle <i>Medium tenuere beati</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The other, temper thy hast by staying, and thy slownesse by rysing, +consider heereof as thou seest cause.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This bridge was built with a moderate bending, shewing the cunning +disquisition, tryall, examination, arte, and discretion of the excellent +workman and inuenter, commended in the continuaunce and durablenesse +thereof, which manie of our Bayard-like moderne Idiots, without +knowledge, measure and arte buzzing on, neither obserue proportion nor +lyneaments, but all out of order.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This bridge was all of pure Marble.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +When wee had passed ouer the bridge, wee walked in the coole shadow, +delighted with the variable notes and chirpings of small byrds, to a +rocky and stony place, where high & craggie Mountaines lifted vp +themselues, afterwarde continuing to abrupt and wilesome hilly places, +full of broken and nybled stones, mounting vppe into the ayre, as high +as a man might looke to, and without any greene grasse or hearbe, and +there were hewen out the three gates, in the verie rocke it selfe, euen +as plaine as might be.<a class = "tag" name = "endtag23" href = +"#endnote23">23</a> A worke verie auncient and past record, in a very +displeasant seate.</p> + +<!--png 159--> +<p class = "illustration"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<img src = "images/page_74v.jpg" width = "374" height = "514" +alt = "doorway with text in four languages"></p> + +<!--png 160--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">75</span> +<span class = "folionum">V3</span> +Ouer euery one of the which, I beheld in Letters Ionic, Romaine, Hebrew +and Arabic, the tytle that the sacred Queene <i>Eleutherillida</i> +fore-told me that I should find. The Gate vppon my <ins class = "mycorr" +title = "so in original">right hand</ins>, had vpon it this word, +<i>Theodoxia</i>. That vppon my left hand, <i>Cosmodoxia</i>. And the +thirde, <i>Erototrophos</i>. Vnto the which as soone as we were come, +the Damosels beganne to instruct me in the tytles, and knocking in the +resounding leaues of the Gates, vppon the right hande couered ouer with +greene mosse, they were presently opened.<a class = "tag" name = +"endtag24" href = "#endnote24">24</a></p> + +<p class = "main"> +And ther dyd an olde woman present herselfe vnto vs, of an honourable +countenaunce, out of an olde dawbed and smoakie house, hauing a poore +base little doore, ouer the which was painted <i>Pilurania</i>. +Shee came with a modest and honest +shamefastnesse, and her dwelling place was in a solitarie site and +shadie Rocke, decayed and crumbly, her clothes were tattered, her +face leane, pale & poore. Her eyes looking towards the ground, +her name was <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: Italian has ‘Theude’"><i>Thende</i></ins>. +Shee had attending vpon her sixe Handmaydes, basely and slenderly +apparrelled. One was named <i>Parthenia</i>, the second <i>Edosia</i>, +an other <i>Hypocolinia</i>, the fourth <i>Pinotidia</i>, the next +<i>Tapinosa</i>, the last <i>Prochina</i>. Which reuerent Matron, with +her right arme naked poynted to the heauens.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +She dwelt in a place very hard to come vnto, and ful of troubles to +passe on the way, beeing hyndered with thorne and bryers, very rough and +displeasant, a mistie clowde cast ouer it, and very hard to clymbe vp +into.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Logistica</i> perceiuing by my looke that I had no great lyking in +this place, some-what greeued therewith, said, this Rocke is knowne +neuer but at the end. And then <i>Thelemia</i> sayde, <i>Poliphilus</i>, +I see you make small regarde of such a painefull woman. Whereat I +assenting to her with my countenaunce, wee departed, and the gate being +shut we came to the next.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Where knocking, it was presently opened, and wee entering in, there met +vs a browne woman, with fierce eyes rowling, and of a quicke +countenaunce, lyfting vp a naked glittering sworde, vpon the middle +wherof was a Crowne of golde, and a branche of Palme tree +intrauersed.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Her armes brawnie like <i>Hercules</i>, in labour and acts magnanimious +and nobly minded. Her belly small. A little mouth, +<!--png 161--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +strong and stooping shoulders, by her countenaunce seeming to bee of an +vndaunted minde, not fearing to vndertake any enterprise how hard +soeuer.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Her name was <i>Euclelia</i>, verie honourablie attended vppon with sixe +young Women. The first was called <i>Merimnasia</i>, the second, +<i>Epitide</i>, another, <i>Ergasilea</i>, the fourth, <i>Anectea</i>, +the fift was named <i>Statia</i>, the last was called +<i>Olistea</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The situation and place me thought was painefull, and <i>Logistica</i> +perceiuing my inclynation, presentlie tooke into her hand +<i>Thelemias</i> Lute, and beganne to strike a doricall tune, and sung +to the same verie sweetly, saying. O <i>Poliphilus</i> be not wearie to +take paynes in thys place, for when labour and trauell is ouer-come, +there will be a tyme of rest. And her songe was of such force, that I +was euen consenting to remaine there, notwithstanding that, the +habitation seemed laboursome. Wherevppon, <i>Thelemia</i> inticingly +said vnto me, I think that it standeth with verie great reason my +<i>Poliphilus</i>, that before you set downe your rest heere in this +place, you ought in any case to see the third Gate.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Whereunto I consented with a very good will, and therefore going out +from hence, we came to the other Gate, where <i>Thelemia</i> knocking at +a ring of Brasse, it was forth-with sette open, and when wee were come +in, there came towardes vs a notable goodly woman, and her name was +<i>Philtronia</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Her regards were wanton, lasciuious, and vnconstant, her grace +wonderfull pleasant, so as at the verie first sight shee violently drew +me into her loue.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This place was the Mansion-house of Voluptuousnes. The grounde decked +with small hearbes, and adorned with all sorts of sundrie flowers, +abounding with solace and quiet ease. Issuing and sending foorth in +diuers places small streames of water, pyppling and slyding downe vpon +the Amber grauell in theyr crooking Channels heere and there, by some +suddaine fall making a still continued noyse, to great pleasure +moystning the open fieldes, and making the shadowed places vnder the +leaffye Trees, coole and fresh.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Shee had with her also sixe young women of like statures, passing fayre, +of pleasant countenaunces, amorously adorned, +<!--png 162--> +<span class = "pagenum">76</span> +and dressed as may bee desired of an ambitious beautie and gesture.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The first was called <i>Rastonelia</i>. The second, <i>Cortasina</i>. +The thirde, <i>Idonesa</i>. The fourth, <i>Triphelia</i>. The fift, <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "so in original: Italian has +‘Etiania’"><i>Epiania</i></ins>. And the last was named <i>Adia</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +These and their companie, were very delightfull to my gasing and +searching eyes. VVhere-vppon <i>Logistica</i> presentlie with a sad and +grieued countenaunce, seeing mee disposing my selfe abruptlie to the +seruile loue of them, shee said vnto mee, O <i>Poliphilus</i>, the +alluring and inticing beauties of these, are vaine, deceiueable, and +counterfeited, vnsauorie and displeasant, and therefore if thou wouldest +with aduisement looke vppon their backes, thou wouldest then hate, +contemne, and abhorre theyr lothsome filthinesse and shame, abounding in +stinke and noysome sauoure aboue any dunghill, which no stomacke can +abide.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And therefore what is slypperie and transitorie flye and eschewe, +despise that pleasure which bringeth shame and repentance, vaine hopes, +a short and small ioy, with perpetuall complaynts, doubtfull sighes, and +a sorrowful life neuer ending.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh adulterated and vnkindly pleasure, fraught with miserie, contayning +such bitternesse, like honnie, and yet gall dropping from greene +leaues.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +O lyfe worse then death, and yet deadly, delighted in sweete poyson, +with what care, sorrow, pensiue thoughts, mortall and desperate +attempts, art thou sought for to bee obtained by blind Louers, who +without regarde or aduise cast themselues headlong into a gulfe of +sorrowes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +They be present before thine eyes, and yet thou seest them not. Oh what +and howe great sorrowes, bitter and sharpe paine and vexation doost thou +beare, wicked, execrable and accursed appetite.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +O detestable madnesse, oh beguiled senses, by your faulte with the selfe +same beastlie pleasure, myserable mortall men are ouerthrowne.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh filthy lust, absurd furie, disordinate and vaine desire, building +nests with errours, and torments for vvounded +<!--png 163--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +harts, the vtter destroyer, and idle letting goe by of all good +blessings.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh blinde Monster, how doost thou blinde, and with what deceipt doost +thou couer the eyes, and deceiue the vnderstanding sences of vnhappie +and miserable Louers with vailes and mystes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +O monstrous and slauish, which compassed with so manie euils, hastenest +to so small pleasure poysoned and fayned.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Logistica</i> speaking with vehemencie these and such lyke words, her +fore-head frowning, wrympling with sorrowes, and veines, rysing vp in a +great rage, shee cast her Lute vppon the ground and brake it.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +VVhere-vppon <i>Thelemia</i>, with a smyling countenaunce, nodded +towards mee, as if shee shoulde say, let <i>Logistica</i> speake her +pleasure, but doe as you see good your selfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And <i>Logistica</i> seeing my wicked intent and resolute determination, +beeing kindled with disdaine, turned her backe, and with a great sigh +hastened away.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And I remained still with my companion <i>Thelemia</i>, vvho with a +flattering and smyling grace said vnto me, <i>Poliphilus</i>, this is +the place where thou shalt not continue long, but thou shalt finde the +deerest thing which thou louest in the world, & which thou hast in +thy hart, without intermission determined to seeke and desire.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And doubtfully then discoursing with my selfe, I was resolued that +nothing coulde breede quiet, or bring content to my poore grieued hart, +but my best desired <i>Polia</i>. The promise and warrantise of +<i>Thelemia</i> for my obtayning the same, bred in mee some comfort.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And shee perceiuing that the Mistris of thys place, and the seate it +selfe, and her Women dyd bothe please mee vvell, and entertained mee +courteously, shee kissing mee, tooke her leaue and gaue me a +fare-well.</p> + +<!--png 164--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">77</span> +<span class = "folionum">X</span> +The metallyne gates beeing shut, I remayned incloystered among these +fayre and beautifull Nymphes, who began very pleasantly and wantonly to +deuise with mee: and beeing hemmed in with their lasciuious company, I +found my selfe prouoked by their perswasiue alluring intisements, to +vnlawfull concupiscence, feeling in my selfe a burning desire, kyndled +with their wanton aspects, an increasing prouocation of a lusting fier. +I doubt me that if <i>Phrine</i> had beene of that fauour, and force in +gesture of speech, colde <i>Xenocrates</i> would haue consented to her +alluring, and not haue beene accused by her, to be an image of stone. +Their countenances were so lasciuious, their breastes naked and +intycing, theyr eyes flattering, in their roseall forheads, glystering +and rowling, their shapes most excellent, their apparell rich, their +motions girlish, theyr regards byting, theyr ornaments, sweete and +precious, no part counterfeited, but all perfected by nature in an +excellent sort, nothing deformed, but all partes aunswerable one to an +other.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Their heades yellowe, their tresses fayre, and the hayre soft and fine, +in such a sort dressed vp and rouled into trammels, with laces of silke +and golde, passing any ioye that a man may beholde, turned about their +heads in an excellent manner, inuiluxed, and bound vppe together, their +forheades compassed about and shaddowed with wauering curles, mouably +præpending in a wonderfull manner, marueilous delightfull, perfumed +& sweet, yeelding an vnknown fragrancie. Their speeches so +perswasorie and pleasing, as might robbe the fauour of an indesposed +hart, and violently drawe vnto them any mind, though Satyr-like or +churlish howsoeuer, to depraue Religion, to binde euery loose conceit, +to make any rusty Peasant amorous, and to mollifie any froward +disposition. Vppon which occasion, my minde, altogether set on fier with +a new desire, and in the extreame heate of concupiscence, prouoked to +fall headlong into a lasciuious appetite, & drowned in lustfull loue +vnbridled: in the extreame inuasion and infectious contage thereof, the +Damoselles forsooke mee and left me all alone in a fruitfull playne.</p> + + + + +<!--png 165--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<p class = "intro"> +In this place Poliphilus being left alone, a most fayre Nymphe (when hee +was forsaken of the lasciuious company) came vnto him, whose beautie and +apparell Poliphilus dooth amourously describe.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capM.jpg" align = "left" +width = "197" height = "194" alt = "M"> +<span class = "hidden">M</span>y tender heart thus excessiuely wounded +with amorous prouocation, I think I was mad, I stood so amazed, or +blinde at the least, because that I coulde not perceiue in what sort or +how this desired and delightfull company gaue mee the slip: and at last +not knowing what I did, but casting mine eyes right forward, I behelde +before mee, a fine Arbour of sweete Gessamine, somewhat high, lifting +vppe and bending ouer, all to bee painted and decked with the pleasant +and odoriferous flowers of three sortes commixt, and entring in vnder +the same. Wonderfully perplexed for the losse of my company, I knewe not +howe or in what sort, and calling to remembraunce the diuers, rare and +wonderfull thinges past, and aboue al the great hope and trust which I +had conceiued vpon the Queenes promise, that I should finde my loue +<i>Polia</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Alas said I, with a deepe sigh, my <i>Polia</i>, that the greene Arbour +resounded againe therewithall, my amourous breathings were such, framed +within and sent out from my burning hart. And I was no sooner entered +into this agony, and ouerwhelmed in this passion, but as I passed on to +the other ende of the Arbor, I might perceiue a farre off, a great +number of youthes, solacing and sporting themselues very loude with +diuers melodious soundes, with pleasant sports and sundry pastimes, in +great ioye, and passing delight assembled together, in a large playne. +Vppon this gratefull and desired noueltie, I set me down marueiling at +it, before I would step any further on.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And beholde, a most noble and faire Nymph, with a burning torch in her +hand, departing from the company, tended her course towardes mee, so as +I might well perceiue that shee was a reall mayde indeede and no +spirite, whervpon I mooued not one whit, but gladly expected her +comming, who with a maidenly hast, modest accesse, star-like +countenance, and smiling grace, drewe neere +<!--png 166--> +<span class = "pagenum">78</span> +<span class = "folionum">X2</span> +vnto mee with such a Maiestie, and yet friendly, so as I doubt me, the +amorous <i>Idalea</i> neuer shewed her selfe to <i>Mars</i>, nor to her +the fayre Pastor <i>Adonis</i>. Nor the delicate <i>Ganimed</i> to +<i>Iupiter</i>, or <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘the the’">the</ins> +fayre <i>Psyches</i>, to her spouse <i>Cupid</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +For which cause, if shee had beene the fourth among the three contending +Goddesses, if <i>Joue</i> had beene Iudge, as in the shady Wooddes of +<ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: Italian has ‘Mesanlone’"><i>Mensunlone</i></ins> +was the Phrigian Sheepheard, +without all doubt she had beene iudged of farre more excellent beautie, +and without equiuolence, more worthy of the golden apple, then all or +any one of the rest. At the first sight I was perswaded that shee had +beene <i>Polia</i>, but the place vnaccustomed & her apparell made +mee thinke the contrarie, and therefore my doubtfull iudgement remained +in suspence, hauing onely a reuerent suspition therof.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This honourable Nymph, had her virgineall diuine and small body couered +with a thinne subtill stuffe of greene silke, powdered with golde, vppon +a smocke of pure white coorled Lawne, couering her most delicate and +tender body, and snowye skinne, as fine and good as euer <i>Pamphila</i> +the daughter to <i>Platis</i> in the Iland of Coo, did inuent to weaue. +Which white smocke seemed as if it had couered damaske Roses.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The coate which she wore ouer that, was not like our fashioned +petticoates with French wastes, for that her sweete proporcioned body +needed no such pinching in, & vnholsome weare, hyndering procreation +and an enemie to health: but rather like a wastcoate, with little +plightes and gathers vnder her rounde and pretty bearing out breasts, +vpon her slender and small waste, ouer her large proportioned flanckes +and little round belly, fast girded about with a girdle of golde: and +ouer the same, a gowne or garment side to the ground, and welted +belowe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This garment beeing very side, was taken vp round about the pitch of her +hippes, and before vpon her belly, & tyed about with the studded +marriage girdle of <i>Citherea</i>, the plucking vp of y<sup>e</sup> +garment, bearing ouer the girdle about her like a french vardingale, +& the nethermost part falling down about her feet in plightes and +fouldes, vnstable and blowne about with the sweete ayre & coole +winde, causing sometime, by the thinnesse thereof, her shape to be seene +in it, which shee seemed with a prompt readinesse to resist and hynder. +Her beautie and grace was such, as I stoode in doubt whether shee were +begotten by any humaine generation: her +<!--png 167--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +armes stretching downe, her handes long and slender, her fingers small +and fayre, and her nayles thinne and ruddy, and shining, as if she had +beene <i>Minerua</i> her selfe. Her armes to be seene through the cleere +thinnesse of the Lawne, the winges about the size of her garment where +her armes came out, were of golde, in an excellent sort and fashion +welted, and set with Pearle and stone: and in like sort, all the hemming +about of her vesture, with golde ooes, and Pearle, and spangles of golde +in diuers places, distantly disposed in a curious and pleasant sort to +beholde.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon either side, vnder the armes to her waste, her vpper garment was +vnsowed and open, but fastened with three buttons of great Orient Pearle +(such as <i>Cleopatra</i> neuer had to dissolue in a Potion) in loopes +of blewe silke, so that you might see her smocke betweene the distance +of one Pearle from an other, couering her daintie soft snowye thinne +skinne: except her small necke and the vpper halfe of her spatious and +delitious breast, more desired and contenting mine eyes, then the water +brookes and coole Ryuers to the emboste and chased Hart, more pleasing +then the fisher boate of <i>Endimion</i> to <i>Cynthia</i>, and more +pleasant then <i>Cithera</i> to <i>Orpheus</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The sleeues of her smocke of a conuenient largenesse, and about her +wristes plighted and tyed with Bracelets of Golde, double and vnited +with Orient Pearle. And besides all her ornaments and gracious gestures, +she indeuoured nowe and then with stolen and affected regards, in a +sweet & pleasant sort, to cast down her eyes vpon her little round +swelling breastes, impatient at the suppressing of her soft and fine +apparell: so as I iudged vppon good consideration, and thought that in +the dignitie and honourable frame of her personage, the Creator had +framed and vnited together, all the violence of Loue. The foure Nourses +of the royall Kingdome of Babilon, called <i>The tongue of the Gods</i>, +had not that powre to winne fauour and loue of the King, which this most +sweet Nymph had.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +About her fayre Necke, more white then the Scithian snowe, shee wore a +Carkenet of Oryent Pearle: <i>Cerna</i> the wife of <i>Cæsar</i> neuer +had the like, and I doubt me that that of <i>Eriphile</i>, which she +tooke to <i>Amphiaraus</i>, was nothing comparable vnto it. And in the +bending downe ouer the deuision of her breastes, betwixt two great +Pearles, there was laced a corruscant rounde Rubie, and +<!--png 168--> +<span class = "pagenum">79</span> +<span class = "folionum">X3</span> +vppon the collaterate sides of the sayde Pearles, two glistering +Saphires, and two Pearles, next them two Emeraldes, & two Pearles, +and after them two fayre Iacinthes: all these Pearles and Stones were +laced in a worke in losenges, in a rare and beautifull manner.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Her fayre heade, sending downe and vnfolding a loose spreading abroade +of plentifull hayre, like the smallest threds of golde, wauing with the +winde, and vpon her crowne, a garland of tawny vyolets sweetly smelling, +and couering the same almost to her forheade: from the middle vpper +point whereof, in forme of two Hemycycles to the halfe of her eares, it +mounted vppe in curled trammelles, falling downe againe vppon her fayre +Temples, moueably wauing and shaddowing the same, and hyding the vpper +halfe of her small eares, more fayre then euer was reported of +<i>Mimoria</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The rest of her yellowe haire, descended downe ouer her fayre necke, +well disposed shoulders, and straight backe, to the calues of her +slender legges, moderatly wauing and blowne abroad, in greater beautie +than the proude eyed feathers of <i>Iunoes</i> Birde. Such hayre as +<i>Berenice</i> did neuer vow in the venereous Temple for her +<i>Tholomaus</i>, nor <i>Conus</i> the Mathematrician did euer beholde +the like placed in the Triangule.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In her forehead, vnder two subtile blacke Hemycicles and distinct eye +brees, such as <i>Abacsine</i> in Æthiopia had not to boast of, or +compare with, nor <i>Juno</i> her selfe, did looke out and present +themselues two pleasant radious and glistering eyes, which would enforce +<i>Jupiter</i> to rayne golde, of a cleere sight, quicke and pearcing, +with a browne circle betwixt the Apple and the milchie white: neere to +the which, were her purple and Cherry cheekes, beautified with two round +smyling dimples, gracing the pleasure of her countenaunce, of the +collour of the fresh Roses gathered at the rysing of the Sunne, and +layde in a vessell of the Christall of Cyprus, and shewing through the +same, as me thought.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vnder her nose to her lyppes, passed a little valley to her small mouth +of a most sweete forme, her lyppes not blabbered or swelling, but +indifferent, & of a rubye collour, couering two vniforme sets of +teeth, like yuory, and small, not one longer and sharper than an other, +but in order euenly disposed and set: from betwixt the which, Loue had +composed an euerlasting sweet breathing, so as I +<!--png 169--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +presumed to thinke, that the snow white teeth betwixt her gracious +lyppes, were no other but Oryent Pearles, & her sweet breath hot +Muske, and by her delightfull voyce that she was <i>Thespis</i> with her +nine daughters.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +By all which sight I was greatly mooued and my sences rauished with a +kindled appetite, causing among them great strife and bitter contention, +such as I neuer felt before, by any other presence or excellent sightes +whatsoeuer. My searching eyes commended one part aboue another, to bee +more beautifull: but my appetite rapt into an other part of her heauenly +body, esteeming that aboue the other. And thus my insatiable and wanton +eyes, were the euill beginning of all thys perturbing and contentious +commotion, whome I founde the seminaries and moouers of all so great +strife and trouble, in my wounded and festering heart. Through theyr +contumacy, I was now brought from my selfe, and neuerthelesse, I could +not be satisfied by them. My greedy appetyte extolled her delicate +breast aboue any comparison, my eyes delightfully consenting thervnto, +sayd, at least by that we may discouer what y<sup>e</sup> rest is; And +they, glauncing from that to the regarde of her grace and gesture, set +all their delight therein: and my appetite strengthened and not easilie +remooued from thence, I perswaded my selfe, that the plentie and +fayrenesse of her head and hayre, and the dressing thereof, and the +beautie of her forheade, coulde neuer bee compared with of any one or +other, like the scrapings of golde alwaies turning into little +roundels.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +With two eyes lyke morning starres in a cleere heauen, more beautifully +adorning her heade, than any that euer the warlike <i>Neco</i> behelde +among the <i>Acitanians</i>, wounding my heart like one of the arrowes +of the angrie <i>Cupid</i>. And thus to conclude, I dare be bolde to +say, that no mortall man hath seene, so gracious, so shyning, so cleere +and pleasant lightes as these were placed in the forhead of this +heauenly creature; so that by them my hart was taken prisoner, & was +filled with such continuall cõtrouersies of desire, as if a leafe of the +Laurell of the Tombe of the king of <i>Bibria</i> had bin placed +betwixt, & that strife should neuer cease whilst it was there: so as +I thought that this strife would neuer cease, vntill the pleasure were +taken away, by reason wherof, I could not perceiue howe I shoulde +obtaine the fulnes of my desire, or howe it coulde agree with either one +or other. Like one extreamely hungry among +<!--png 170--> +<span class = "pagenum">80</span> +a number of prepared meates being desirous of all, feedes of none, his +burning appetite remayning satisfied with none, but still hungry.</p> + + + + +<p class = "intro"> +The most fayre Nymph beeing come to Poliphilus, bearing a Torch in her +left hand, with the other tooke him and inuited him to walke with her, +and there Poliphilus by her loue was more inflamed.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capT_1.jpg" align = "left" +width = "205" height = "204" alt = "T"> +<span class = "hidden">T</span>hus seing before me, a reall and visible +obiect of a most excellent representation, louely presence and heauenly +aspect, of a plentifull store and vniuersall gathering of vnseene +beautie, and inhumaine comelinesse, I made light and slender account, in +respect heereof, of all the inestimable delights, riches, and great +pompe which before I had behelde and seene, thinking their worthinesse +nothing to speake of, in comparison of this. Oh happie hee that may +enioy such and so great a treasure of loue; and not onely a happie +possessor I account him, but most happie that shall possesse and obtaine +her obedience, to hys desire and rule. But if <i>Zenes</i> had behelde +this substance, hee would haue commended the same aboue all the +<i>Agrigentine</i> maides, euery proprotion would haue made vnto him an +oportune shewe of the absolutest perfection in the whole world.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which fayre and heauenly Nymph nowe comming neere vnto me, with a +cheerefull countenance, incontinently her most rare beautie, before +somewhat a farre of looked vppon with mine eyes, but nowe, by them more +neere and narrowly behelde, I was rauished and amased.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And her amorous aspect and louely presence, was no sooner brought by the +message of mine eyes to my inward partes, but my recording and watchfull +remembrance, stirring and waking vppe my heart, presenting and offering +her vnto the same: it is become her shoppe; the quiuer for her piercing +arrowes and wounding regardes, and the dwelling place and conseruable +mansion house, of her sweete picture. Knowing that this was shee which +had tædiously consumed my tender yeeres, in her hotte and prime loue, +<!--png 171--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +not to be resisted. For I felt the same leaping and beating against my +breast, without ceasing, like as one that striketh vpon a hoarse Taber. +And still me thought by her louely and delightfull countenance, by her +fayre tresses, and the curling and wauing haire, playing vp and downe +vppon her forheade, that it should be <i>Polia</i>, whome so greatly I +had loued and desired, and for whom I had sustained so many & sundry +griefes, without intermission, sending out scalding sighes, the outward +reporters of my inwarde flames. But her rich and Nymphish habite, +vnaccustomed, and the place vnknowne and strange, made mee still +doubtfull and suspicious.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Shee (as beforesaide) carried in her snowe white left arme, close to her +body, a kindled and burning Torch, somewhat higher then her heade a good +deale, and the lower ende growing smaller and smaller, shee helde in her +hande: and stretching foorth that which was at libertie, more white then +euer had <i>Pelopea</i>, wherein appeared the thinne smoothnes of the +skynne, and the blewnesse of the veynes lyke Azure streames, vppon the +faire and whitest paper. Shee <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘toooke’">tooke</ins> +me by the left hande with a sweete and louing +countenance and smiling grace, and with an eloquent speech, shee +pleasantly saide in this manner.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Poliphilus</i>, I thinke my selfe to come in saftie, but it seemeth +that you stand doubtfull. Heereat I was more amazed, and my sences in a +manner gone to imagine howe she should knowe my name; and al my inward +parts vanquished, and hemmed in with burning amorous flames, my speech +was taken from mee with feare and reuerent bashfulnesse.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In this sort remayning, I knewe not vppon the suddaine what good +aunswere I might make, or otherwise doe her reuerence, but to offer her +my vnworthy and vnfit hande; Which when it was streined in hers, me +thought that it was in hot snowe and curded milke, and me thought +indeede, that I touched and handled something which was more then +humaine; which when I had so done, I remained moued in minde, troubled +and doubtfull, vnaccustomed to such a companion, not knowing what to +say, or whether to followe her, in my simple apparell and homely +bringing vp, not agreeable with hers: and as a foole, vnworthy and vnfit +for her fellowship, perswading my selfe, that it was not lawfull for a +mortall and earthly creature to enioy such pleasures. For which cause, +my +<!--png 172--> +<span class = "pagenum">81</span> +<span class = "folionum">Y</span> +collour red and blushing, with reuerent admiration, being grieued at my +basenesse, I setled my selfe to followe her.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At length,and yet not with a perfect recalled minde, I beganne to reduce +and sommon together, my fearefull and distempered spirites: perswading +my selfe, that I must needes haue good successe, being neere so faire +and diuine an obiect, and in such a place; And so followed her on with a +panting heart, more shaking than the birde <i>Sisura</i>, or a Lambe +carryed in the mouth of a Wolfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus touched most feruently with pleasant heates, growing & +encreasing more & more, they began to boyle & kindle my colde +feare, and dispositiuely to adopt my altered heate to sincere loue. +Which being thus brought to thys passe, by a prouoked inward desire, yet +inwardly as I reasoned with my selfe, it was wonderfully variable and +doubtfull. Oh most happye Louer of all Louers, that in requitall of hys, +might bee sure to participate of hers.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +On the other side, I perswaded my selfe, that if I shoulde offer vnto +her my amorous heart and loue, hauing no better thing to bestow vpon +her, or present vnto her, it might be that she would not refuse it: like +<i>Artaxerxes</i>, the King of the Percians; who hauing water presented +to hys handes, accepted of it bowing downe himselfe. Heerewithall, me +thought yet that a fearefull and chill trembling inuaded mee, infusing +it selfe ouer all my body and breast, renewing the force of the extreame +fire, euen like dry reede: which being once kindled, is enflamed and +nourished with the fresh ayre, vntill at length it is increased so +mightily, that it consumeth all to ashes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And in like sorte, I fully founde in my selfe, an increase and flashing +abroade of my inwarde flames, in their prepared subject, so effectually, +that her amorous regardes gaue me mortall and deadly woundes: euen as +lightning and thunder, among the stronge and mightie oakes, suddainely +with a great force, scorching & tearing them. And therefore I durst +not looke vpon her bright eyes, because that dooing so, (being ouercome +with the incredible beauty of her gracious aspect) if peraduenture her +radious beames did reincounter mutually with myne, for a little while +euery thinge seemed two vnto mee, vntill I had closed the lyddes +together, and restored them to theyr former light.</p> + +<!--png 173--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Wherevpon, and by reason of these thinges captiuated, spoyled, and +ouercome, I determined at that instant to plucke vp some fresh flowers, +and in all humble sort to offer them vnto her, and it came to passe, +that whilst my secret thoughts consented thervnto, consygning a free +meane and large entrance, for the discouery of my desire. But my burning +heart humbly hauing opened the same, euen as a rype Apple being eyther +bytten or shaken, so it fell and fayled me. And receiuing into his +wounded and familiar estuation, in some interposition of time, +immediatly his accustomed heat and feruor increased, piercing the inward +parts with her virgineall aspects, exceedingly beautified with a comely +grace and vnexcogitable elegancie; Because, that into this sweete +introduction into my minde, of these first amorous flames, (lyke the +Troian horse, full of weapons and deceite) the enterance was made for an +euerlasting, vnknown, and vncessant plague, deeply festering in my +tender and poore heart, perpetually remayning: which easily ouercome +with one sweete looke, inconsiderately without delay, hasteneth his owne +hurt, and wholly layeth it selfe open to amorous incursions, and burneth +it selfe with sweet conceits, going into the flames of his owne +accord.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +To all which burning desires her present company did greatly inforce +mee, which I esteemed to yeelde mee more comfort, then the North starre +in a tempestuous night to the troubled Marriner: more acceptable then +that of <i>Melicta</i> to <i>Adonis</i>, or to <i>Phrodites</i>, the +obsequious Nymph <i>Peristera</i>: and more delightfull then +<i>Dittander</i> to the daughter of <i>Dydo</i>, with the Purple flowre +for the wounde of <i>Pius Æneas</i>: And finding my heart strooken and +inwardly pricking, secretly filled and compressiuely stuft; recording +and gathering together into it, varyable thoughts and working of Loue, +my immedicable wounde grewe greater and greater. But gathering vp the +remaynder of my sences, as one that durst, I assured my selfe to +manifest and lay open before her, my intended desires and amorous +conceites. And thus loosing my selfe in a blinde folly. I could not +choose but giue place to my inuading desires, feruently boyling and +inforcing me to say thus.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh delycate and heauenly Damosell, whatsoeuer thou art, thy forcyble +loue hath set me on fire, and consumeth my grieued heart; I finde my +selfe all ouer, burning in an vncessant flame, and a sharpe dart cast +into the middest of my breast, where it sticketh +<!--png 174--> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘28’">82</ins></span> +<span class = "folionum">Y2</span> +fast, hauing made a mortall wounde vncurable. And hauing spoken thus, to +the ende I might discouer vnto her my hidden desire, and moderate by +that meanes the extreamitie of my bitter passions: vvhich I felt, the +more they were concealed, the more to augment and increase, I patiently +helde my peace: and by this meanes all those feruent and greeuous +agitations, doubtfull thoughtes, wanton and vyolent desires, were +somewhat supprest; with my ill fauoured Gowne, that had still some of +the Bramble leaues and prickes in the Wood hanging vpon it, and euen as +a Peacocke in the pride of his feathers, beholding the fowlenesse of his +feete, pulleth downe hys traine: so I considering the inequallitie of my +selfe, with such a heauenly obiect, appaled the prouocations of my +contumacious and high desires, looking into the vanities of my +thoughtes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And then I earnestly endeuoured by all the meanes that I might, to +subdue, encloyster, and keepe in, my vnbridled gadding appetite, +wandring minde, and immodest desire, intending nowe that it should neuer +be vttered againe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +At length I beganne to thinke in the secret depth of my wounded heart, +that vndoubtedly this my present continued griefe, was equall with that +of wicked <i>Tantalus</i>, to whose hotte and thirsting lyppes, the +coole and cleere water did offer it selfe, and to his hungry appetite, +the sweete fruites honge ouer hys gaping mouth appresenting, but he +neuer tasted any of either.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Ah woe is mee euen in like sort, a most fayre Nymph of an excellent +shape, of a florishing age, of Angel-like behauiour vnspeakable, and of +rare honour and exceeding curtesie as mine eies coulde beholde, whose +company exceeded any exquesite humaine content; and I, iust by her, full +of all whatsoeuer prouocation, forcing sollaciously loue and desire, +heaping vppe in her selfe the whole perfections of delight, and yet my +yauning and voluptuous desire, neuer the more thereby satisfied.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Well, on this sorte my burning concupiscence nothing allayed, as much as +I might, I comforted my languishing hart, vnmeasurably tormented, in +putting of it in minde, of solacious and amorous hope: and with that, +there was neuer a coale so neere put out, but it was presently renued +and set on fire, with the company of the next. And my vnbridled eyes, +the more they were vnarmed to resist her power, the more they were +inflamed with the insolent desire +<!--png 175--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +and liking of her wonderfull and heauenly beautie; Still seeming more +faire, more excellent, more louely, more to be desired, extreamly apt +and præpared for loue: euedently shewing foorth in her selfe, a +wonderfull increase of sweete pleasure.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Afterwards I thought with my selfe, it may be that she is some creature +which I may not desire, and it may bee the place is not fitte for such +thoughtes, and then it may bee I haue made a wise worke, and spunne a +fayre thred, if I should bee punished for my impudencie, like +<i>Ixion</i>. In like sort, the Thracian had neuer founde the deepe +seate of <i>Neptune</i>, if he had not medled with <i>Tethis</i>; and +<i>Gallantide</i>, the mayde of <i>Lucina</i>, shoulde not haue brought +foorth in her mouth, if hee had not deceiued. It may that thys Nymph is +spowsed to some high and mightie Prince, and I to offer her this +dishonour, what am I worthy of?</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus resoning with my selfe, I thought that those thinges which had +but slender assurance, woulde lightly slyppe away, and that it would not +be hard to deceiue, where was no watchfull regarde: and to bolde +spirites, Fortune was not altogether fayling: and besides, that it was +harde to knowe a mans thought. Where-vpon, euen as <i>Calistone</i>, +being ashamed at her swelling belley, shronke aside from the presence of +<i>Diana</i>; so I withdrewe my selfe, blushing at my attempt, and +bridling my <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘incouenient’">inconuenient</ins> +desires. Yet with a lincious eye, I +neuer left to examine, with great delight, the extreame beautie of the +excellent Nymph, disposing my selfe to her sweete loue, with an +vnfallyble, obstinate, and firme resolution.</p> + + + + +<!--png 176--> +<span class = "pagenum">83</span> +<span class = "folionum">Y3</span> +<p class = "intro"> +Polia, as yet vnknowne to her Louer Poliphilus, shee gratiously assureth +him: who for her extreame beautie, hee indeuoreth his minde to loue. And +both of them going to the triumphes, they see innumerable youths and +Damosels, sporting with great delight.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capT_1.jpg" align = "left" +width = "205" height = "204" alt = "T"> +<span class = "hidden">T</span>he Archer <i>Cupid</i>, in my wounding +heart hauing his residence, like a Lord and king, holding me tyed in the +bands of Loue, I found my selfe pricked and grieuously tormented, in his +tyrannous and yet pleasant regiment. And abounding in doubtfull delight, +vnmeasurably sighing, I watered my plaints; and then the surmounting +Nymph, with a pleasing grace, incontinently gaue me comfort, and with +her ruddy and fayre spoken lyppes, framing violent and attractiue +wordes, she gaue me assurance: abandoning and remouing from my heart, +all fearefull thoughts, with her Olymphicall aspects, and cooling with +her eloquent speeches, my burning heart; and with an amorous and +friendly regarde, and cast of her eyes, and smiling grace, she saide +thus vnto mee.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<i>Poliphilus</i>, I woulde thou shouldest vnderstand and know thys, +that true and vertuous loue hath no respect of outward things, and +therefore let not the basenes of thy apparell, diminish or lessen thy +minde, if perhaps noble and gentle, and worthy of these places, and +fitte to beholde these maruellous tryumphes; Therefore let not thy minde +be dismayed with feare, but dilligently behold what Kingdomes they +possesse, that are crowned by <i>Venus</i>. I meane, such as bee +strongly agonished and yet perseuere still, seruing and attending vpon +her amorous Aultars and sacred flames, vntill they obtaine her lawfull +fauour. And then making an ende of her short and sweet speech, both of +vs making forward, our pace neither too fast nor too slowe, but in a +measure; I thought thus, and thus discoursing with my selfe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh most valiant <i>Perseus</i>, thou wouldest more feirsly haue fought +with the cruell Dragon, for the fauour of this, then for the loue of thy +fayre <i>Andromada</i>. And after.</p> + +<!--png 177--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Oh <i>Iason</i>, if the marriage of this had beene offered vnto thee, +with a more greater and more daungerous aduenture, then the obtayning of +the golden fleece, thou wouldest haue let goe that, and vndertaken this, +with a greater courage, esteeming it aboue al the iewelles and precious +treasures of the whole worlde; I, more then those of the ritch and +mightie Queene <i>Eleutherillida</i>. Continually seeming more fayre, +more beautifull, and more louely. <i>Hippodamia</i>, and all the greedy +scraping and doubtfull Vsurers, neuer tooke such delight in getting of +gold. A quyet Harbour was neuer so welcome to a destressed Marryner, in +a stormy, darke, and tempesteous winter night: nor the wished and +oportune fall of rayne, at the prayer of <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original"><i>Cræsus</i></ins>, as the louing consent of this +daintie Nymph: more welcome to mee, then bloody broyles to warlike +<i>Mars</i>, or the first fruites of <i>Creta</i> to <i>Dionisius</i>: +or the warbling Harpe to <i>Apollo</i>: and yet more gratefull, then +fertill grounde, full eares, and plentifull yeelding, to the labouring +Husbandman.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus in most contented sort, passing on and pressing down the +thicke, greene, and coole grasse: sometime my searching and busie eyes, +woulde haue a cast with her pretty & small feete, passing well +fitted with shooes of Red leather, growing broader from the instept, +narrowe at the toe, and close about the heele; and sometimes her fine +and moueable legges, (her vesture of silke beeing blowne about with the +winde, vppon her virgineall partes) discouered themselues. If I might +haue seene them, I do imagine that they did looke like the finest flower +of <i>Peloponesus</i>, or like the purest milke, coagulated with +Muske.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +By all which most delectable thinges, tyed and bounde in the harde and +inextricable knots of vehement loue, more vneasie to vndoe then that of +<i>Hercules</i>, or that which <i>Alexander</i> the great did cut in +sunder with hys sworde: and amorously masked in rowled nettes, and my +subdued <ins class = "mycorr" title = "text reads ‘haert’">heart</ins>, +helde downe withe grieued cogitations and burning desires, leading mee +whether they would, I founde in it more pricking torments then faythfull +<i>Regulus</i> in Aphrica. So that my sorrowing spirites exasperated +with an amorous desire and extreame vexation, continually burning in my +panting breast, coulde by no meanes bee asswaged, but with supping vp of +continuall sobbings, and breathing out of their flying losse. And thus +drowned in a mist of doubts, and seeing me vyolently taken in her loue, +I saide thus to my selfe.</p> + +<!--png 178--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">84</span> +O <i>Poliphilus</i>, howe canst thou leaue at any tyme thy inseperable +loue, kindled towardes thy sweete <i>Polia</i>, for any other? And +therewithall, from this Nymph, thus close and fast bounde, more strongly +thẽ in the clawes of a Creuise or Lobstar, endeuouring to vntie my +selfe, I found it no easie peece of worke, so that I coulde not choose +but greeuously binde my troubled hart, to the loue and affecting of this +by all likelihoodes, hauing the true shape, sweete resemblance, and +gratious behauiour of my most beloued <i>Polia</i>. But aboue all +thinges, this came more neere vnto mee and grieued me worst, howe I +should bee assured that shee was <i>Polia</i>. Wherevppon, from my watry +eyes, the salt teares immediatly tryckling downe, it seemed vnto me a +hard & contemptuous matter, to banish from my forlorne and poore +heart, his olde soueraigne Lady and Mistresse, and to entertaine a newe, +strange, and vnknowne Tyrannyzer.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Afterwards, I comforted my selfe again, with thinking that peraduenture +this was shee, according to the sacred Oracle and true speech, of the +mighty Queene <i>Eleutherillida</i>: and therefore, that I should not +shrinke or stoope vnder my burthen; for if I were not greatly deceiued, +this was shee indeede. And hauing made thys amorous and discoursiue +thought and swasiue præsuppose, abandoning all other desires whatsoeuer, +I onely determined with my heart and minde, to come backe againe to this +noble and excellent Nymph; in whose great loue I beeing thus taken, with +extreame compulsion, I was bolde with an vnaccustomed admyration, +dilligently to looke vpon her rare shape, and louely features, my eyes +making themselues the swallowing whirlpooles of her incomparable +beautie: and they were no sooner opened, hotly to take in the sweete +pleasure of her so benigne and conspicuous presence, but they were +strengthened for euer, to hold with them solaciously agreeing, the +assembly of all my other captiued sences, that from her and no other, I +did seeke the mittegation and quenching of my amorous flames. And in +this sort we came, whilst I was thus cruelly wounded by exasperating +Loue, somewhat vppon the right side of the spacious fielde.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In which place, were set greene trees, thicke with leaues, and full of +flowers, bearing fruite, rounde about the place and seate of such +variable and diuers sorts, neuer fading but still greene, giuing great +content to the delightfull beholder.</p> + +<!--png 179--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +The gallant and pleasant Nymphe there stayed; and I also stood still: +Where looking about, by the benignitie of the fruitfull playne, with +halfe my sight, because I coulde not altogether withdrawe the same from +the amorous obiect; I behelde very neere vnto vs, a certaine shewe of an +inuyroning company, tryumphing and dauncing about vs, of most braue and +fine youthes, without beardes and vnshorne heares, but that of their +heads bushing, curling, and wrything, without any art or effæminate +crysping: crowned and dressed, with garlands and wreathes of diuers +flowers, and red Roses, with leauye Myrtle, with purple Amaranth or +flower gentle, and Melliot: and with them a great company of yonge +maydes, more fayre and delicate then bee to bee founde in Sparta; Both +kindes apparelled very richly, in silkes of changable collours, hyding +the perfect collour; some in Purple & Murry, and some in white +curled Sendall, such as Ægipt neuer affoorded, and of dyuers other +collours: some Tawney, some Crymosen, others in Greene, some in Vyolet, +some in Blewe, Peach collour, Peacocke collour, perfectly engrayned, as +euer Corica coulde yeelde: and powdered and wouen with golde, and edged +and hemmed about With orient Pearle and stones set in pure golde; some +in gownes, and others in hunting sutes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the most of the beautifull Nymphes, had their fayre haire smoothly +bounde vppe together, and thrise rowled about, with an excellent +finishing knot; Others had their vnstable & wauing tresses, +spreading downe ouer their fayre neckes. Some, with aboundance of haire, +cast vp ouer their forheades, and the endes turning into curles, & +shaddowing ouer the fayrenes of the same: so as Nature and not Arte, +shewed her selfe therein a beautifull mistresse; With fillets and laces +of golde, edged with orient Pearle, and others in Caules of golde, +wearing about theyr slender neckes, rich and precious Carkenets and, +necklaces, of Pearles and stone, and depending iewelles. And vppon theyr +small eares, did hange dyuers precious stones, and ouer the variable +dressings of theyr heades, before in two Hemycicles, were set shoddowes +of oryent Pearle and stone, in flowers of hayre.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +All which excellent ornaments, together with theyr most elegant +personages, were easily able to alter, any churlish, vile or obstinate +heart.</p> + +<!--png 180--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">85</span> +<span class = "folionum">Z</span> +Theyr fayre breastes, in a voluptuous and wanton sort, were bare to the +middest of them: And vppon their prettie feete, some wore sandalles, +after the auncient manner, beeing soles, and the foote bare fastened to +the same, with a small chaine of golde, comming vp betwixt the great toe +and the middle, and the little toe and the next, about the heele ouer +the instep, and fastening vppon the vpper part, betwixt the toes and the +instep, in a flower. Others hauing straight shooes, claspt vppon the +instep with flowers of golde. Their stockings of silke; some of Purple, +some of Carnation, some of parted collours: such as <i>Caius +Galicola</i> neuer first brought vp. Others wearing Buskins, vppon the +white swelling calfes of their legges, and laced with silke; some butned +wyth golde and precious stone.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Their fore-heades most fayre, and beautified with the moueable wauinges +of theyr crysping hayre couered ouer with a thinne vayle, lyke a Spiders +vvebbe. Theyr eyes byting and alluring, more bright, than the twinkling +starres in a cleere ayre, vnder theyr circulate brees: vvith a small +nose, betwixt their rounde and cherry cheekes: their teeth orderly +disposed, small and euen set, of the collour of refyned siluer: vppon +the rest, betwixt their sweet and soft lyppes: of the collour of +Corrall.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Many of them carrying instruments of Musique, such as neuer were seene +in <i>Ausonia</i>, nor in the handes of <i>Orpheus</i>: yeelding in the +flowring Meadowe & smoth playne, most delightfull sounds, with +sweete voyces and noyces of ioye and tryumphing: and to increase the +glory, amorously stryuing and contending one with an other, vvith +solacious and pleasant acts, accompanied with faire speeches and +friendly aspects. And in this place, with a most delectable applause, I +behelde foure Tryumphes, so precious and sumptuously set foorth, as +neuer any mortall eye hath seene.</p> + + + + +<!--png 181--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<p class = "intro"> +Poliphilus in this prescribed place, did beholde foure tryumphing +Chariots, all set with precious stones and iewelles, by a great number +of youthes, in the honour of Iupiter.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capT_3.jpg" align = "left" +width = "191" height = "190" alt = "T"> +<span class = "hidden">T</span>he first of the foure marueilous +tryumphant Chariots, had foure rounde wheeles, of Perfect greene +Emeralds of Scythia; the rest of the Chariot did amase mee to beholde, +beeing made all of table Dyamonds: not of Arabia or Cyprus, of the newe +Myne, as our Lapidaries call them: but of India, resisting the harde +stroakes of yron and steele, abyding the hote fire & striuing +therwith, mollified onely with the warme bloode of Goates, gratefull in +the Magicall arte; which stones, were wonderfully cut of a Cataglyphic +explicature, and set very curiously in fine golde.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the right side of the Chariot, I sawe expressed, the +representation of a noble Nymph, with many accompanying her in a +Meddowe, crowning of victorious Bulles with garlands of flowers, and one +abyding by her very tamely.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The same Nymph, vppon the other side was also represented, who hauing +mounted vp vppon the backe of the Bull, which was gentle and white, he +carryed her ouer the sea.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the fore-ende I behelde <i>Cupid</i>, with a great number of +wounded people and Nations, marueiling to see him shoote into the ayre. +And in the hinder part, <i>Mars</i> standing before <i>Iupiter</i>, +mourning because the boy had shotte through his impenetrable +Brest-plate, and shewing the wounde, and with the other hande, holding +out his arme, he helde this worde <i>Nemo</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The fashion of this Chariot was quadrangulat, of two perfect squares, +longe wayes, of sixe foote in length and three foote in height, with a +bearing out coronice aboue and vnder the plynth: and about the same a +plaine, in breadth two foote and a halfe, and in length fiue foot and a +halfe, bearing towards the Coronice, all ouer scally, with precious +stones, with an altered congresse and order of collours, variably +disposed. And vppon the foure corners, were fastned foure coppies, +inuersed, and the mouth lying vpward +<!--png 182--> +<span class = "pagenum">86</span> +<span class = "folionum">Z2</span> +vpon the proiect corner of the Coronice, full of fruites and flowers cut +of precious stones, as it were growing out of a foliature of golde. The +hornes were chased neere their mouth, with the leaues of Poppy, and +wrythen in the belly: the gracylament & outward bending, ioyning +fast to the ende of the plaine, and breaking of in an olde fashioned +iagged leaf-worke, lying a long vnder the backe of the Coppisse, and of +the same mettall. Vpon euery corner of the Plynth, from the Coronice +downeward, there was a foote lyke a Harpies, with an excellent +conuersion and turning vppon eyther sides of the leaues of Acanthus.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The wheeles, aboue the naues and axeltrees, were closed within the +Chariot, and the sides thereof vnder the Harpies feete, bent somewhat +vpward and growing lesser, turned rounde downward, wherevnto the +furniture or trace to drawe it by, were fastned: and where the axeltree +was, there vpon the side of the bottom of the Charriot, ouer the naue of +the wheele, there came downe a prepention ioyning to the Plynth, twise +so long as deepe, of two foliatures, one extending one way and the other +an other way: and vpon the middle thereof and lowest part, was a Rose of +fiue leaues, in the seede whereof, the ende of the axeltree +did lye.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the aforesaide Playne, I behelde the ymage of a fayre white and +tame Bull, trymmed and dressed with flowers, in manner like an Oxe for a +Sacrifice. And vppon his large and broade backe, did sit a princely +virgine, with long and slender armes, halfe naked; with her handes she +helde by his hornes. Her apparell was exquesite of greene silke and +golde, marueilously wouen, and of a Nymphish fashion, couering her body +and girded about her wast, edged about with Pearle and stone, and a +crowne of glittering golde vpon her fayre heade.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This Triumph, was drawne by sixe lasciuious Centaures, which came of the +fallen seede of the sausy and presumpteous <i>Ixion</i>: with a +furniture of gold vpon them, and a long their strong sides, like horses, +excellently framed and illaqueated in manner of a flagon chayne, whereby +they drewe the Tryumph; such as <i>Ericthonius</i> neuer inuented, for +swiftnesse.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon euery one of them did ride a goodly Nymph, with theyr shoulders one +towards an other: three, with their beautifull faces towards the right +side of the Tryumphes, and three to the left, with Instruments of +Musique, making together a heauenly harmonie +<!--png 183--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +and consort. Their hayres yellowe, and falling ouer their fayre neckes, +with Pancarpiall garlands of all manner of flowers, vpon their heades. +The two next the Tryumph, were apparelled in blewe silke, like the +collour of a Peacockes necke.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The middlemost in bright Crymosen: and the two formost in an Emerald +greene, not wanting any ornamentes to sette them foorth, singing so +sweetly with little rounde mouthes, and playing vppon their instruments, +within so celestiall a manner, as woulde keepe a man from euer +dying.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Centaures were crowned with yuie, that is called +<i>Dendrocyssos</i>. The two next the tryumph did beare in their handes, +two vesselles of an olde fashion, of the Topas of Arabia, of a bright +golden collour, gratefull to <i>Lucina</i>, and to the which, the waues +will be calme: slender at the bottom, bigge swelling in the belly, and +lessening small vp towardes the Orifice; In height two foote, without +eares: out of the which, did ascend a thicke smoake or fume, of an +inestimable fragrancie. The middlemost, did sounde Trumpets of golde, +with banners of silke and golde, fastned to the Trumpets in three +places.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The other two formost, with olde fashioned Cornets, agreeing in consort +with the Instruments of the Nymph.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vnder the which triumphant Chariot, were the Axeltrees conuently placed, +wherevppon the wheeles turned, and of a balustic lyneament, waxing small +towarde the ende and rounde: Which Axeltrees, were of fine pure golde +and massiue, neuer cankering or fretting; which is the deadly poyson and +destroyer of vertue and peaceable quyet.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This tryumph was solemnly celebrated, with moderate leaping and dauncing +about, and great applause: their habites were girded with skarfes, the +endes flying abroade.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And in like sort, those which did sit vpon the Centaures, commending in +their song, the occasion and mistery of the Tryumph, in voyces consonant +and cantionell verse; more pleasant than I am able to expresse, but let +this suffice.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<i>The second Tryumph.</i></p> + +<p class = "main"> +The next Tryumph, was not lesse worthy to be beholden then the first. +The foure wheeles, the spokes, and naues, were all +<!--png 184--> +<span class = "pagenum">87</span> +<span class = "folionum">Z3</span> +of Fulkish Agate, and in dyuers places white veines: such as King +<i>Pyrrhus</i> could not shewe, with the representation of the nine +Muses, and <i>Apollo</i> playing in the middest of them vppon his +Lute.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Axeltrees and fashion of the same like the other: but the Tables +were of orient blewe Saphire, hauing in them, as small as motes in the +Sunne, certaine glinces of golde, gratefull to the Magicke Arte, and of +<i>Cupid</i> beloued in the left hande.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the Table on the right side, I behelde engrauen, a goodly Matron +lying in a princely bed, beeing deliuered of two egges in a stately +Pallace: her Midwyues and other Matrons and yonge women, beeing greatly +astonished at the sight. Out of one of the which, spronge a flame of +fire: and out of the other egge two bright starres.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the other side were engrauen, the curious Parents, ignorant of +thys strange byrth, in the Temple of <i>Apollo</i>, before hys image, +asking by Oracle the cause and ende heereof, hauing this darke aunswere. +<i>Vni gratum Mare. Alterum gratum Mari.</i> And for thys ambiguous +aunswere they were reserued by their Parents.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the fore-ende of the Charyot, there was represented most liuely +the figure of <i>Cupid</i>, aloft in the skyes, with the sharpe heades +of his golden arrowes, wounding and making bleede the bodyes of dyuers +foure footed beastes, creeping Serpents, and flying Foules. And vppon +the earth, stoode dvuers persons, wondering at the force of such a +little slaue, and the effect of suche a vveake and slender Arrowe.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the hynder ende, <i>Iupiter</i> appoynting in hys steade, a prudent +and subtill Sheepehearde as a Iudge, awakened by hym, as hee lay +sleeping neere a most fayre Fountaine, whether of the three most fayre +Goddesses, hee esteemed best worthie. And hee beeing seduced by deuising +<i>Cupid</i>, gaue the Apple to the pleasant working <i>Venus</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This tryumphant Charyot, was drawen by sixe white Elephants, coupled two +and two together, such as will hardly be found in Agesinua, nor among +the Gandars of India. <i>Pompei</i> neuer +<!--png 185--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +had the like in his Tryumphes in Affricke: neither were the like seene +in the Tryumphes of the conquest of India; their tronckes armed with +deadly teeth of yuory, passing on theyr way and drawing together, making +a pleasant braying or noyse. Their furniture & traces of pure blewe +silke, twisted with threds of golde and siluer: the fastnings in the +furniture, all made vp with square or true loue knots, lyke square eares +of corne of the Mountaine Garganus. Their Poyterelles of golde, set with +Pearle and stone different in collours; the beautie of the one striuing +to excell the beautie of the other. And thus was all their furniture or +armings to the traces, of silke as aforesayde.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon them also, did ride (as before) sixe younge and tender Nymphes, in +like sort, but theyr Instruments different from the former, but agreeing +in consort: and what soeuer the first did, the same did these.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The first two were apparelled in Crymosen: the middle most two in fine +hayre collour: and the foremost in vyolet. The Caparisons of the +Eliphants were of cloth of golde, edged with great Pearles and precious +stones: And about their neckes were ornaments of great round iewelles, +and vpon their faces, great balles of Pearles, tasled with silke and +golde, vnstable and turning.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Ouer this stately Chariot tryumphant, I behelde a most white Swanne, in +the amorous imbracing of a noble Nymph, the daughter of <i>Theseus</i>, +of an incredible beautie: and vpon her lappe, sitting the same Swanne, +ouer her white thighes. She sate vppon two cushines of cloth of golde, +finely and softely wouen, with all the ornaments necessary for them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Her selfe apparelled in a Nimphish sort, in cloth of siluer, heere and +there powdered with golde, ouer one and vnder three, without defect or +want of any thing, requisite to the adorning of so honorable a +representation, which to the beholder, may occasion a pleasurable +delight. In euery sort performed with as great applause as the +first.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<i>The third Tryumph.</i></p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then followed the thyrd Tryumph, with foure wheles of Æthyopian +Chrysolite, sparkling out golde: that which hath beene helde in the +same, in olde time hath beene thought good to dryue +<!--png 186--> +<span class = "pagenum">88</span> +away malignant spirits. The wheeles vpwardly couered, as aforesaide, and +the naues and spokes of the same fashion, of greene Helitropia of +Cyprus: whose vertue is, to keepe secret in the day light, to diuine +giftes, full of drops of blood.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This Historie was engrauen vppon the right side of the Table thereof, as +followeth. <i>A man of great Maiestie, requesting to knowe what should +happen to his fayre daughter: her Father vnderstanding, that by her +meanes he should be dispossessed of his Crowne and dignitie; and to the +ende she shoulde not be carried away or stollen of any, he built a +mightie stronge Tower, and there, with a watchfull garde caused her to +bee kept: and shee remayning there in this sort with great content, had +falling into her virgineall lap, drops of Golde.</i></p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vppon the other side was chased out a valiant youth, who with great +reuerence did receiue a protection of a Christall shielde, and with his +sworde afterward cutting off the heade of a terryble woman, and +afterwardes proudly bearing her heade in signe of victorie; Out of the +hotte blood of whome, did rise vp a flying horse: who striking vppon a +Mountaine with one of hys houes, made a strange springe of water to +gush out.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the fore ende I behelde the mightie <i>Cupid</i>, drawing hys +golden Arrowe, and shooting the same vp into the heauens, causing them +to raine bloode: whereat a number stoode wonderfully amazed, of all +fortes of people. Vpon the other ende, I did see <i>Venus</i> in a +wonderfull displeasure, hauing taken her son by a Knight in a Net, and +getting him by the winges, she was about to plucke of his fethers: +hauing plucked of one handfull, that flewe about, the little elph crying +out pitteously; and an other sent from <i>Jupiter</i>, tooke him away +and saued him from his mother, and presented him to <i>Jupiter</i>: +against whose diuine mouth, were in Attic Letter these wordes written, +<span class = "greek" title = "Greek: SUMOIPL UKUSTEKAIPKROS">ΣΥΜΟΙΠΛ +ΥΚΥΣΤΕΚΑΙΠΚΡΟΣ</span><a class = "tag" name = "endtag25" href = +"#endnote25">25</a> and hee couered him in the lap of his celestiall +gowne.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This tryumphant Charriot, was pompously drawne with sixe fierce +Vnicornes: their heades like Harts, reuerencing the chaste <i>Diana</i>. +The poyterelles and furniture about their stronge breasts, was of golde, +set with precious stone, and fringed with siluer and hayre colloured +silke, tyed into knots, in manner of a net worke, and tasseled at euery +prependent point, their caparisons like the other before +spoken of.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon these did sit, six fayre virgines, in such pompe and manner +<!--png 187--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +as before, apparelled in cloth of golde, wouen with blewe silke into +diuers leaues & flowers; these had a consort of <ins class = +"mycorr" title = "reading unclear: ‘liuncyets’?">liuncyers</ins> winde +Instruments, full of spirite.<a class = "tag" name = "endtag26" href = +"#endnote26">26</a> And vppon the toppe of the Chariot, was placed a +stoole of green Iasper, set in siluer: needfull in byrth, and +medicinable for chastitie; at the foote it was sixe square, and growing +smaller towarde the seate, and from the middle to the foote, champhered +and furrowed, and vpward wrought with nextrulles: the seate whereof was +somewhat hallowed, for the more easily sitting vppon it. The Lyneaments +thereof most excellent.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +A loft vppon the same did sit a most singuler fayre Nymph, richly +apparelled in cloth of golde and blewe silke, dressed lyke a virgine, +and adorned with innumerable sortes of Pearles and stone; she shewed an +affectious delight, to beholde droppes of golde fall from heauen into +her lappe. She sate in solemne pompe like the other, and with great +applause, with her fayre and plentifull haire spreading downe ouer her +backe, crowned with a Dyademe of golde, set with sundry precious +stones.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<i>The fourth Tryumph.</i></p> + +<p class = "main"> +The fourth Tryumph was borne vppon foure wheeles, with Iron strakes, +forcibly beaten out without fire; All the rest of the Charyot, in +fashion like the former, was of burning Carbuncle, shewing light in the +darkest places, of an expolite cutting: past any reason, to thinke howe +or where it was possible to be made, or by what workeman.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The right side whereof, helde this History. <i>An honourable woman with +childe, vnto whome Jupiter shewed himselfe (as he was wont With Iuno) in +thunder and lightning: insomuch, as shee fell all to ashes, out of the +which was taken vp a younge infant.</i></p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the other side, I behelde <i>Iupiter</i>, hauing the saide Infant +in his hands, & delyuering him to a yonge man, with winged buskyns, +and a staffe, with two serpents winding about it: who deliuered the +Infant to certaine Nymphes in a Caue, to be fostered.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In the fore-ende, I might see howe <i>Cupid</i> hauing shot vp into +heauen with hys mischeeuous Arrowe, had caused <i>Iupiter</i> to beholde +a mortall Nymph: and a great number of wounded people woondering +at it.</p> + +<!--png 188--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "pagenum">89</span> +<span class = "folionum">Aa</span> +In the hinder end was <i>Iupiter</i> sitting in a tribunall seate as +iudge, and <i>Cupide</i> appeering limping before him, and making +grieuous complaints against his louing mother, bicause that by hir means +he had wounded himselfe extreemly with the loue of a faire damsell, and +that his leg was burnt with a drop of a lampe, presenting also the yoong +Nymph and the lampe in hir hand. And <i>Iupiter</i> with a smiling +countenance speaking to <i>Cupid</i>,</p> + +<p class = "quotation"> +Perfer scintillam qui cœlum accendis & omnes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This <i>Monosticon</i> was grauen in Latine letters in a square table +before the faces of their supreame maiesties, the rest as is +described.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This mysticall triumph was drawen by sixe spotted beasts of yealow +shining colour, and swift as the tygers of <i>Hyrcania</i> called +Leopards, coupled togither with withes of twined vines, full of tender +greene leaues, and stalkes full of greene clusters. This chariot was +drawen very leisurely.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the middle of which plaine there was placed a base of golde by the +lowest diameter, one foote and three handfuls high, the lataster or +lowest verdge round and hollowed, in the middle vnder the vpper sime or +brimme in forme of a pallie with nextrubs, rules and cordicels: the +vpper plaine of this base was euacuated, wherein rested the traines of +the fower eagles standing vpon the plaine, smooth superficies of the +base, which were of precious Ætite of Persia, of the colour of a sakers +plume. And these stood with their shoulders one opposite against +another, and their pounces of gold fastened and sticking in the said +base, euery one surueying with their wings, and the flowering tips of +their sarcellets touching one another. Ouer these as vpon a nest, was +placed this maruellous vessell of Æthiopian Hyacints cleere and bright, +<i>Celso inimicus, Comiti gratiosus</i>. This vessell was crusted with +emeralds and vaines of diuers other pretious stones, a worke incredible. +The height thereof two foote and a halfe, the fashion in maner round, +the breadth by diameter one foote and a halfe, and the circumference +consisted of three diameters. From the heads of the eagles the bottome +or foote of the vessell did ascend vp one triens, and a border going +about the thicknes of a hand, from which border +<!--png 189--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +to the beginning of the belly of the vessel, and to the bottome of the +foote with this hand breadth, was a foote and a halfe. Vpon this stood +the forme of the vessell aforesaid one handfull and a halfe broader, +which halfe handfull was distributed to the border, about the brimme of +foulding leaues and flowers standing out from the hyacinth. The diameter +two quarters & a halfe. Vnder this border there did stick out round +about certaine proportions like walnut shels, or the keele of a ship, +somwhat thicke and broade at the vpper end, and lessing themselues to +nothing belowe. From thence to the orifice it did rise vp two quarters +and a halfe, furrowed with turning champhers, and an excellent sime: and +in steed of eares to take vp the vessell by, it had two lips standing +out and turning in round like the head of a base viall.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vnder and aboue the borders, the vessel was wrought with turned gululs, +vnduls, and imbossings, and with such lineaments were the borders +wrought, both vnder and aboue. Vppon the border in the necke of the +couer, were two halfe rings, suppressed in the border by transuersion, +one of them iust against another, which were holden in the biting teeth +of two Lysarts, or byting Dragons of greene emerauld, bearing out from +the couer. They stoode with their serpentlike feete vpon the lower part +of the couer vnder the necke, betwixt the which and the lower vessell, +was one quantitie, and from his vpper gracilament descending, he ioyned +with the turned in sime of the circumferent lymbus or verdge, where they +did closely byte togither. This couer to the necke was made in skalie +work of <i>Hyacinth</i>, except the vaynes of smaragd, for the little +dragons, their bellies and feetes fastening to the skalie couer. These +little dragons one against an other, their brests and throtes hollowing +out from the border and the couer, and their tayles turning vpwards +againe, did serue for the eares of the couer, iust ouer them of the +lower vessell.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The lower turning about, where the couer did close with the vessell +being of two parts, ioyned togither with an excellent foliature, halfe a +foote broad, as if they had bin inseparable.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The bodie of this vessell was all run ouer with a Vine, the +<!--png 190--> +<span class = "pagenum">90</span> +<span class = "folionum">Aa2</span> +stringes and vaines whereof, and small curling twists, were of Topas, +farre better then is founde in the Ilande Ophiadis, the leaues of fine +smaragd, and the braunches of Amethist, to the sight most beautifull, +and to the vnderstanding woonderfull contemplable. The subiect vessell +appearing thorough the same of Hiacinth so round and polished, as any +wheele can send foorth: except, vnder the leaues there was a substaunce +left, which helde the foliature to the vessell of Hiacinth, passing ouer +and separated from the subiect. The hollowed and bending leaues with all +the other lapicidariall lineaments, were performed with such an +emulation of nature as was woonderfull.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Let vs nowe returne to the circumferent brim of the pretious vessell. In +the smooth partes whereof, vppon eyther sides of the tayles of the +Lysarts, I behelde two hystorials woorthy of regard, ingrauen in this +sort. Vpon the foreside of the vessell, the representation of +<i>Iupiter</i>, holding in his right hande a glistering sword, of the +vayne of the Æthiopian Chrysolits: and in the other hande a thunder bolt +of shining Rubie. His countenance sauour of the vaine of Gallatits, and +crowned with stars like lightening, he stoode vpon an aultar of Saphyre. +Before his fearefull maiestie, were a beuie of Nymphs, seauen in number, +apparrelled in white, proffering with their sweete voices to sing, and +after transforming themselues into greene trees like emeralds full of +azure flowers, and bowing themselues downe with deuotion to his power: +Not that they were all transformed into leaues, but the first into a +tree, hir feete to rootes, their armes and heads into braunches, some +more then other, but in a shewe that they must followe all alike, as +appeared by their heads.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the other Anaglyph, I did behold a merrie and pleasant maiesticall +personage, like a yoong fat boye, crowned with two folding serpents, one +white, and the other blacke, tied into a knot. Hee rested delightfullie +vnder a plentifull vine tree full of ripe grapes, and vpon the top of +the frame there were little naked boies, climing vp and sitting aloft +gathering the ripe clusters: others offering them in a basket to the +God, who pleasantly receiued them: other some lay fast a sleepe vpon the +ground, being drunke with the sweet iuice +<!--png 191--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +of the grape. Others applying themselues to the worke of mustulent +autumne: others singing and piping: all which expression was perfected +by the workman in pretious stones, of such colour as the naturall +liuelinesse of euery vaine, leafe, flower, berrie, body, proportion, +shape, and representation required. And in this imagerie, although it +was very small, yet there was no defect to be found in the least part +belonging thereunto, but perfectly to be discerned.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Out of this former described vessell did spring vp a greene flourishing +vine, the twisting branches thereof full set with clusters of grapes, +the tawny berries of Indian Amethyst, and the leaues of greene Silenitis +of Persia: Not subiect to the change of the moone, delighted of +<i>Cupid</i>. This tree shadowed the chariot: At euery corner of this +triumphant chariot vpon the plaine where the vessell stood, was placed a +candlesticke, of excellent workmanship, vpon three feet of red corrall, +well liked of the ruder sort, resisting lightening and tempests, +fauourable and preseruatiue to the bearer: The like were not found vnder +the head of <i>Gorgon</i> of Persia, nor in the Ocean <i>Erythreum</i>. +The steale of one of the candlesticks was of white corrall, beloued of +<i>Diana</i>, of a conuenient length, with round knobs and ioints, in +height two foote. Another was of most fine stone <i>Dionisias</i>, +hauing spots growing from a blackish to a pure red, the same pounded +smelleth sweetly. The third was of perfect <i>Medea</i> of the colour of +darke gold, and hauing the smell of Nectar. The fourth of pretious +<i>Nebritis</i> from a blacke growing to a white and greene. Out of the +hollowed steales whereof, there ascended vp a pyramidall flame of +euerlasting fire, continually burning. The brightnes of the works +expressed through the reflexion of the lights, and the sparkling of the +pretious stones were such, as my eies dazeled to behold them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +About which heauenly triumph, with a maruellous and solemne pompe, +infinite troups of Nymphs, their faire and plentifull tresses falling +loose ouer their shoulders, some naked with aprons of goates skins and +kids, others with tymbrels and flutes, making a most pleasaunt noise, as +in the daunce called Thiasus, in the trieterie of <i>Bacchus</i>, with +green leaffie sprigs and vine branches, instrophyated about their +<!--png 192--> +<span class = "pagenum">91</span> +heads and wasts, leaping and dauncing before the triumphs: immediately +after the triumphs followed an olde man vpon an asse, and after him was +led a goate adorned for a sacrifice: And one that followed after +carrieng vpon hir head a fanne, making an vnmeasurable laughter, and +vsing furious and outragious gestures. This was the order of these +<i>Mimallons</i>, <i>Satirs</i>, and seruants to Bacchus, bawds, +<i>Tyades</i>, <i>Naiades</i> and such as followed after.</p> + + + + +<p class = "intro"> +The Nymph doth shew to Poliphilus the multitude of yoong Louers, and +their Loues, what they were, and in what sort beloued</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capI_2.jpg" align = "left" +width = "226" height = "219" alt = "I"> +<span class = "hidden">I</span>t is verie hard for a man to accommodate +his speech to apte termes, whereby he may expreslie declare the great +pompe, indesinent triumph, vncessaunt ioie and delightful iettings +aboute these rare and vnseene chariots, and being once vndertaken, it is +as vneasie to leaue off: besides the notable companie of yoong youths, +and the increasing troups of innumerable faire and pleasant Nymphs, more +sharpe witted, wise, modest, and discreet, then is ordinarily seene in +so tender yeeres, with their beardles Louers, scarce hauing downy +cheekes, pleasantly deuising with them matters of Loue. Manie of them +hauing their torches burning, others pastophorall, some with ancient +spoiles vppon the endes of streight staues, and others with diuers sorts +of Trophes vpon launces, curiouslie hanging, caried before the mystical +triumphs, with shouting resounds aboue in the aire. Some with +winde-instruments of diuers fashions and maner of windings, sagbuts and +flutes. Others with heauenly voices singing with ineffable delights, and +exceeding solace, past mans reason to imagine: within them passed about +the glorious triumphs, turning vpon the florulent ground, and green +<!--png 193--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +swoord, a place dedicated to the happie, without anie stub or tree, but +the fielde was as a plaine coequate medowe of sweete hearbes and +pleasaunt flowers, of all sorts of colours, and sundry varieng fashions, +yeelding so fragrant a smell as is possible to speake of, not burnt with +the extreeme heat of the sunne, but moderate, the ground moystened with +sweete ryuers, the aire pure and cleane, the daies all alike, the earth +continually greene, the spring neuer decaieng but renuing, the coole +grasse with variable flowers like a painting, remaining alwaies vnhurt, +with their deawie freshnesse, reseruing and holding their colours +without interdict of time. There grewe the fower sortes of Violets, <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "so in original">Cowslops</ins>, Melilots, Rose +Parsley or Passeflower, Blew bottles, Gyth, Ladies seale, Vatrachium, +Aquilegia, Lillie conually, Amaranth, Flower gentle, Ideosmus, all sorts +of sweete pinks, and small flowring hearbs of odoriferous fragrancie and +smell, Roses of Persia, hauing the smel of muske and Amber, and +innumerable sorts of others without setting, but naturally growing in a +woonderfull distribution, peeping out from their greene leaues, and +barbs very delightfull to behold.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In this place I might see goodly braue women as the Archadian +<i>Calisto</i> the daughter of <i>Lycaon</i>, with the vnknowen +<i>Diana</i>. The Lesbian <i>Antiopa</i> daughter to <i>Nycteus</i>, and +mother to <i>Amphion</i> and <i>Zeteus</i> that built Thebes, with hir +satyre. <i>Issa</i> the daughter of <i>Machareus</i> with hir shepheard. +<i>Antichia</i> the daughter of <i>Aecus</i> and yoong <i>Danaë</i>. +<i>Asterie</i> the daughter to <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in +original"><i>Cæus</i></ins>, and <i>Alchmena</i> with hir fained +husband. Afterward I beheld the pleasant <i>Ægina</i> solacing hir selfe +with the cleere flood and diuine fire. The daughter of <i>Fullus</i> and +that of <i>Menemphus</i>, with hir counterfeit father, and that other of +<i>Diodes</i> with hir lap full of flowers and a writhing serpent, and +the faire yoong gyrle no more sorrowing for the growing of hir hornes. +<i>Astiochia</i> and <i>Antigone</i> the daughter of <i>Laomedon</i> +solaciously delighting hir selfe in hir storkish plumes, and +<i>Lurisile</i> the first inuentrix of wheeles. <i>Garamantide</i> the +dauncing Nymph holding by hir little finger, and washing hir delicate +pretie feete from sweate in the riuer Bagrada. After that I beheld a +quaile flying, and a faulcon pursuing hir: <i>Erigone</i> hauing hir +faire shining brest stickt full of sweete +<!--png 194--> +<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "mycorr" +title = "text reads ‘91’">92</ins></span> +grapes, and the daughter of king <i>Chollus</i> with hir bull, +<i>Eriphile</i> and hir changed husband: The daughter of <i>Alpes</i> +and the virgin <i>Melantho</i> with hir dolphin, <i>Phyllira</i> the +daughter of old <i>Oceanus</i> with the father of <i>Chiron</i>. Next +hir <i>Ceres</i> with hir head instrophyated with ripe eares of corne +imbracing the scalie <i>Hydra</i>: And the faire Nymph <i>Lara</i> <ins +class = "mycorr" title = "so in original: ‘sporting’?">sorting</ins> +with <i>Argiphon</i>: and the sweete <i>Futurna</i> of the riuer +<i>Numicus</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And whilest I stood with excessiue delight beholding onely as an +ignorant this rare companie and mysticall triumphes, circumsept with +these and such like sorts, and so also the delicious fields, but that me +thought it was a louely sight to behold, and so I should haue continued: +then the gratious Nymph associating and leading me, seeing my +simplicitie and carelesnes, with a ready countenance and sweete and +pleasant words, without asking, she said thus vnto me: My +<i>Poliphilus</i>, doest thou see these? (shewing me those of the olde +world) these were beloued of <i>Iupiter</i>, and this, and this was such +a one, and these were in loue with him, by this meanes shewing vnto me +their high and mighty linage, and not knowing their names, she in great +curtesie told me. Afterward she shewed me a great number of little +virgins, vnder the gouernment of three sober and discreete matrones the +leaders to so great delight: Adding thereunto very pleasantly (changing +hir angellike countenance) My <i>Poliphilus</i>, thou shalt vnderstand, +that no earthly creature can enter in heere without a burning torch as +thou seest me, either with extreeme loue and great paines, or for the +fauour and company of those three matrones. And from hir hart setting a +deepe sigh, she said: This torch haue I brought hither for thy sake, +minding to put it out in yonder temple.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +These speeches pearced my hart, they were so delightfull and desired, +and so much the more, bicause she called me hir <i>Poliphilus</i>. +Whereupon I assured my selfe, that she was <i>Polia</i>, and from top to +the toe I found an extreeme alteration into a supreame delight, my hart +flying onely to hir. Which thoughts were bewraied by my countenance, and +whispering small sighes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Which she cunningly perceiuing, brake on this new accident with these +words: Oh how many be there which would +<!--png 195--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +most gladly behold these triumphes, and therefore <i>Poliphilus</i>, +addresse thy thoughts to other matters, and behold what noble and +woorthy Nymphs shew themselues deseruedly consorted with their amorous +louers, curteous and affable: who with sweete and pleasant notes in +measured verse, praise and commend one another without wearines, +incessantly celebrating their turnes with excessiue delight, and +extolling the triumphs, the aire also full of the chirpings of diuers +pretie birds, yeelding a diffused charme.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +This verse consisted of <i>Strophe</i>, <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"so in original: Antistrophe?"><i>Aristophe</i></ins>, +and <i>Epodus</i>.</span> +About the first triumph among the reioising companie, the nine Muses did +sing, with their leader the diuine Luter <i>Apollo</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian <i>Leria</i>, with a +lawrell crowne, accompanied with <i>Melanthia</i>, whose habites and +voices represented the pride of Greece, +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +<i>Homer.</i></span> +<!----> +whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, +communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more +excellent both in voice and song.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There the faire Nymph shewed me the auncient <i>Iphianassa</i>, and +after the old father <i>Himerinus</i> his daughters and their drinke, +and one betwixt the two Theban brothers: These with pleasant noises, +sweete musicke and fine agilities, paste on about the first triumph.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +About the second triumph was the noble <i>Nemesis</i> with the +<i>Lesbian Corina</i>, <i>Delia</i> and <i>Neæra</i>, with diuers others +amorous Nymphs, making pleasaunt soundes vppon stringed instruments of +yealow wood.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +About the thirde triumph, the glorious Nymphs shewed me <i>Quintilia</i> +and <i>Cynthea Nauta</i>, with others, in great solace, making sweete +harmonies, and singing pleasant verses: there also I behelde the virgin +<i>Violantilla</i> with hir Doue, and the other sorrowing for hir +Sparrow.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +About the fourth triumph, before it went the <i>Lidian Cloe</i>, +<i>Lide</i>, <i>Neobole</i>, sweete <i>Phillis</i>, and the faire +<i>Lyce</i> <i>Tyburts</i> & <i>Pyra</i>, with their harps singing +and making a most pleasant noyse. After this fourth triumph among the +Mænades and sacrificers to <i>Bacchus</i>, there folowed an amorous +damosell singing in the commendation of the head of hir louer +<i>Plaon</i>, she desired hornes. And after them all she shewed me two +women, +<!--png 196--> +<span class = "pagenum">93</span> +<span class = "folionum">Bb</span> +one of them apparelled in white, and the other in greene, which came +hindermost singing togither.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus they marched about in a most pleasant and delightfull maner +vpon the fresh greene and flourishing plaine: Some instrophiated with +laurel, some with myrtle, and others with other sorts of flowers and +garlands, incessantly without any wearines or intermission in a +perfection of the felicitie of this world, mutually enioying one +anothers aspect and companie.</p> + + + + +<p class = "intro"> +The Nymph hauing at large declared vnto Poliphilus the mysticall +triumphs and extreeme loue, afterwards she desired him to go on +further, where also with great delight he beheld innumerable other +Nymphs, with their desired louers, in a thousand sorts of pleasures +solacing themselues vpon the greene grasse, fresh shadowes, and by +the coole riuers and cleere fountaines. And how Poliphilus there +had with madnes almost forgotten himselfe in the passions of desire, +but hope did asswage his furie, quieting himselfe in the beholding of +the sweete sauour of the faire Nymph.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capN.jpg" align = "left" +width = "225" height = "219" alt = "N"> +<span class = "hidden">N</span>ot onely happie but aboue all other most +happie were he, to whom it should be granted continually by speciall +fauour to beholde the glorious pompe, high triumphs, beautiful places, +sweet scituations, togither with the goddesses, halfe goddesses, faire +Nymphes of incredible delight and pleasure, but especially to be +seconded and accompanied with so honorable a Nymph of so rare and +excellent beautie. And this I thought not to be the least and smallest +point of my felicitie. Now hauing looked vpon these sights, I remained a +great space recording of the same, being therewith beyonde measure +abundantly contented.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Afterwards, the faire and sweet damsell my guide said thus vnto me: +<i>Poliphilus</i>, let vs now go on a little further. And then +<!--png 197--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +immediately we tended our walke toward the fresh fountains and shady +riuers, compassing about the flourshing fields with chrystalline +currents and gratious streames.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In which cleare water, grew the purple flowering sonne of the Nymph +<i>Liriope</i>, looking vp from his tender stringes and leaues. And al +the faire riuers were ful of other flowers sweetlie growing among their +greene and fresh leaues. This delightfull place was of a spatious and +large circuit, compassed about and inuironed with wooddie mountaines, of +a moderate height of greene lawrell, fruitefull memerels, hearie & +high pine trees, and within the cleere channels, with graueled banks, +and in some places the bottom was faire soft yealow sande, where the +water ran swifte, and the three leaued driope grew.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +There were a great companie of delicate faire Nymphs of tender age, with +a redolent flower of bashfulnes, and beyond all credite beautifull, with +their beardles louers continuallie accompanied. Among which Nymphs, some +verie pleasantly with wanton countenaunces in the cleere streams shewed +themselues sportefull and gamesome, hauing taken vppe finelie their thin +garments of silke of diuers colours, and holding them in the bouts of +their white armes, the forme of their rounde thighs were seene vnder the +plytes, and their faire legges were reuealed to the naked knees, the +current streames comming vp so high: it was a sight which woulde haue +prepared one to that which were vnfit, and if himselfe had been vnable +thereunto. And there where the water was most still, turning downe their +faire faces of exceeding beautie, and bending their bodies of rare +proportion, as in a large goodly glasse they might behould their +heauenly shapes, breaking off the same with the motion of their pretie +feete, making a noyse with the contrast of the circulating water. Some +solaciouslie striuing to go by the tame swimming swans, and sportingly +casting water one at another, with the hollownes of their palms: others +standing without the water vpon the soft coole grasse, making vp of +nosegaies and garlands of sundrie sweete flowers, & giuing the same +to their louers as tokens of their fauorable remembraunce, not denieng +their sweet kisses, & louing +<!--png 198--> +<span class = "pagenum">94</span> +<span class = "folionum">Bb2</span> +imbracings, with the amorous regardes of their star-like eyes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And some were set vpon the greene banks not ouergrown with reed and +segs, but finely beautified with sweete hearbs and flowers, among the +which the tender Nymphs comming wet out of the water more cleere then +<i>Axius</i> in <i>Mygdonia</i>, vnder the vmbragious trees, did sit +sporting and deuising one with another in delightfull imbracings, with +their reuerencing louers, not cruelly scorning & reiecting them, but +with a sociable loue and benigne affablenesse, disposing themselues to +the like shew of true affection, their sweete gestures and pleasant +behauiours far more gratious to the eie, then flowing teares be to the +frowarde and vnmercifull <i>Cupid</i>, the sweete fountaines and moist +dewes to the green fieldes, and desired forme to vnfashioned matter.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Some did sing amorous sonnets, and verses of loue, breathing out in the +same from their inflamed breasts, scalding sighs ful of sweete accents, +able to enamorate harts of stone: And to make smooth the ruggednesse of +the vnpassageable mountaine <i>Caucasus</i>, to staie whatsoeuer furie +the harpe of <i>Orpheus</i> woulde prouoke, and the fowle and euill +fauoured face of <i>Medusa</i>, to make any horrible monster tame and +tractable, and to stop the continuall prouocation of the deuouring +<i>Scylla</i>. Some rested their heads in the chaste laps of their faire +loues, recounting the pleasaunt deuises of <i>Iupiter</i>, and they +instrophyating their curled locks with sweete smelling flowers.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Others of them fained that they were forsaken, and seemed to flie and go +awaie from them, whom dearely they did affect, and then was there +running one after another with loud laughters, and effeminate criengs +out, their faire tresses spredding downe ouer their snowie shoulders +like threeds of gold, bound in laces of greene silke: Some loose after a +Nymphish maner, others bounde vp in attyres of golde set with pearle. +Afterwards comming neere togither, they would stowpe downe, and twiching +vp the sweete flowers with their faire and tender fingers, fling the +same in the faces of their pursuing louers with great pleasure and +solace, maintaining their fained disgracings.</p> + +<!--png 199--> +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +Others with great curtesie were putting of Rose leaues one after another +into their laced brests, adding after them sweete kisses, some giuing +their louers (if ouer-bold) vpon the cheekes with their harmles palmes +pretie ticks, making them red like the wheeles of <i>Phœbus</i> in a +faire and cleere morning: with other new and vnthought contentions, such +as loue could deuise. They all being pleasant, merrie, and disposed to +delight: Their gestures and motions girlish, and of a virgineall +simplicitie, putting on sincere loue without the offence of honorable +vertue: Free and exempt from the occursion of griefe or emulation of +aduers fortune: Sitting vnder the shade of the weeping sister of the +whited <i>Phaeton</i>, and of the immortall <i>Daphne</i> and hairie +pineapple with small and sharpe leaues, streight Cyprus, greene Orenge +trees, and tall Cedars, and others most excellent, abounding with greene +leaues, sweete flowers, and pleasant fruits still flourishing in such +sort as is inestimable, euenly disposed vpon the gratious banks, & +orderly growing in a moderat distance vpon thee grassie ground, inuested +with green Vinca peruince or laurel. What hart is so cold and chilling, +that would not be stirred vp to heate, manifestly beholding the +delightfull duties of reciprocall loue, such as I was perswaded would +haue kindled <i>Diana</i> hir selfe?</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Whereupon I was bold to shew that folly which tormented my inward +spirits, enuying to see what others possessed, that was a continuall +delight in pleasure and solace without any wearines in full cloying, and +thus diuers times my hart being set on fire by my eies, and extreemely +burning, my minde still fixed vpon delightfull pleasures and their +smacking kisses, and regarding with a curious eie the abounding guerdons +of the fethered god, me thought at that instant, that I did behold the +extreeme perfection of pleasure. And by this meanes I stood wauering and +out of measure amazed, and as one which had droonke an amorous potion, +calling into remembrance the ointments of the mischeeuous <i>Circes</i>, +the forcible hearbs of <i>Medea</i>, the hurtfull songs of +<i>Byrrena</i>, and the deadly verses of <i>Pamphile</i>, I stood +doubtfull that my eies had seene somthing more than humane, and that a +base, dishonorable, and frail bodie should not be where immortall +<!--png 200--> +<span class = "pagenum">95</span> +creatures did abide.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +After that I was brought from these long and doubtfull thoughts and +phantasticall imaginations, and remembring all those maruellous diuine +shapes and bodies which I had personally seene with mine eies, I then +knew that they were not deceitfull shadowes, nor magicall illusions, but +that I had not rightly conceiued of them.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And now with earnest consideration among these beholding the most +excellent Nymph fast by me, my eies filled with amorous darts ceased not +to wound my passionate hart, by means wherof incontinently all my +wandering thoughts were stirred vp, compact, and fixed vpon hir their +desired obiect, recalling my mortified soule afresh to be tormented in +his first flames, which most cruelly I suffered, in that I durst not be +bold to aske if she were my desired <i>Polia</i>, for she had put me in +some doubt thereof before, and now fearing to offend hir with my being +ouer bolde, and ore troublesome with my rude and vntilled toong, diuers +times when my voice was breaking out betwixt my lips, vpon that occasion +I suppressed the same. But what she should be, it was beyond my compasse +to imagine, and I stood as suspicious thereof, as the deceiued +<i>Socia</i> with the fained <i>Atlantiades</i>. Thus with diligent +regards and cordiall searches examining hir heauenly features inuaded +with a burning desire beyond measure, I said to my self: Oh that I might +be, if it were possible, a free mã in such a place, for no sorrow +shoulde greeue me, nor imminent danger should make me afraid: although +that frowarde fortune shoulde oppose hir selfe against me, I woulde +spende my life without any regard therof, not refusing to vndertake the +laborsome and great enterprise of the two gates shewed to the sonne of +<i>Amphitrio</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +To spend the prime of my youth and pleasure of my yeers in the mortall +daungers of the merciles seas, and in the fearfull places of +<i>Trinacria</i>, with the excessiue trauels and terrors of +<i>Ulysses</i>, in the darke caue of the horrible <i>Polyphem</i>, the +son of <i>Neptune</i>, to be transformed in the companie of +<i>Calypso</i>, although I lost my life, or indured the most hard & +long seruitude of <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in +original"><i>Androdus</i></ins>, for all wearines is forgotten where +loue is vehement. To vndertake with the amorous <i>Minalion</i> and +<!--png 201--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +<i>Ileus</i> to runne with <i>Atalanta</i>, or to com but in such sort +as the strong and mightie <i>Hercules</i> for his loue <i>Deianira</i>, +did with the huge <i>Achelous</i>, so as I might atchieue so gratious a +fauor, and attaine to so high delight, as the remaining in these +solacious places, and aboue all to enioy the precious loue and +inestimable good wil of hir, more faire without comparison, then +<i>Cassiopeia</i>, of better fauour then <i>Castiamira</i>. Ah me, my +life and death is in hir power! And if so be that I seeme vnwoorthie of +hir fellowshippe and amorous commers, yet would God it might be granted +me as a speciall rewarde and priuiledge to looke vpon hir: and then I +saide to my selfe, oh <i>Poliphilus</i>, if these heauie and burthenous +weights of amarous conceits do oppresse thee; the sweetenes of the +fruite doth allure thee thereunto: and if the peremptorie dangers strike +thee into a terror, the hope of the supportation and helpe of so faire a +Nymph will animate thee to be resolute. Thus my thought being diuers, I +said, Oh God, if this be that desired <i>Polia</i> which I see at this +present, and whose precious impression without intermission, I haue stil +born in my burning and wounded hart, fro the first yeers of my loue +vntil this present, I am contented with all sorrows, & besides hir, +I desire no other request but only this, that she may be drawne to my +feruent loue, that it may be with vs alike, or that I may be at liberty, +for I am no longer able to dissemble my griefe, or hide the extremity of +my smart, I die liuing, & liuing am as dead: I delight in that which +is my griefe: I go mourning: I consume my self in the flame, & yet +the flame doth norish me, & burning like gold in the strong cement, +yet I find my self like cold yce. Ah wo is me, that loue should be more +greeuous vnto me then the weight of <i>Iuarime</i> to <i>Typhon</i>. It +disperseth me more, then the rauenous vulturs the glomerated bowels of +<i>Tityus</i>: It holdeth me in more, then the labirinth crooking: It +tosseth me more, then the northeast winds the calme seas: It teareth me +woorse then <i>Acteons</i> dogges their flieng master: It troubleth my +spirits more then horrible death doth them who desire to liue: It is +more direfull to my vexed hart, then the crocodils bowels to +<i>Ichneumon</i>. And so much the more is my greefe, that with all the +wit I haue, I knowe not to thinke in what part of the worlde I shoulde +be, but streight before the +<!--png 202--> +<span class = "pagenum">96</span> +sweete fire of this halfe goddesse, which without any corporall +substance consumeth me: hir aboundant and faire yealow haire, a snare +and net for my hart to be masked in: hir large and phlegmatique +forehead, like white lillies, bynd me in as with a withe: hir pearcing +regards take away my life as sweete prouocations to afflict me: hir +roseall cheekes do exasperate my desire, hir ruddie lips continue the +same, and hir delicious breasts like the winter snow vpon the +hyperboreall mountaines, are the sharp spurs and byting whip to my +amorous passions: hir louely gestures and pleasant countenance do draw +my desire to an imaginatiue delight, heaping vp my sorrow. And to all +these insulting martyrdoms and greeuous vexations of that impious and +deceitfull <i>Cupid</i> I laie open, mightilie striuing to beare them, +and no waie able to resist them, but to suffer my selfe to be ouercome: +neither coulde I shun the same, but remained still as one vnawares lost +in the Babylonian fen.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Oh <i>Titius</i>, thou canst not perswade me that thy paine is equall +with mine, although that the vultures teare open thy breast, and taking +out thy smoking warm hart, do pluck it in peeces with their crooked +beaks, and pinch the same in their sharpe tallents, eating vp also the +rest of thy flesh, vntill they haue ingorged thẽselues, & within a +while after thou renewed againe, they begin afresh to pray vpon thee. +Thou hast a time to be reuiued againe, and made sound as euer thou wert: +but two eies without all pitie or intermission haue wounded me, deuour +and consume me, leauing me no time of rest, or space to be +comforted.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And hauing had these discourses with my selfe, I began secretly to +mourne and weepe, and desire a way that I might die, fetching deepe +sighes as if my hart had torne in sunder with euery one of them. And +diuers times I had purposed with a lamentable voice to desire hir helpe, +for that I was at the point of death: but as one drowned and +ouerwhelmed, I deemed that way to be vaine, and to no purpose, and +therfore furiously, and as one of a raging spirit I thought thus: Why +doest thou doubt, <i>Poliphilus</i>? Death for loue is laudable, and +therefore my greeuous and malignant fortune, my sorrowful accident and +hard hap in the loue of so beautifuil a Nymph, +<!--png 203--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +will be writ and reported when I shall lie interred. The same will be +sung in doleful tunes vpon sweete instruments of musicke, manifesting +the force of hurtfull loue.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And thus continuing the follie of my thoughts, I said: It may be that +this Nymph, by al likelihoods, is some reuerend goddesse, and therefore +my speeches will be but as the crackling reedes of Archadia in the moist +and fennie sides of the riuer Labdone, shaken with the sharpe east wind, +with the boisterous north, cloudy south & rainie south west wind. +Besides this, the gods will be seuere reuengers of such an insolencie, +for the companions of <i>Vlysses</i> had been preserued from drowning +and shipwracke, if they had not stolne <i>Apollos</i> cattell kept by +<i>Phaetusa</i> and hir sister <i>Lampetia</i>. <i>Orion</i> had not +beene slaine by a scorpion, if he had not attempted the cold & chast +<i>Diana</i>, and therefore if I should vse any indecencie against the +honor of this Nymph in any sort, such like reuenge or woorse woulde be +vsed vpon me. At last getting foorth of these changeable thoughts, I did +greatly comfort my selfe in beholding and contemplating the excellent +proportion and sweete sauour of this ingenuous and most rare Nymph, +containing in hir al whatsoeuer that may prouoke amorous conceits and +sweete loue, giuing from hir faire eies so gratious and fauorable +regards, as thereby I somewhat tempered my troublesome and vnbrideled +thoughts. And my resounding sighes reflexed with a flattering hope (oh +the amorous foode of louers and sauce of salt teares) by these and no +other rains I did manage my vehement thoughts, and made them stop in a +conceiued hope, fixing mine eies with excessiue delight vpon hir faire +bodie and well disposed members, by all which, my discontented desires +were gently mitigated and redeemed from that furie and amorous fire, +which so neere had bred the extremitie of my passions.</p> + + + + +<!--png 204--> +<span class = "pagenum">97</span> +<span class = "folionum">Cc</span> +<p class = "intro"> +The Nymph leadeth the inamored Poliphilus to other pleasant places, +where he beheld innumerable Nymphs solacing them, and also the triumph +of Vertumnus and Pomona.</p> + + +<p class = "main"> +<img src = "images/capB.jpg" align = "left" +width = "226" height = "220" alt = "B"> +<span class = "hidden">B</span>y +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +<i>Larix</i>, is a tree hauing leaues like a pine, & good for +building, it will neither rot, woormeate, nor burne to coales.<br> +<i>Teda</i>, is a tree out of the which issueth a liquor more thinne +than pitch.<br> +<i>Oreades</i>, be countrie Nymphs.<br> +<i>Lyndens</i> or teile trees, in Latin <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"reading unclear"><i>Tiliæ</i></ins>, they beare a fruit as big as a +bean, hauing within seedes like anyse seeds.</span> +<!----> +no meanes I was able to resist the violent force of <i>Cupids</i> +artillerie, and therefore the elegant Nymph hauing amorously gotten an +irrevocable dominion ouer me a miserable louer, I was inforced to follow +still after hir moderate steps, which led me into a spatious and large +plaine, the conterminate bound of the flowered greene & sweet +smelling vallie, where also ended the adorned mountaines and fruitfull +hils, shutting vp the entrance into this golden countrie, full of +incredible delight with their ioining togither: couered ouer with green +trees of a cõspicuous thicknes & distance, as if they had been set +by hand, as Yew trees, wild Pynes, vnfruitfull but dropping Resin, tall +pineapple, straight Firre, burning Pitch trees, the spungie Larix, +the aierie Teda beloued of the mountains, celebrated and preserued for +the festiuall Oreades. There both of vs walked in the greene and +flowering plaine, shee being my guide through the high cypres trees, the +broad leaued beech, coole shadie okes full of maste, and other +hornebeames, pricking iuniper, weake hasell, spalt ash, greene lawrell, +and humbryferous esculies, knottie plane trees & lyndens moouing by +the sweet breath of the pleasant Zephirus, whistling through their +tender branches, with a benigne and fauorable impulsion.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +All which greene trees were not thickly twisted togither, but of a +conuenient distaunce one from another, and all of them so aptly +distributed as to the eie the sight thereof bred great delight.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +<i>Dryades</i>, be Nymphs of the woods.</span> +This place was frequented with countrie Nymphs and <i>Dryades</i>, their +small and slender wastes being girded with a brayding of tender corules +of sprigs, leaues, and flowers and vpon +<!--png 205--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +their heads their rising vp haires, were compassed about as with +garlands. Amongst them were the horned faunes, and lasciuious satyres, +solemnising their faunall feasts, being assembled togither out of diuers +places, within this fertile & pleasant cuntrie: bearing in their +hands so tender green and strãge boughs, as are not to be foũd in the +wood of the goddes +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +<i>Feronia</i> a goddesse of the woods.<br> +<i>Dabulam</i>, a fertile place in Arabia.<br> +<i>Scænits</i>, be a people in Arabia, that dwell altogither in +tents.<br> +<i>Sauromatans</i>, be people of Sarmatia, which is a large cuntry, +reaching <ins class = "mycorr" title = "letter ‘r’ invisible">frõ</ins> +Germany & the riuer Vistula to Hycænia, and is deuided into two +parts Europea and Asiatica.</span> +<!----> +<i>Feronia</i>, when the inhabitants carrie hir image to the fire.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +From thence we entered into a large square inclosure cõpassed about with +broade walkes, straight from one corner to another, with a quick-set +vpon either sides, in height one pace, of pricking iuniper thicke set +togither, and mixt with box, compassing about the square greene mead. In +the rowes of which quick-set there were symmetrially planted the +victorious palme trees, whose branches were laden with fruite, appearing +out of their husks, some blacke, some crymosen, and many yealow, the +like are not to be found in the land of Ægypt, nor in Dabulam among the +Arabian Scænits, or in Hieraconta beyond the Sauromatans. All which were +intermedled with greene Cytrons, Orenges, Hippomelides, Pistack trees, +Pomegranats, Meligotõs, Dendromirts, Mespils, and Sorbis, with diuers +other fruitfull trees.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +In this place vppon the greene swoord of the flowering mead, and vnder +the fresh and coole shadowes, I might behold a great assemblie met +togither of strange people, & such as I had neuer before seene, full +of ioyes and pastimes, but basely apparrelled, some in fauns skins, +painted with white spots, some in lynx skins, +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +<i>Lynx</i> is a beast spotted, but in shape like a wolph, being quicke +of sight.<br> +<i>Hamadryades</i> were nymphs of the wood and <i>Symenides</i><br> +<i>Vertumnus</i> the God of fruits.<a class = "tag" name = +"endtag27" href = "#endnote27">27</a><br> +<i>Clepsydra</i> is sometime taken for a diall measuring time by the +running of water, but here for a pot to water a garden and yoong +sectlings in a nourcery for an orchyard.</span> +<!----> +others in leopards: and manie had fastened togither diuers broad leaues, +instrophiating them with sundrie flowers, therewithall couering their +nakednes, singing, leaping, and dauncing with great applause.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +These were the Nymphs Hamadryades, pleasantly compassing vppon either +sides the flowered <i>Vertumnus</i>, hauing vppon his heade a garlande +of roses, and his gowne lap full of faire flowers, louing the station of +the woollie ramme. He sate in an ancient fashioned carre, drawne by +fower horned fauns or satyrs, with his louing and faire wife +<i>Pomona</i>, crowned with delicate fruits, hir haire hanging downe +ouer hir shoulders, of a flaxen colour, and thus she sate participating +of hir husbands pleasure and quiet, and at hir feete laie +<!--png 206--> +<span class = "pagenum">98</span> +<span class = "folionum">Cc2</span> +a vessell called Clepsydra. In hir right hand she held a copie full of +flowers, fruits, and greene leaues, and in hir left hande a branch of +flowers, fruits and leaues.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Before the carre and the fower drawing satyrs, there marched two faire +Nymphs, the one of them bare a trophæ with a præpendant table, whereupon +was written this title,</p> + +<p class = "quotation"> +Integerrimam corporis valetudinem & stabile robur castasque mensarum +delitias, & beatam animi securitatem cultoribus me offero.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And the other bare a trophæ of certaine greene sprigges bound togither, +and among them diuers rurall instruments fastened. These passed on thus +after the ancient maner, with great ceremonies, and much solemnitie, +compassing about a great square stone like <ins class = "mycorr" title = +"text reads ‘and’">an</ins> aulter, standing in the middest of this +faire mead, sufficiently moystened with current streames from beautifull +fountaines.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +This square stone or aulter was of pure white marble, curiouslie cut by +a cunning lapicidarie, vpon euery front wherof was a woonderfull goodly +expression, of an elegant image, so exact, as the like else-where is +hardly to be found.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The first was a faire goddesse, hir treces flieng abroad, girded with +roses and other flowers, vpon a thin vpper garment couering hir +beautifull and pleasant proportion. She helde hir right hand ouer an +ancient vessell, in maner of a chafing-dish, called Chytropodus, sending +foorth a flame of fire, into the which shee did cast roses and flowers, +and in the other hand she held a branch of sweete myrtle, full of +berries. By hir side stoode a little winged boy smiling, with his bowe +and arrowes. Ouer hir head were two pigeons. And vnder the foote of this +figure was written</p> + +<p class = "quotation"> +Florido veri S.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the other side I beheld in an excellent caruing, the representation +of a damosell of a maidenly countenaunce, whose stately maiestie gaue +great commendation to the curious deuise of the workeman. She was +crowned with a garland +<!--png 207--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +of wheat eares, hir haire flingering abroade, and hir habyte Nymphish. +In hir right hand she held a copie full of rype graine, and in the other +hand three eares of corne, vpon their strawie stalks. At hir feete lay a +wheat sheaue bound vp, and a little boy with gleanings of corne in +either hands. The subscription was this.</p> + +<p class = "quotation"> +Flauæ Messi S.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Vpon the third side was the likenes in a deuine aspect naked of a yoong +boy, crowned with vine leaues, and of a wanton countenance, holding in +his left hand certaine clusters of ripe grapes, and in the other, a +copie full of grapes which did hang ouer the mouth thereof. At his feete +laie a hayrie goate and this writing vnder.</p> + +<p class = "quotation"> +Mustulento Autumno S.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The last square did beare vpon it a kingly image passing well cut, his +countenance displeasant and austere, in his left hand he held a scepter +vp into the heauens, the aire cloudie, troublesome and stormie, and with +the other hand reaching into the clouds full of haile<ins class = +"mycorr" title = "punctuation invisible">. </ins>Behinde him also the +aire was rainie and tempestuous. He was couered with beasts skins, and +vpon his feete he ware sandals, where vnder was written,</p> + +<p class = "quotation"> +Hiemi Æoliæ S.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +From thence the most faire and pleasant Nymph brought me towards the sea +side and sandie shore, where we came to an olde decaied temple, before +the which vpon the fresh and coole hearbs, vnder sweete shadie trees we +sate downe and rested ourselues, my eies very narrowly beholding, with +an vnsatiable desire, in one sole perfection and virgineall bodie, the +accumulation and assembly of all beauties; an obiect interdicting my +eies to behold any gracious, that except, or of so great content.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Where refreshing in a secret ioy with new budding conceits my burning +hart, and leauing off vulgar and common +<!--png 208--> +<span class = "pagenum">99</span> +follies, I began to consider of the intelligible effect of honest loue, +and withall of the cleerenes of the skies, the sweete and milde aire, +the delightfull site, the pleasant countrie, the green grasse decked +with diuersity of flowers, the faire hils adorned with thicke woods, the +quiet time, fresh windes, and fruitfull place, beautifully enriched with +diffluent streames, sliding downe the moist vallies betwixt the crooked +hils in their grauelled channels, and into the next seas with a +continued course softly vnlading themselues.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +<span class = "sidenote"> +<i>Thessalie</i> is a region of Greece, hauing vpon the one side +Macedonia, and on the other Bœotia, reaching betweene Thermopylæ, and +the riuer Pineus, euen to the sea side, it is the gardẽ of +Grecia.</span> +A ground most healthfull, the grasse coole and sweet: and from the trees +resounded the sweete consents of small chirping birds. The flouds and +fields of Thessalie must giue place to this.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And there sitting thus togither among the sweete flowers and redolent +roses, I fastened mine eies vpon this heauenly shape of so faire and +rare a proportion, whereunto my sences were so applied, drawen and +addicted, that my hart was ouerwhelmed with extreeme delights, so as I +remained senceles, and yet cast into a curious desire to vnderstand and +knowe what should be the reason and cause that the purple humiditie in +the touch of hir bodie, in the smoothnes of hir hand should be as white +as pure milke: and by what meanes that nature had bestowed in hir faire +bodie the fragrant sweetnes of Arabia. +<!----> +<span class = "sidenote"> +<i>Heraclea</i>, is the name of diuers faire cities, one in the confines +of Europe, another in Italie & in Pontus by the riuer Licus, also in +Narbon by Rodanus, also in Caria, Crete & Lydia, whereof the +Lodestone taketh his name.<br> +<i>Hesperides</i>, were the 3. daughters of Atlas, Ægle, Aretusa and +Hesperetusa, who had an orchard of goldẽ apples, kept by a dragon whõ +Hercules slew & tooke away the apples.<br> +A sepulcher built by Artemisia in the honor of hir husbande Mausolus +king of <ins class = "mycorr" title = "so in +original">Cania</ins>.</span> +<!----> +And by what industrie in hir starrie forehead pampynulated with threds +of gold aptly disposed, she had infixed the fairest part of the heauens, +or the splendycant Heraclea.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Afterward letting fall mine eies towards hir prety feete, I beheld them +inclosed in red leather cut vpon white, fastened vpon the instep with +buttons of gold in loopes of blew silke. And from thence I returned +vpward my wanton regard to hir straight necke compassed about with a +carkenet of orient pearle, striuing but not able to match with the +whitenes of the sweet skin. From thence descending down to hir shining +breast and delitious bosome, from whence grew two round apples, such as +<i>Hercules</i> neuer stole out of the garden of <i>Hesperides</i>. +Neither did euer <i>Pomona</i> behold the like to these two standing +vnmooueable in hir roseall breast, more white than hils of snowe in the +going downe of the sunne. Betwixt the which there passed downe a +delicious vallie, wherein was the +<!--png 209--> +<span class = "verso">[<i>v</i>]</span> +delicate sepulcher of my wounded hart exceeding the famous +<i>Mausolea</i>.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +I then being content with a wounded hart full well vnderstanding that +mine eies had drawen it dying into all these elegant parts. Yet +neuertheles I could not so bridle and suppresse my amorous inflamed +sighes, or so closely couer them, but that they would needs expresse my +inward desire.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +By means whereof she was changed from contagious loue, and striking with +hir stolen regards (enuying the same) she turned it vpon me, so as I +perceiued an incensing fire pruriently diffusing it selfe through my +inward parts and hollow veines: and during the contemplate beholding of +hir most rare and excellent beautie, a mellifluous delight and sweete +solace constrained me thereunto. Thus disordinately beaten with the +importune spur of vnsatiable desire, I found my selfe to be set vpon +with the mother of loue, inuironed round about with hir flamigerous +sonne, and inuaded with so faire a shape, that I was with these and +others so excellent circumstances brought into such an agonie of minde +and sicknes of bodie, and in such sort infeebled, that the least haire +of hir head was a band forcible ynough to hold me fast, and euery rowled +tramell a chaine and shackle to fetter me, being fed with the sweetnes +of hir beautie, and hooked with the pleasant baits of hir amorous +delights, that I was not able with whatsoeuer cunning deuise to resist +the inuading heates and prouoking desires still comming vpon me, that I +determined rather to die than longer to endure the same, or in this +solitarie place to offer hir any dishonor.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Then againe I was determined with humble requests and submissiue +intreaties to say thus:</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Alas most delighted <i>Polia</i>, at this present to die by thee is a +thing that I desire, and my death if it were effected by these thy +small, slender and faire hands, the ende thereof should be more +tolerable, sweete and glorious vnto me, bicause my hart is compassed +about with such tormenting flames, still more and more cruelly +increasing, and burning the same without pitie or intermission, so as by +meanes thereof I am bereft of all rest.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +And heerewithall intending to put in execution another +<!--png 210--> +<span class = "pagenum">100</span> +determinate purpose, behold my hart was tormented with more sharpe +flames, that me thought I was all of a light fire. Ah wo is me what wert +thou aduised to do <i>Poliphilus</i>? Remember the violence done to +<i>Deianira</i> and the chaste Roman lady. Consider what followed them +for a reward, and diuers others.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +Call to minde that mighty princes haue beene reiected of their +inferiors, how much more then a base and abiect person, but tract of +time giueth place to them which expect the bountie thereof. Time causeth +the fierce lions to be tame, and whatsoeuer furious beast: the small ant +by long trauell laieth vp hir winter foode in the hard tree, and shall +not a diuine shape lying hid in a humane bodie take the impression of +feruent loue, and then holding the same, shake off all annoyous and +vexing passions, hoping to enioy amorous fruits, desired effects, and +triumphing agonismes.</p> + +<p class = "main"> +The Nymph <i>Polia</i> perceiuing well the change of my colour and blood +comming in more stranger sort than <i>Tripolion</i> or <i>Teucrion</i>, +thrise a day changing the colour of his flowers, and my indeuoring to +sende out scalding sighes deeply set from the bottome of my hart, she +did temper and mitigate the same with hir sweete and friendly regards, +pacifieng the rage of my oppressing passions, so as notwithstanding my +burning minde in these continuall flames and sharpe prouocations of +loue, I was aduised patiently to hope euen with the bird of Arabia in +hir sweet nest of small sprigs, kindled by the heate of the sunne to be +renewed.</p> + + +<h3 class = "chapter">FINIS.</h3> + +<hr> + +<h3><a name = "endnotes">Technical Notes and further +information</a></h3> + +<div class = "mynote"> +The printed book used an unusual page-numbering system. Only the +recto (front) side of each folio (leaf) had a printed number. In this +e-text, the unnumbered verso (back, overleaf) pages are shown in the +margin as [v]. In addition, the first two or three leaves in each +eight-page signature are numbered: A, A2, A3... B, B2....<br> +Oddities of punctuation are as in the original, but missing full stops +at paragraph-end have been supplied.<br> +<br> +<b>The Text</b><br> +This e-text is based on a facsimile edition made from a single copy of +the 1592 original. In some places, text is illegible or missing.<br> +“The Italian version” refers to the 1499 text. At time of preparation, +page images of this book were available at <a href = +"http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/HP/hyp000.htm">http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/HP/hyp000.htm</a> +and linked pages. Note that the 1592 English translation covers just +under half the Italian text. Within these pages, the translation +reproduces one-third (22 of 70) of the illustrations of the Italian +edition, concentrated in the early part of the book. The Italian text +was consulted in some cases of uncertain readings in the English. The +sidenotes have no Italian equivalent.<br> +<br> +<b>Illustrations:</b><br> +Some pairs of illustrations were printed on facing pages and would have +been seen together. They are shown here as thumbnails, along with some +facing pages from the Italian version.<br> +<br> +<b>Greek and Inscriptions:</b><br> +The Greek text often introduces additional errors that were not present +in the Italian version. Among other problems, the text uses a form of +Π (Pi) that is easily confused with Γ (Gamma), and an Υ (Upsilon) that +resembles Τ (Tau). The Arabic text could not be transcribed.</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote1" href = "#endtag1">1.</a> +Greek text as printed, page 9: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΛΙΧΑ ΣΟΛΙΒΙΚΟΣ ΛΙΟΟΔΟΜΟΣ ΩΡΘΟΣΕΝ ΜΕ. +</div> +First lambda is printed upside-down. Probable intended reading: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΛΙΧΑΣ Ο ΛΙΒΙΚΟΣ ΛΙΘΟΔΟΜΟΣ ΩΡΘΩΣΕΝ ΜΕ.<br> +(LICHAS HO LIBIKOS LITHODOMOS ÔRTHÔSEN ME) +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote2" href = "#endtag2">2.</a> +Text as printed, page 10v: +<div class = "endquote ital"> +Poliphilus, after the discription of the huge Pyramides and Obeliske, +discourseth of maruelous woorkes in this Chapter, namely of a horsse of +Colos<span class = "inset"> </span>of an +Oliphant, but especially of a most rare and straunge Porche.</div> +Page image (with hanging indent): +<div class = "endquote"> +<img src = "images/img10v.jpg" width = "338" height = "59" +alt = "page 10v image showing gap in text"></div> +Italian text: +<div class = "endquote"> +... cum el mirando obelisco. nel sequente capitulo descrive magne et +miravegliose opere, et praecipuamente de uno caballo, de uno iacente +colosso, de uno elephanto, ma praecipuamente de una elegantissima porta. +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote3" href = "#endtag3">3.</a> +Pages 12v and 13:</div> +<p class = "illustration full"> +<img src = "images/img12v_13r.jpg" width = "449" height = "345" +alt = "facing pages 12v, 13"> +</p> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote4" href = "#endtag4">4.</a> +Pages 16v and 17 (not on facing pages in Italian):</div> + +<p class = "illustration full"> +<img src = "images/img16v_17r.jpg" width = "453" height = "343" +alt = "facing pages 16v, 17"> +</p> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote5" href = "#endtag5">5.</a> +Greek text as printed, page 12v: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΓΥΜΝΟΣ ΗΝ, ΕΙ ΜΗ ΑΝ ΘΗΡΙ-<br> +ΟΝ ΕΜΕΚΑΛΥΨΕΝ. ΖΗΤΕΙ. ΕΥ-<br> +ΡΗΣΗΔΕ. ΕΑΣΟΝ ΜΕ.</div> +Text with corrected spacing: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΓΥΜΝΟΣ ΗΝ, ΕΙ ΜΗ ΑΝ ΘΗΡΙ-<br> +ΟΝ ΕΜΕ ΚΑΛΥΨΕΝ. ΖΗΤΕΙ. ΕΥ-<br> +ΡΗΣΗ ΔΕ. ΕΑΣΟΝ ΜΕ.<br> +(GUMNOS ÊN, EI MÊ AN THÊRI-<br> +ON EME KALUPSEN. ZÊTEI. HEU-<br> +RÊSÊ DE. EASON ME) +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote6" href = "#endtag6">6.</a> +Latin text as printed, page 12v: +<div class = "endquote"> +NVDVSESSEM, BES-<br> +TIA NIME TEXIS-<br> +SET, QVAERE, ET<br> +INVE NIES. MESI-<br> +NITO.</div> +Text with corrected spacing and punctuation: +<div class = "endquote"> +NVDVS ESSEM, BES-<br> +TIA NI ME TEXIS-<br> +SET. QVAERE, ET<br> +INVENIES. ME SI-<br> +NITO.</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote7" href = "#endtag7">7.</a> +Hebrew text as printed, page 13: +<div class = "endquote"> +שתהיה קח מן האוצר הזה כאות נפשך +<br>הסר הראש ואל תיגע בגופו היה מי<br> +אבל אזהיר אותך +</div> +Same text in Italian version: +<div class = "endquote"> +היה מי שתהיה קח מן האוצר הזה כאות נפשך +<br>אבל אזהיר אותך הסר הראש ואל תיגע בגופו +<br>(Heye me shetihiye kach min ha’otzar ze ka’avat nafshecha<br> +aval azhir otcha haser harosh ve’al tiga begufo) +</div> +The translation of the Italian version is similar to the accompanying +Greek and Latin; the English version is nonsense. Apparently the +engraver did not know that Hebrew is written from right to left. The +“last” (rightmost) two words of the first line were moved to the +“beginning” (left edge) of the second line, and then the “last” +(rightmost) three words of this line were moved down to make a new +(left-justified) line. +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote8" href = "#endtag8">8.</a> +Greek text as printed, page 13: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΟΣΤΙΣ ΕΙ, ΑΛΒΕΕΚ ΤΟΥ ΔΕ ΤΟΥ<br> +ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟΥ, ΟΣΝΟΝ ΑΝΑ ΡΕΣΚΟΙ.<br> +ΠΑΡΑΙΝΩ ΔΕ ΩΣ ΛΑΒΗ<span class = "smaller">Ι</span>Σ ΤΗΝ<br> +ΚΕΦΑΛΗΝ, ΜΗ ΑΠΤΟΥ ΕΩΜΑΤΟΣ. +</div> +Probable intended reading: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΟΣΤΙΣ ΕΙ, ΛΑΒΕ ΕΚ ΤΟΥΔΕ ΤΟΥ<br> +ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟΥ, ΟΣΟΝ ΑΝΑΡΕΣΚΟΙ.<br> +ΠΑΡΑΙΝΩ ΔΕ ΩΣ ΛΑΒΗΙΣ ΤΗΝ<br> +ΚΕΦΑΛΗΝ, ΜΗ ΑΠΤΟΥ ΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ.<br> +(HOSTIS EI, LABE EK TOUDE TOU<br> +THÊSAUROU, HOSON ANARESKOI.<br> +PARAINÔ DE HÔS LABÊIS TÊN<br> +KEPHALÊN, MÊ HAPTOU SÔMATOS.) +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote9" href = "#endtag9">9.</a> +Latin text as printed, page 13: +<div class = "endquote"> +...QVANTVNCVN-<br> +QUE LIBVERIT<br> +HVIVS THESAVRI<br> +SVME AD MONEO... +</div> +Correctly spaced form: ...ADMONEO +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote10" href = "#endtag10">10.</a> +Sidenote text: +<div class = "endquote"> +Amor mi troua di tutto disarmato. +</div> +This line is not taken from the Italian original. +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote11" href = "#endtag11">11.</a> +Greek text as printed, page 21v: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΘΕΟΙΣ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΙΚΑΙ ΤΩ Ω ΕΡΟΤΙ ΔΙΟΝΙΣΟΣ ΥΚΑΙ<br> +ΔΗ ΜΗΤΡΑ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΙΔΙΩΝ ΜΥΤΡΙ<br> +ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΣ ΤΑΤΗ +</div> +Probable intended reading: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΘΕΟΙΣ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΙ ΚΑΙ ΤΩΙ ΥΙΩΙ ΕΡΩΤΙ. ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΣ ΚΑΙ<br> +ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΙΔΙΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΙ<br> +ΣΥΜΠΑΘΕΣΤΑΤΗΙ.<br> +(THEOIS APHRODITÊI KAI TÔI HUIÔI ERÔTI DIONUSOS KAI<br> +DÊMÊTRA EK TÔN IDIÔN MÊTRI<br> +SUMPATHESTATÊ) +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote12" href = "#endtag12">12.</a> +Sidenote as it appears in printed book, page 23v: +<div class = "endquote"> +<img src = "images/img23v.jpg" width = "115" height = "81" +alt = "image of sidenote showing missing letters"></div> +Reconstructed sidenote showing conjectural letters: +<div class = "endquote"> +<img src = "images/img23v_exp.jpg" width = "115" height = "81" +alt = "image of reconstructed sidenote"></div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote13" href = "#endtag13">13.</a> +Layout of page 28 in printed text is ambiguous, with possible paragraph +break. Page image, including one normal paragraph break: +<div class = "endquote"> +<img src = "images/img28r.jpg" width = "346" height = "156" +alt = "image of text page"></div> +Italian text: +<div class = "endquote"> +Cum gli exquisiti parergi. Aque. fonti. monti. colli. boscheti. animali. +di prauato il coloramento cum la distantia, & cum il lume opposito... +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote14" href = "#endtag14">14.</a> +Greek text as printed, page 33: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΑΕΙ ΣΠΕΥ ΔΕ ΒΡΑΔΕΟΣ +</div> +Corrected form: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΑΕΙ ΣΠΕΥΔΕ ΒΡΑΔΕΩΣ<br> +(AEI SPEUDE BRADEÔS) +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote15" href = "#endtag15">15.</a> +Greek text as printed, page 35: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΠΑΝΤΑ ΤΟ ΚΑΔΙ +</div> +Greek text below figure, page 35v: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΠΑΝΤΩΝ ΤΟ ΚΑΔΙ +</div> +Both forms are incorrectly spaced, and should read +<div class = "endquote"> +...ΤΟΚΑΔΙ<br> +(TOKADI) +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote16" href = "#endtag16">16.</a> +The text of page 35 with figure on page 35v, shown here in the Italian +version (facing pages). Note also the spacing of the Greek words.</div> + +<p class = "illustration full"> +<img src = "images/img_ital72_73.jpg" width = "433" height = "325" +alt = "pages 72, 73 from Italian original"> +</p> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote17" href = "#endtag17">17.</a> +Up to this point, the English translation has included most (17 of 22) +of the illustrations found in the Italian original. From here on they +will become increasingly infrequent.</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote18" href = "#endtag18">18.</a> +Text as printed, page 56v: +<div class = "endquote"> +...there was continually heard <span class = +"extended"> </span>dious soundes, and pleasaunt +harmonies, sweete con-<span class = "extended"> </span> +with delightfull Musicke presented, odoriferous per-<span class = +"extended"> </span> smelt, and stately viandes +plentifully fedde of.</div> +Page image showing line length: +<div class = "endquote"> +<img src = "images/img56v.jpg" width = "329" height = "84" +alt = "page 56v image showing gaps in text"></div> +Italian text: +<div class = "endquote"> +... continuamente si udiuano gratissimi soni, si auscultaua lepidissimi +concenti, si persentiua delectabile melodia, iocundissimo odoramento, se +exhauriua, & lautissima satietate suauissimamente gustando si +receueua....</div> +Note also that the full word ‘euerie’ is given at the beginning of the +following page.</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote19" href = "#endtag19">19.</a> +“Pineapple kernels”, page 57: The Italian has “nuclei pinei”. On page +57v, “seme de pine” is translated ”seedes of Pines”.</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote20" href = "#endtag20">20.</a> +The text of page 61 with figure on page 61v, shown here in the Italian +version (facing pages).</div> + +<p class = "illustration full"> +<img src = "images/img_ital114_115.jpg" width = "423" height = "324" +alt = "pages 114, 115 from Italian original"> +</p> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote21" href = "#endtag21">21.</a> +Text as printed, page 69: +<div class = "endquote ital"> +Theonlykos Dys Algetos</div> +The Italian text has the words in Greek: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΘΕΩΝ ΛΥΚΟΣ ΔΥΣ ΑΛΓΗΤΟΣ<br> +(THEÔN LUKOS DUS ALGÊTOS)</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote22" href = "#endtag22">22.</a> +Text as printed, page 71v: +<div class = "endquote"> +... shee sayd, vnder the forme of the Sunne, note this Greeke worde, +<i>Adiegetos</i>. By the Owe looke vpon this, <i>Adiachoristos</i>. And +by the Vessel of fier, was engrauen, <i>Adiereynes</i>.</div> +The Italian text has the three italicized words in Greek: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΑΔΙΗΓΗΤΟΣ ... ΑΔΙΑΧΩΡΙΣΤΟΣ ... ΑΔΙΕΡΕΥΝΗΣ<br> +(ADIÊGÊTOS ... ADIACHÔRISTOS ... ADIEREUNÊS)</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote23" href = "#endtag23">23.</a> +Text over doorways, page 74v [Arabic text not transcribed]: +<div class = "endquote"> +<br> +<span class = "greek" title = "Hebrew: Tif’eret Ha’el"> תפארת האל +</span> +<br> +<span class = "greek" title = "Greek: THEODOXIA">ΘΕΟΔΟΞΙΑ</span><br> +GLORI DEI +<br> + <br> +<span class = "greek" title = "Hebrew: Gidul Ha’a’hava"> גידול האהבה +</span> +<br> +<span class = "greek" title = "Greek: +ERÔTOTROPHOS">ΕΡΩΤΟΤΡΟΦΟΣ</span><br> +MATER AMORIS +<br> + <br> +<span class = "greek" title = "Hebrew: Tif’eret Ha’olam"> תפארת העולם +</span><br> +<span class = "greek" title = "Greek: KOSMODOXIA">ΚΟΣΜΟΔΟΞΙΑ</span><br> +GLORIA MV̅DI +</div> +This is the last illustration in the English translation. +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote24" href = "#endtag24">24.</a> +The first two gateways, from text on page 75, as pictured on facing +pages in the Italian version:</div> + +<p class = "illustration full"> +<img src = "images/img_ital136_137.jpg" width = "418" height = "335" +alt = "pages 136, 137 from Italian original"> +</p> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote25" href = "#endtag25">25.</a> +Greek text as printed, page 88: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΣΥΜΟΙΠΛ ΥΚΥΣΤΕΚΑΙΠΚΡΟΣ +</div> +Probable intended reading: +<div class = "endquote"> +ΣΥΜΟΙ ΓΛΥΚΥΣ ΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΠΙΚΡΟΣ<br> +(SUMOI GLUKUS TE KAI PIKROS) +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote26" href = "#endtag26">26.</a> +Text as printed, page 88v: +<div class = "endquote"> +these had a consort of liuncyers (<i>or</i> liuncyets?) winde +Instruments, full of spirite.</div> +Italian text: +<div class = "endquote"> +cum mirabili & ueterrimi istrumenti da flato concordi, & cum +incredibili spiriti expressi. +</div> +</div> + +<div class = "endnote"> +<a name = "endnote27" href = "#endtag27">27.</a> +Sidenote, page 97v: +<div class = "endquote"> +<i>Hamadryades</i> were nymphs of the wood and <i>Symenides</i><br> +<i>Vertumnus</i> the God of fruits.</div> +It is not clear whether this is meant to be one note or two. 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