aues of bitter _Alisander_, 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.

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INFOELI/CI/TATIS]

At the hinder end in like sort was a garland of deadly Woolfwoort,
with this inscription, _Equus inf[ae]licitatis_. 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:[A] 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.

[Sidenote A: None liue in this world in that pleasure, but they haue
also their sorowes in time.]

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Vnder which Hemiall figure, there was inscript this worde TEMPVS. On the
contrary side I beheld many of greene adolescency of like proportion to
the former, and in suchlike compasse or space, the grounds of both
beautified and set foorth with an exquisite foliature 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,[A] and in such sort as abouesaid
vnder the figure were ingrauen certaine capitall letters, to shew this
one word AMISSIO, conteyning the ninth part to the Diameter or the
quadrature.

[Sidenote A: Gift vainely bestowed, in time wantonlie spent, is a
great losse, & breedeth repentance.]

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At the first sight hereof I was amased and astonished, but with better
regard & great delight curiously reouerlooking the huge founded Machine