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.

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, _Theonlykos Dys Algetos_.

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.

And then she smyling, said: _Poliphilus_, 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
companion _Thelemia_, who demanding the cause why they staid so long
aboue, _Logistica_ made aunswer, it doth not content our _Poliphilus_,
onely to behold, but also to vnderstand by me the secrecie of those
things, which he could not goe to knowe, wherein I haue satis-fied him.
And when she had ended, _Thelemia_ said.

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: [ae]quiuolent 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 a