rowed,
and vpward wrought with nextrulles: the seate whereof was somewhat
hallowed, for the more easily sitting vppon it. The Lyneaments thereof
most excellent.
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.
_The fourth Tryumph._
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.
The right side whereof, helde this History. _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._
Vpon the other side, I behelde _Iupiter_, 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.
In the fore-ende, I might see howe _Cupid_ hauing shot vp into heauen
with hys mischeeuous Arrowe, had caused _Iupiter_ to beholde a mortall
Nymph: and a great number of wounded people woondering at it.
In the hinder end was _Iupiter_ sitting in a tribunall seate as iudge,
and _Cupide_ 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 _Iupiter_ with a smiling
countenance speaking to _Cupid_,
_Perfer scintillam qui coelum accendis & omnes._
This _Monosticon_ was grauen in Latine letters in a square table before
the faces of their supreame maiesties, the rest as is described.
This mysticall triumph was drawen by sixe spotted beasts of yealow
shining colour, and sw
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