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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displaide, as about to fing, bccause when this winde
foloweth, the Swan singeth sweetliest; upon his head a
Garland of all manner of sweet Flowers of the Spring:
thusheisdescribed by Philojiratus^ for with his gentle
and warm breath, he bringeth them forth 5 which Pe*
trarch as lively depainteth in that Sonnet of his,which
with Gironinto Conversi and many more excellent Muii-
tians, I have lastly chosen for a Ditty in my Songs
of 4, or 5. parts, being; a Subjeft far fitter than foolish
and vain love, to which our excellent Mufttians are
overmuch addi&ed.
Zephiro tornae’lbel temporimena.
Ei fiori9 e*l berbe sua doice samiglia.
E gioir progne, e plunger Filomena.
Efrimavera Candida e verntiglia, &c,
Zephyrus, is so called of the Grecians, quasi
bringing life,because as I said,it cheerisheth and quick-
neth all things.
Boreas^ or the North Wind,
Boreas, is drawn like an old man with a horrid and
terrible countenance, his hair and beard quite covered
with snow, or frozen with Iseickles, with the feet and
tail of a Serpent, as he is described by Ovid in his Me-
tamorphosis.
Ausler9 er the South Wind,
Ausier, is drawn with head and wings wet, a pot
or urne pouring forth water, with the which shall
descend Frogs, Grashoppers, Caterpillers, and the
like creatures as are bred by much moidure. The
South Wind of his own nature is cold and dry, and
palling through the burning Zone, etre ic cometh
to us, it receiveth heat and moisture from the abun-
dance of rain 5 thus the naturcof it being changed,
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