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Salmon, William
Polygraphice: Or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming: In Four Books ... To which is added A Discourse of Perspective and Chiromancy — London, 1675

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296 Polygraphices. Lib.4*
picked riding on a horse galloping =, with which swisl-
ness (he seems to pais invisile ■> alter whom followcth
-JDcjiiny with great wrath and fury, holding in her hand
an Iron bow, and aiming to strike Fortune at the
heart.
By her smst galloping, if signisied her mutability See
Secl.^ Chap.2%> whereJke is taken m one os the powers*

CHAP. XXIV,
How Vertue, Truth, Peace, Honour, Fame and
Opinion were depicted*
t, X 7 Ertuc in Greece was made in the form of a ?il-
V grim, like a grave and austere woman i sitting
alone upon a four squared lione, melancholy, and lean-
ing her head upon her knees.
Being a Pilgrim3JhewsJhe hath no rejiing place, secure
abode-, or certain habitation upon the earth: the sorm of her
sitting-, Jhews her lise to be full of troubles-) dangers, crojjes^
and mijeries. See the i. Sett, of Chap, i p. of the i.Boo^
H&cangusta via horrendis scatet undique monstri%
Et vita innumeris est interclusa periclis.
Sed tamen incolumes hie vircus*ducit alumnos
Extrema ut vitent, ne pes hinc inde vacillet.
Proclamat longe spes, hie suntdigna laboris
Prsemia, & excipient mordaces gaudia curas.
Fax, sinceraquies nullo temeranda dolore,
Laetitia hie habitant longum. sine fine, per xvum.
Fierce Monsiers do this narrow parage bounds
And deadly dangers it encompafs round
Tct virtue doth her Followers jafely guide ^
Lest they fhonld go ajhay on either side.
 
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