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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

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Lib.2. Drawing andLimming.
ting the Heaven, upon her head a Coronet of bright
Stars, in her hand a Glebe, representing the cclestial
Spheres. Her name imports as much as heaven!y, for
it is her office to describe heaven, and the Spheres*
Vrania exit vnotusserutatur & AJira.
Calliope.
Calliope would be painted richest of all the reft,
upon her head a Coronet of Gold, as Queen of her
fellows, howsoever we here give her the last place, up-
on her left arm many Garlands of Bay in store for the
reward of Poets 5 in her right hand three Books,whose
titles may be Illiadeost Odyjseos9 and JEneidos, as the
worthiest of Poetry.
I have thus briefely given you the draught of this
fair company, as Fulvius Vrsinus reports they are
deseribed in the Med da Is of the ancient Fami.y of Pom-
fonia, the rather because their description agreeth
with the invention of Virgil, and the rest os the
antient Poets,

CHAP. VI.
Pan and the Satyres.
THis word Pan, in Greek signifieth Ally or the
Universal; and indeed he is nothing else but
an Allegoricall fidion of the World, he is
painted with a Goats face, red blown cheeks, upon
his head two horns (landing upright, about his stioul-
ders a Panthers skin, in one hand a crooked Sheep-
hook, in the other a Pipe of sevenreeds,corapad with
wax together : from the middle downwards, he bear-
eth the stiape of a Goatjin this manner he is expressed
by Boccaee ond Silius ltalicu$t
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