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EXTRAORDINARY CLOCK AT STRASBOURG. 315
an hour-glass, which he moveth likewise hourly. Nota-
able objects tending to mortification. Both the lower
ends of this middle engine are very excellently graced
with the portraiture ol two huge lions, carved in marble.
This part of the third fabrick, wherein standeth the
clock, is illustrated with many notable sentences of the
Holy Scripture, written in Latin. As In principio creuit
Deus calumet terram. Gene. 1. cap. Omnis caro fan-
num, Pet. 1. cap. 1. Peccati stipendium mors est, Rom. 6.
Dei donum vita eternaper Christum. Rom. 6. Ascendisti
in altum, cepisti captiutatem. Psal. 68. Again, under
the same, are written these sentences, in a lower degree:
Ecce ego creo calos novos et terram novam. Esaiae 65.
Ex pergriscimini et latamini qui habitatis in pulvere,
Esa. 26. Venite benedicti patris mei, possidete regnum
vobis paratum. Discedite t? me maledicti in ignem atur^
num. Math. 25. Above these sentences divers goodly
arms are advanced, and beautified with fair escutchens.
Under the same many curious pictures are drawn, which
present only histories of the Bible. Again, above that
orb which I have already mentioned, there is erected'
another orb, or sphere, wherein are figured the hours
distinguishing time, and a great company of Mathema-
tical conceits, which do decypher some of the most ab-
struse and secret mysteries of the noble science of Astro-
nomy. Likewise, another orb standeth above this that I
last speak of, within the which is expressed the figure of
an half moon, and many glittering stars, set forth most
gloriously in gold; and again, without are formed four
half moons, and two full moons. Above the higher part
of this orb this impress is written : Qua est tarn illustris,
similes aurora pulera ut Luna, pura ut Sol. At the sides
■of it, beneath this poesie, is written, which is thus dis-
tributed :—Dominus lux mea, on the left hand ; and, on
the right hand, Quern timebo ? Also, above the same orb,
R r I observed
an hour-glass, which he moveth likewise hourly. Nota-
able objects tending to mortification. Both the lower
ends of this middle engine are very excellently graced
with the portraiture ol two huge lions, carved in marble.
This part of the third fabrick, wherein standeth the
clock, is illustrated with many notable sentences of the
Holy Scripture, written in Latin. As In principio creuit
Deus calumet terram. Gene. 1. cap. Omnis caro fan-
num, Pet. 1. cap. 1. Peccati stipendium mors est, Rom. 6.
Dei donum vita eternaper Christum. Rom. 6. Ascendisti
in altum, cepisti captiutatem. Psal. 68. Again, under
the same, are written these sentences, in a lower degree:
Ecce ego creo calos novos et terram novam. Esaiae 65.
Ex pergriscimini et latamini qui habitatis in pulvere,
Esa. 26. Venite benedicti patris mei, possidete regnum
vobis paratum. Discedite t? me maledicti in ignem atur^
num. Math. 25. Above these sentences divers goodly
arms are advanced, and beautified with fair escutchens.
Under the same many curious pictures are drawn, which
present only histories of the Bible. Again, above that
orb which I have already mentioned, there is erected'
another orb, or sphere, wherein are figured the hours
distinguishing time, and a great company of Mathema-
tical conceits, which do decypher some of the most ab-
struse and secret mysteries of the noble science of Astro-
nomy. Likewise, another orb standeth above this that I
last speak of, within the which is expressed the figure of
an half moon, and many glittering stars, set forth most
gloriously in gold; and again, without are formed four
half moons, and two full moons. Above the higher part
of this orb this impress is written : Qua est tarn illustris,
similes aurora pulera ut Luna, pura ut Sol. At the sides
■of it, beneath this poesie, is written, which is thus dis-
tributed :—Dominus lux mea, on the left hand ; and, on
the right hand, Quern timebo ? Also, above the same orb,
R r I observed