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fe To thy di stresssed wretch cap tive, Ri buska whome late ly erst Most cru el ly thou perst With thy dead ly dart, That paire of starres Shi ning a farre Turne from me, to me That I may & may not see The smile, the loure That lead and driue Me to die to liue Twise yea thrise In one hourre. To which _Selamour_ to make the match egall, and the figure entire, answered in a standing Triquet richly engrauen with letters of like stuffe. Power Of death Nor of life Hath Selamour, With Gods it is rife To giue and bereue breath I may for pitie perchaunce Thy lost libertie re - store, Vpon thine othe with this penaunce, That while thou liuest thou neuer loue no more. This condition seeming to Sultan _Ribuska_ very hard to performe, and cruell to be enjoyned him, doeth by another figure a Taper, signifying hope, answere the Lady _Selamour_, which dittie for lack of time I translated not. _Of the Spire or Taper called Pyramis._ The Taper is the longest and sharpest triangle that is, & while he mounts vpward he waxeth continually more slender, taking both his figure and name of the fire, whole flame if ye marke it, is alwaies pointed, and naturally by his forme couets to clymbe: the Greekes call him Pyramis. The Latines in vse of Architecture call him _Obeliscus_, it holdeth the altitude of six ordinary triangles, and in metrifying his base can not well be larger then a meetre of six, therefore in his altitude he will require diuers rabates to hold so many sizes of meetres as shall serue for his composition, for neare the toppe there wil be roome little inough for a meetre of two sillables, and sometimes of one to finish the point. I haue set you downe one or two examples to try how ye can disgest the maner of the deuise. _Her Maiestie, for many parts in her most noble and vertuous nature to be found, resembled to the spire. Ye must begin beneath according to the nature of the deuice_. _Skie, 1 ----- A zurd 2 in the assurde. -----
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