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• 1 ACheron ab à privati. partic. & [...] gau­deo; an infernal Lake without joy or comfort, which the soules of the dead are feigned to pass.
• 2 An huge Forrest in Germany, where some are said to have travailed forty dayes together, with­out finding its beginning or end.
• 3 He going to the top of the high mountain Atlas, that he might the better observe the mo­tion of the starres; was seen no more, and so said to be turned into a star.
• 4 Citheron, or Cithaeron: a Mountain dedica­ted to the Muses.
• 5 A famous Poet that accompanied Iason to Colchis to ferch the golden Fleece.

• 1 Apollo.
• 2 One of Apollo's Temples at Delphi is said to have bin made of Laurel boughs, fetcht from the Tempe fields, which were very pleasant and de­lightfull places in Thessalie. Apollo's Temple was famous for the rich [...], presents or gifts of most of the Princes and people of the world: hence Aphetoriae opes (so called from [...], the name of Apollo who gave Oracles there) is used as a pro­verb for abundance of wealth.
• 3 Poets.
• 4 Donations of Land heretofore were writ in meeter; belike, to be kept the better in memory.
• 5 The Influence of Iupiter was esteemed to be of great force and efficacy for generation.
• 6 As the Bride was carried into the house, all the company cryed out with a loud voice, Talas­sio, Talassio; a word they used in memory of one Talassio, whose Marriage being very fortunate, they repeated his name often at Marriage-Feasts; to signifie their good wishes, and expresse their joy.
• 7 He would sound two trumpets together so loud, that the noise of them seemed to shake the the very Earth.
• 8 An Isle, where Apollo is said to be born.
• 9 The Morning, that appears before we can see the Sun.
• 10 Solis Civitas, the City of the Sun.

• 1 Canutus the Dane for having five Kingdomes, is said to be the greatest King that ever England had.
• 2 A Serpent destroyed by Hercules, that had fifty heads, and as fast as any one of them was cut off, two others came in the stead: Hercules to pre­vent this, as soon as he cut off any, took fire and seared the place.
• 3 He being put into a great Vessel full of Ser­pents, by the virtue of some herbs he had about him, charmed them so, that instead of hurting him, they all came about him and licked him.
• 4 Strabo gives Europe the form of a Dragon, and makes the head Spain, the neck France, the body Germany, the right wing Italie, the left Denmark.
• 5 The Titans are said to have waged War a­gainst Iupiter, who overthrowing them, sent them to hell.
• 6 Who'll expect Earth 'ere free from warres, That's overpow'rd by ( [...]) Dragon starres?
• 7 Iupiter and the rest of the Planets are said to have their Ioyes, when they are in those houses where they are most strong and powerfull.
• 8 She had her Image erected in a great Cedar, and was therefore called Cedreatis.
• 9 Acts 2. 3.
• 10 A City in which were spoken three hundred several Languages.
• 11 i. e. Germans.
• 12 The Pagan Germans great God, who as their Prince and chief Ruler, conducted them down from the tower of Babel, of which they say we are descended.

• 1 Where Babel was built.
• [Page]2 England, that many are of opinion was once Continent with France.
• 3 A famous rich City in Egypt, that the King bestowed upon his Queen to buy her shoes with.
• 4— Quo tempore primum Deucalion vacuum lapides jactavis in orbem: Vnde homines nati durum genus—In Deucalion's time they say there was a general inundation, that drowned all but him and his wife Pyrrha; they afterward consulting with Themis how to repair mankind, the Oracle an­swered them that they should cast the bones of their great Mother behind them: these they inter­preting to be the stones of the Earth, cast them over their heads; and so those he cast became men, those she cast, women.
• 5 Mark 11. 13.
• 6 An Island in the German Ocean, in which great store of Amber is said to drop from the trees.
• 7 These countries adjoyning upon the sea lie even without hills, but of such an height, as no in­undation of sea can now annoy them: formerly they with all the Netherlands that are without hills, are supposed to have bin sea.
• 8 Made by them in the Isle of the Walkers in the year 758.

• 1 One, whom the miseries of this life kept al­ways weeping.
• 2 An huge Serpent, that after Deucalion's floud was bred out of the corruption of the Earth.
• 3 A Philosopher who dyed with joy.
• 4 A great Philosopher writ a book with this In­scription, Dii sint, necne, incertus sum.
• 5 Diros Pharsalia campos Impleat: in this Field fell the storms of two great civil Warres, the one between Caesar and Pompey, the other between Augustus and those bloudy Rebels, Brutus and Cassius.
• 6 Vbi piorum animae habitant, a place of Blisse.
• 7 A River said to come out of Hell.
• 8 A River comes out of Paradice, that hath it's name from [...] to rejoice and make glad, for the wonderfull great abundance it produceth in those places it watereth.
• 9 [...], i. e. Luporum civitas, a Citie of Wolves.
• 10 From [...], beatus; the Romans call it Beata the Blessed City.
• 11 She for contending with Pallas for beauty, was turned into a Fish.
• 12— Volucres Pyrois, Eous & Aethon Solis equi, quartusqae Phlegon hinnitibus auras Flammi­feris implent: Sol the Sun is said to be carried in a charriot drawn with four horses.
• 13 Hecate Dea triforme, significante li tre aspetti della Luna e la portenza lunare nelle cose elementari, stà sogetta al Sole ed è pigliata per la Natura. Hecate vel Luna, (quam triformem putabant: quia nunc in cornua & prope vacua surgit, nunc dimidia est, nunc orbe pleno) Natura non rarò appellabatur.
• 14— Venti Divum referatis ad aures, Virgil. Dice venti non fama, perche volevano li poëte che i venti portassero le preci humane all' orecchie de' Dei che lafama divolgasse i fatt [...]h mani all' orec [...]hie de gli huomini. The Poets esteemed the winds con­veyed their prayers to the gods.

• 1 Macaria ò Dea Felicità fà fatta con il Ca­duceo ed il dcorno i divitia in mano, quello signi­ficante la virtù, questo le ricchezze necessarie e l' un' e l' altro alla felicità humana. The goddess Maca­ria or Felicity had in one hand the Caduceus, in the othe the Cornu-copia, signilying by that the virtue▪ by this the Riches that are requisite to humane happinesse.
• 2 The Icarian Sea was so called from Icarus, who flying too high with his waxed wings, the Sun melted them; and he fell down there.
• 3 He presuming to be able to rule the Horses of the Sun, let the reins go, and so being like to fire all the world, Iupiter struck him with a Thunderbolt, who presently tumbled down into the River Eri­danus.
• 4 A River made of the Tears of those Nymphs lamented the death of Marsyas, whom Apollo destroyed for his impudence to contend with him.
• 5 Atlas is said to bear the Heaven upon his shoulders.
• 6 He fought with Hercules for Deianira, and being vanquished, turned himself into a River of his name; in this River is found the stone Gala­ctis, that looks and tasts like milk.
• 7 He was King of three Spanish islands; from hence said to have three bodies, or else from his three sonnes, the unitie of whose minds was such, as if they had but one soul among them all.
• 8 Iason, Typhis, Castor, Pollux and the rest that went in the Ship Argo to fetch the Golden Fleece.
• 9 A stately vessel so called, like a Galley, where­in the Duke of Venice goes to wed the Sea, to en­tertain great Princes, or take his pleasure.
• 10 She with her Brother Phryxus riding upon the golden Ram to passe the Pontus, fell off and was drown'd; from whence that Sea was afterward called Hellespont.
• 11 A very cunning Artificer, who made a La­byrinth, an intricare work, with so many turnings and windings, that whosoever was put in, could not finde the way out agen. To 'scape out of this place, into which he and his Son was put by the King's command, with Feathers and Wax that he obtained under pretence of making some present for the King, he made himself and his Son Wings, and so escaped.

• 1 Lybia Africa, so called that abounds with wild beasts.
• 2 The Pageant that attended the Merchant­Taylors Company, was a Wildernesse, and in it [Page] sitting an Aged Man representing a Pilgrim in a Pil­grim's weed, and attended with Faith, Hope and Charity.
• 3 Dodona's Grove was said to have Trees that spake.
• 4 The motion of the Moon; Dum Luna ascen­dit ab Oceano, donec ad medium coeli veniat, effluunt aquae; refluuntque cum descendit.
• 5 The Moon.

• 1 Triton was son of the Ocean, and the Ocean's and Neptune's Trumpetter: he was a Man to his Navel, from thence downwards a Dolphin.
• 2 Souldiers that lined all the shore which by reason of the height of the flood was overflowed: so as they seemed as so many Trees planted in the River, being environed with water.
• 3 Oceanus is said to have 3000. Sonnes: Dicti sunt Fluvii [...] ▪ the Rivers that proceed from the Sea are said to be a divine Off▪ spring.
• 4 Meropus, a Mountain in Greece that answers the Voice with innumerable Eccho's.
• 5 Daughters of Nereus god of the Sea.
• 6 The Off spring of Noah remained dwelling divers yeares after the Floud upon the Hills and Mountains, 'till Shem, Ham and Iaphet adventured to descend and make their habitations in the lower ground, which before through the conceived fear of drowning, they durst not attempt to doe.
• 7 Philo writes that Noah had issue before he dyed 24000 men, besides women and children.
• 8 Menelaus being promised by Cyniras King of Cyprus 50. ships well manned with Souldiers▪ had onely one true ship of him, and for the rest, ships and men of clay.

• 1 Milesia stragula & vestes Milesiae, ob insignem mollitiem in matronarum delitiis habitae: in Mile­tos was made very rich Ornaments and furniture of all sorts.
• 2 Aglaia, Euphrosyne, Thalia, attendants of Venus:— Terram deffugiunt Charites.
• 3 Gratiae fertilitatem agrorum frugumque abun­dantiam significant. Sunt illae tres conjunctae sorores creditae, quia triplex est utilitas agriculturae, è cultu agrorum scilicet, arborum & animalium: the Graces that signifie the fruitfulnesse of the fields and great plenty of grain, are said to be three Sisters, holding each other, in respect of the threefold benefit of Husbandry; from the trees, beasts and fields, that they are said to bless.
• 4 Molles habent pedes, & omnium Deorum sunt tardissimae.
• 5 Fructiferae semper crescunt, augentur & Ho­rae.
• 6 Sunt triplices Charites tres Horae;—Eunomia, Dice, Irene.
• 7 Semper cum Gratiis conjunctae sunt.
• 8 They attribute to the Howers, to make cloudy or fair weather as they please.
• 9 Fish that cleaving to the keel of a ship, hinder it from going.

• 1 The Howers are said to keep the Gates of Heaven.
• 2 A River in Boe [...]tia where the Temple of The­mis stood, to which Deucalion and Pyrrha repaired to consult how to repair Mankind.
• 3 In his Ol [...]ae ramum foribus appendebant civi­tatis.
• 4 One of Iupiter's Priests; no body might fetch fire out of his house, unless to perform some Sacri­fice with it.
• 5 Hanc praelatâ divitiarum pompâ Praetores & Magistratus purpurati, in toga & praetexta, atque in ornatu maximo celebrabant, quare purpura Mega­rensis in vulgi proverbium venit: the Romans cele­brated this feast with wonderfull great publick pomp for the coming of Cybele the Mother of the gods out of Asia.
• 6 Graecis [...], Panathenaea; a great Feast in honour of Minerva, that all the Athenians u­nitedly celebrated.
• 7 Per ea unusquisque paterfamilias hostiam deli­gebat in Cereris sacrificia, quam querna corona cir­cum collum positâ ornabat, eamque ter circa sata duce­bat, quam universa familia querneis ramis coronati Cereris (que) laudes canentes cum tripudiis comitabantur.

• 1 A City formerly called Phlegra, that those Giants dwelt in, which Hercules overcame. In the fight there being great Thunder and Lighten­ing, heaven is said to have vanquished them.
• 2 Totaque thuriferis Panchaia pinguis arenis: A countrey of Arabia that abounds with Frankin­cense.
• 3 A Promontory of Thrace, that hath Gold and Silver mines.
• 4 A Temple that belonged to all the gods.
• 5 Nullus, ut Solinus ait, toto anno dies tam nubi­lus est, quo in hac insula Sol non cernatur.
• 6 Syracusis nunquam tanta obducitur nebula, ut non aliqua hora Solcernatur.
• 7 Tantum valet Tempus, vetustas vim hanc ha­bet; ignota profert, celat inde cognita. Omnia qui profers, consumis & omnia rursus. Saturnus omnia destruit, & omnia producit. He is said to devour all his children, because Time that is signified by him, consumes all it produceth, and repairs what is de­cayed as he vomited up the stone, and all things else he devoured.
• 8 Marmora discindit vis Temporis, ac neque ferro Parcit: inhumanâ cunctaque falce secat.
• 9 Saturn is said to be bound by Iupiter; for the command that the superiour bodies have over the inferiour.
• 10 Omnia sponte suâ hic sine aratro aut femine surgunt Hordea, frumentum, vites quae mollia vina Producunt, augetque Iovis gratissimus imber. A very plentifull Island.
• [Page 33]11 Quam prope sanguineo sequitur Bellona flagello. The goddess of War and sister of Mars, her Priests sacrificed their own bloud to her.
• 12 The Halcyon or King's fisher is said to build it's nest when the air is quiet and free from Storms.
• 13 Exod. 25. 20.

• 1 Two Doves are said to have given Oracles in Dodona's Grove.
• 2 Genesis 3. 24.
• 3 Albion and Bergion, sonnes of Neptune, hin­dering Hercules in his passing the Rhodanus, want­ing weapons to withstand them, Hercules implo­red Iupiter, and he rained down stones upon them; from hence the place was called the Stony field.
• 4 The City Confluentia in Germany, where the two Rivers Rhene and Mosel meet.
• 5 i. e. Civitas Dei, the city of God. Psal. 46. 4.
• 6 [...], augmentum, intercalatio, quicquid immittitur; Leap year, it usually signifies the inter­calation of a day or month: here of a whole year.
• 7 A River in Portugal, said to have golden sands.
• 8 [...], dona quae sponsus sponsae dabat, quum primum eam videret: [...] quae pro virgi­nitate adempta dantur: nuptialia dona, those she re­ceived of her friends.
• 9 Genialis lectus, quasi genitalis; the marriage-bed.
• 10 The Bride had a Zona or Girdle, untied the Wedding night; another there was left to be un­tied at the time of Child bearing: hence Hercula­nus nodus, in allusion not so much to Hercules his strength, as if they would have had it the faster or stronger tied; as to his happiness in making of children, as if they would have had it the faster un­tied, as fast as ever it was by Hercules, who had se­venty children.
• 11 A River of Lydia that hath golden sands, as Tagus.

• 1 One who brought forth the starres.
• 2 Roma potens alis cur stat Victoria lapsis? Vrbem ne valeat deseruisse tuam: the image of Vi­ctory erected in the Capitol in Rome that fell from Heaven, breaking onely it's wings off with the fall, gave Pompey occasion to say, Victory should never more depart thence.
• 3 Thyrsum.
• 4 Talaria.
• 5 A place in Phrygia the less (where clusters of grapes are said to grow to such a vast bigness, that sometimes a cart is broken in pieces by the very weight of one of them) given Bacchus and Ceres by Iupiter.
• 6 Numbers 10. 2.
• 7 Oculi sunt in amore duces, [...], fores animae.

• 1 [...], missivum osculum.
• 2 Cydontum malum, a kind of love-fruit grow­ing in the garden of Venus.
• 3 A River (as Pansanias sayes) in Acha [...]a, of force to wash away Love.
• 4 Three Sisters are said to spin the thread of our lives, Clotho holds the distaff, Lachesis spins the thread, and Atropos cuts it off. Clotho colum, Lachesis filum trahit, Atropos occat.

• 1 The children born in England of such Nor­mans as with the Conquerour had there seated themselves, rejected the name of Normans; were accounted and called English, and used the English tongue.
• 2 Anthropophagi, Massagetis finitimi: circa hos tristissima solitudo; sylvestres isti homines, aver­sis post crura plantis, maximam habent velocitatem, passimque cum feris vagantur.
• 3 An Island in the farthest parts of Aegypt, said to be unaccessible for the mud, rushes and such like encombrance that lie about it.

• 1 The very day that Hippodamia was married, Dictys with several other Centaures endeavoured to take her away by force, but were all slain by Hercules and Theseus.

• 1 Iupiter to enjoy Danae rained himself in a Golden Showr into her lap.
• 2 Pausania ragionando dell' Achaia, dice che in Egira città di quel Paese, era certo piccolo Tempio, oue ei vide Cupido stare à lato alla Fortuna, volendo mo­strare che questa anchora nelle cose d' Amore può as­sai, benche egli da se tanto possa che uinca tutte le piu ostinate voglie, spezza ogni indurato cuore, &c.
• 3 Ausonius makes Venus in armes, and Pallas dis­coursing with her.
• 4 Pausanias sayes in a certain part of the coun­trey of Corinth there was a Statue of a very hand­some woman in a long garment down to the ground that held Victory in her hand. In the same manner the Romans engraved Venus victrix, as may be seen in an ancient Medal or Stamp made in the time of Numerianus the Emperour.
• 5 Love is pictured sometimes with a burning Torch, sometimes with Thunderbolts in his hand (conciosia che questo non solo arde le cose che facilmen­te abbruciano, ma quelle anchora subito incende, alle quali altro fuoco non si tosto si attacarebbe, rompe e spezza cio che trova che se gli opponga, e sia pure quanto si voglia saldo, e duro, e penetra con mirabile prestrezza in ogni luoco) to signifie his great power.
• 6 Il piu pretioso tesoro dell' occhio, il ricco diaman­te che è di piu gran preggio di tutte le perle orientali, è il bel cristallino. Questo e l'anima dell' occhio e lo specchio dell' anima.
• 7 In the Vvea a coat of the eye that is of divers colours.
• 8 Vvea interiùs atrâ quasi fuli gine perfusa. The Vvea is like the husk of a black grape, Opaco infe­cta colore, ut recepta in oculum visibilis imago, veluti circumfusis umbris nigrescens flammula, magis [Page 34] elucesceret. It is black within, for the greater bene­fit to the eye by the light, that shines best in a dark place.

• 1 Da Venere celeste nasce quel divino Amore che solleval▪ animo humano alla contemplatione di dio, del­le Menti separate, che noi chiamiamo Angeli, e del­le cose del cielo, & e tutto puro, mondo e sincerisimo, e perciò fassi di corpo giovine, tutto lucido e bello.
• 2 Apresso i Lacedemonii, sopra il Tempio di Venere armata, era una capella oue Venere, chiamata Morpho, stava à sedere, con certo velo in capo, e con lacci o cep­pi che fossero a' piedi, basta che ella gli haveva legati, per mostrare che hanno da essere le donne di fermissima fede, verso quelli alli quali di nodo Maritale si sono gialigate. Morpho is the name of Venus in fetters, signifying the tie of Matrimony upon married weemen.
• 3 Phryno an Athenian Captain; the Philoso­pher Pittacus being to fight a Duel with him, car­ried a net secretly and caught him in it.
• 4 Matth. 4. 19▪
• 5 To signifie how fortunate Timotheus was, they feign him sleeping, and Fortune driving ci­ties as fish into his▪ net: Ita Fortunae non Minervae, Felicitati, non Virtuti res gestas & victorias ejus ascribebant. Thus attributing what he did and won to Fortune, not Pallas; to the luckey success at­tended his exploits, not to any Virtue he might have to bring them to effect.

• 1 Alluding to the custome of conserving Sainis and things sacred in a repository before the Altar, which that they may be seen, they face and beauti­fie over with a rich vail of Net work.
• 2 Divine and Princely, being, we know, former­ly famed by Saints and Queens.
• 3 The Poets feign the Almighty before the elements were created, made a band of wonderfull great brightness, and more admirable virtue to unite and keep together united hearts; this band Hymen is said to have to join true Lovers together, and make them for ever most happy in their Marriage.