Salmon, William: Polygraphice; Or, The Art of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Colouring and Dying: In Three Books ... (London, 1672)

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G H A P. XVIII.
Os Verities and Vices.
I,T 7ER.TUE , Is reprefented by
V Hercules*, naked with his Lyons
skin, and knotted club5performing feme
one of his Labours 5 as ossering tostrike
a dragon keeping an Apple-tree 5 or
holding in his hand three golden Ap-
ples.
Hercules is nothing else but Vertue^ hte
mifte in Greeks is h^xaJj* quail xteit
Junonis gloria: vel quia kabo-w uti
Celebrat mt commemorat Heroas, whick
is the property os Vertue : he is drawn na~
k$d to sietv her Jimplicity ; by the dragon
are meant all manner os vices „• by the
Lions skjn^ magnanimity: by his Oaken
Club) Reafon: by its k&otttness^ the dis*
faulty and labour in seeding aster vertue :
by the three golden Apples^ three Heroicat
Vertnes 9 Moderation 7 Content and La-
bour.
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