Peacham, Henry: The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c (London, 1661)

CHAP. I.
Teaching how, according to truth to purtrad
and express. Eternity, Hope, Vi&ory, Piety^
providence3PertHe3 time, Peaces Concord^F ame3
Common Sasety, Clemency, as they
have been by Antiquity described either in
Comes, Statues, or other the like Publike
Monuments.
Eternity.
THE most ancient picture of Eternity, was ex-
pressed in the form of a fair Lady,having three
heads, Signifying those three parts of tim e3viz.
Time past, Present, and to come; in her left hand a
Circle pointing with her right fore-finger up to hea-
ven, the Circle Shews she hath neither beginning nor
end, and those three heads not altogether improper to
her, sor saith Petr.
Non haura lnogo3 su3 Sara3 ne era
Ma e solo in presente3 & bora & boggi
£t sola eternita racolta3 'e per a, s/i Awnjss
In the Meddals of traian and Vmitian3 she is figu-
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