Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame

(a) Phæbus the Sunne. (b) Leucothea the morning. (c) Pyr & Eo, the horses of the Sunne. What houre as Phœbus(a) issuing foorth, did bewtifie with brightnesse the forhead of Leucothea(b), and appearing out of the Occean waues, not fully shewing his turning wheeles, that had beene hung vp, but speedily with his swift horses Pyrous & Eous(c), hastning his course, and giuing a tincture to the Spiders webbes, among the greene leaues and tender prickles of the Vermilion Roses, in the pursuite whereof he shewed himselfe most swift & glistering, now vpon the neuer resting and still moouing waues, he crysped vp his irradient heyres.

(d) Horison a circle deuiding the halfe speare of the firmament from the other halfe which we doe not see. (e) Hemispere is halfe the compasse of the visible heauen. Vppon whose vprising, euen at that instant, the vnhorned Moone dismounted hir selfe, losing from hir Chariot hir two horses, the one white and the other browne, and drewe to the Horrison(d) different from the Hemisphere(e) from whence she came.

And when as the mountaines and hilles were beautifull, and the northeast winds had left of to make barraine with the sharpnesse of their blasts, the tender sprigs to disquiet the moouing [v] reedes, the fenny Bulrush, and weake Cyprus, to torment the foulding Vines, to trouble the bending Willowe, and to breake downe the brittle Firre bowghes, vnder the hornes of the lasciuious Bull, as they do in winter.