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_Errors and anomalies noted by transcriber:_
This e-text is based on a facsimile edition made from a single copy of
the 1592 original. In some places, text is illegible or missing.
"The Italian version" refers to the 1499 text. At time of preparation,
page images of this book were available at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/HP/hyp000.htm
and linked pages. Note that the 1592 English translation covers just
under half the Italian text. The Italian was consulted in some cases
of uncertain readings in the English. The sidenotes have no Italian
equivalent.
Oddities of punctuation are as in the original, but missing full stops
at paragraph-end have been supplied.
The text often prints [ae] in place of [oe], especially when italicized:
Ph[ae]bus; Cr[ae]sus (twice); C[ae]us
The spellings _Pasiph[ae]_ (for Pasiphae or Pasiphae:) and _Androdus_
(for Androclus or Androcles) were also left unchanged.
u for n, n for u (inverted letter shown with asterisk):
draperie of double _Achan*this_
I behelde _Leu*cothoe_
inclau*strede and compassede about
and lose my lou*e
courteou*s young women
haue you* not seene it
circulatin*g iustly
most pretiou*s vessell
The squ*are base court
skinnes, statu*es, tytles, and trophes
her name was _Mn*emosina_
vppon eu*erie of those Portes and Gates
the first tower or moun*t
discouered and come vn*to
halfe speare; Hemispere
_spellings from Sidenotes in original_
Sidenote h: (a narow sea by Byzantium...
_text reads "(a narow sea)" with extra )_
Sidenote b: Caucasus a mightie hill
_text reads "d" for "b"_
the assending the turning stayers
_so in original: "then assending"?_
neuer heard of this:
_text reads "hard"_
...a horsse of Colos. [__________] of an Oliphant, but especially of a
most rare and straunge Porche._
_gap in printed text is about 12 letters wide. Italian text:_
...uno caballo, de uno iacente colosso, de uno elephanto, ma
praecipuamente de una elegantissima porta.
seene or crediblie reported
_text reads "crebiblie"_
with a long waued maine
_text reads "maime"_
Sidenote: None liue in this world
_text reads "in in"_
studdes hanging iewels, stories, and deuises,
_not an error for "stones". Italian text:_
di molti sigilli, & bulle, & historiette & fictione
the vulgar and common sort of mannalists
_so in original: "manualists"?_
courteous, gentle, bening, tractable
_so in original: "benign"?_
and wrapt ouer with the same foliature and leafe worke
_text reads "wirh"_
an aporne of a Goates skinne
_so in original: "aprone"?_
offered yoong and tender sonne
_so in original: "offered hir"?_
Sidenote: The bones next the qack in the wing
_so in original: "back"?_
this Epigram in Cappitall Greeke Letters
_text reads "Creeke"_
vppon a ground of Iasul or blew Saphyrs
_so in original: "lasul"?_
with her haire trans-formed
_text reads "heare"_
in the disposing thereof as aforesaide
_text reads "aforesaidel"_
corrospondent and agreeing with
_spelling as in original_
Sidenote: A petiment in corrupt English.
_reading "petiment" conjectural_
Sidenote: Anaglipts are cunning carues and grauers.
_reading conjectural: beginning of each line is missing_
_naglipts / _e cunning / _arues and / _rauers
effected by many seuerall workmen
_text reads "wookmen"_
_Bagistanus_ must giue place
_text reads "geue"_
although the Obelisk of Iupiter
_text reads "Obelist"_
asosciated with curious workemanship
_text has "aso/scociated" at page break, but catchword is "sciated"_
bright shining lyke goalde
_reading unclear, checked against Italian_
his Sonnes _Cadus_, _Foenice_, and _Cilicia_
_all forms as in original_
theyr actions and degrees tightlye expressed
_so in original: "rightlye"?_
with exquisite / parergie and shadowing Waters, Fountaines, Mountaines,
Hilles, woodes, / and beasts, in theyr naturall coulours, and distante
one from an other, / with opposite light.
_layout of original ambiguous, with possible paragraph break after
"shadowing". Italian reads:_
Cum gli exquisiti parergi. Aque. fonti. monti. colli. boscheti.
animali. di prauato il coloramento cum la distantia, & cum il lume
opposito...
shaking her trisulked and three parted tongue
_so in original: "trifulked"?_
like and Eele
_so in original: "an"_
sorrowe more abounding then poore _Pscyphes_
_so in original: "Psyches"?_
And who shal be the possor
_so in original: "possessor"?_
reassuming and gatheringtogether
_"a" in "gathering" printed upside-down_
a verie pleasaunt sighte and counttie
_so in original: "countrie"?_
for Angles and noble personages
_spelling as in original_
for it was rownd about compassed
_text reads "it it"_
a I passed on
_reading unclear: may be "as I"_
I beheld _Egiplie hierogliphies_
_so in original: "Egiptie"?_
did containe an elegant Cigrued Nimph
_reading unclear_
vppon a conuenient frame
_text reads "conenient"_
the waters did striue togither and meete
_text reads "meetes"_
_Prapitiles_ neuer perfourmed the lyke
_so in original: "Praxiteles"?_
a most bewtifull Ladye in hir sleep
_text reads "in in"_
and retract towardes hir
_text reads "towares"_
I heard a singing company
_text reads "hard"_
a great applause among the pleasant flowers
_text unclear; "among" conjectural_
the vppermost of curled white sendall
_text reads "vppermst"_
stayed theyr nimphish gates
_text reads "nimpish"_
(for they seemed to mee...
_text reads ")for they"_
nowe vsurped and tyrannized by the insolent Spanyard
_phrase not present in Italian text_
sweete pronuntiation
_text reads "pronuntiaon"_
Achol ... Genshra
_names elsewhere spelled "Achoe" and "Geussia" as in Italian_
compassed about with a Coronice.
_full stop invisible, but implied by spacing_
statues of fine mettal
_text reads "scatnes" with inverted "u"_
a goodly Fountaine of cleare water, spinnyng from the verie toppe as it
were to the foundation, whiche
_commas invisible, but implied by spacing_
and turning rounde.
_full stop invisible, but implied by spacing_
had made theyr habitation there
_text reads "habitaon"_
embost, chased, and engrauen
_text reads "chafed"_
of the sumptuous Fountaine,
_closing ) invisible in original_
checkers or scutuls and Trigons.
_full stop invisible, but implied by spacing_
and in the same two images
_text reads "and and"_
the roofe whereof
_text reads "roote"_
the Matrone _Muemosnia_
_text reads "Muemosnia"_
agreeable and fitting
_text reads "agreebale"_
their solacious and magnificent pleasures
_text reads "magnicifient"_
After that she said .... bee committed
_first four lines of paragraph, at page-end, repeated at beginning
of following page_
when he is in the malignant taile
_reading unclear: Italian has "cauda"_
Streight before the triumphant Queene
_text reads "Sreight"_
seuen vpon a side in a Nimphish apparrel
_text reads "Nimpish"_
Then there at euerie chaunge of course, two _Edeabriees_
_reading unclear: Italian has "domicelle edeatrice"_
And by this appoynted order, there was continually heard melodious
soundes, and pleasaunt harmonies, sweete concords with delightfull
Musicke presented, odoriferous perfume smelt, and stately viandes
plentifully fedde of.
_reading conjectural: beginning of last three lines missing_
And by this appoynted order, there was continually heard
_____dious soundes, and pleasaunt harmonies, sweete con
_____with delightfull Musicke presented, odoriferous per
_____smelt, and stately viandes plentifully fedde of.
_Italian reads:_
continuamente si udiuano gratissimi soni, si auscultaua lepidissimi
concenti, si persentiua delectabile melodia, iocundissimo
odoramento, se exhauriua, & lautissima satietate suauissimamente
gustando si receueua.
Manna, Pineapple kernels, Rose water
_so in original: Italian has "nuclei pinei". On page 57v, "seme de
pine" is translated "seedes of Pines"._
the floures of Gessamin
_text reads "flloures"_
vpon the pauement),
_closing ) missing in original_
and so delightfull to the sences
_text reads "delighfull"_
shell, fish, Dactilus, with Pistacke, Nut kernels
_all commas in original_
The vpper vessell
_text reads "ypper"_
a most excellent daunce or game
_text reads "excel/cellent" at line break_
The delightfull presence of the Nymphes
_text reads "delighfull"_
Secretaries, wee tearme them Bishoppes, and two Knights
_"wee tearme them Bishoppes" added by translator_
they apparrelled in gold
_text reads "thy"_
shee is rightly called _Thelosia_.
_spelling as in original: elsewhere "Telosia"_
I would haue thee to vnderstande
_text reads "vnderhande"_
shee transformeth her selfe against the haire
_so in original: Italian has "uersipelle"_
woorke-manshippe
_hyphen in original at mid-line_
the conditionate state of this maruellous feate
_reading unclear: text looks like "seate" but Italian has "fito"_
wherein I haue satis-fied him
_hyphen in original at mid-line_
_Tarnia_ the Queene of the _Scythians_
_so in original: Italian has "Tarina"_
By the Ower looke vpon this
_text reads "Owe"_
For thys beeing satis-fied
and that I am not yet / satis-fied
_both hyphens in original_
Signifying thereby
_text reads "Sgnifying"_
The Gate vppon my right hand
_so in original: Italian has same wording with same illustration_
her name was _Thende_
_so in original: Italian has "Theude"_
The fift, _Epiania_.
_so in original: Italian has "Etiania"_
or the fayre _Psyches_
_text reads "the the"_
the shady Wooddes of _Mensunlone_
_so in original: Italian has "Mesanlone"_
Shee tooke me by the left hande
_text reads "toooke"_
bridling my inconuenient desires
_text reads "incouenient"_
and my subdued heart
_text reads "haert"_
these had a consort of liuncyers winde Instruments, full of spirite.
_reading unclear: possibly "liuncyets". Italian text:_
... cum mirabili & ueterrimi istrumenti da flato concordi, & cum
incredibili spiriti expressi
Violets, Cowslops, Melilots
_so in original_
the faire Nymph _Lara_ sorting with _Argiphon_
_so in original: "sporting"?_
[Sidenote A: This verse consisted of _Strophe_, _Aristophe_, and
_Epodus_.]
_so in original: Antistrophe?_
_Lyndens_ or teile trees, in Latin _Tili[ae]_
_reading unclear_
reaching from Germany
_reading conjectural: "r" in "from" invisible_
[Sidenote A: _Hamadryades_ were nymphs of the wood and _Symenides_]
[Sidenote B: _Vertumnus_ the God of fruits.]
_unlabeled sidenotes with no space at line end: may be one or two_
a great square stone like an aulter
_text reads "and aulter"_
the clouds full of haile.
_full stop invisible, but implied by spacing_
[Sidenote B: ... Mausolus king of Cania.]
_so in original_
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Inscriptions and Greek:
The Greek text uses an asymmetrical form of Pi that is easily confused
with Gamma, and an Upsilon that resembles Tau. The Arabic text could not
be transcribed.
+LICHA SOLIBIKOS LITHODOMOS O:RTHOSEN ME+
_The first Lambda is upside-down. Probable correct reading:_
+LICHAS HO LIBIKOS LITHODOMOS O:RTHO:SEN ME.+
+GUMNOS E:N. EI ME: AN THE:RI-
ON EMEKALUPSEN. ZE:TEI. HEU-
RE:SE:DE. EASON ME.+
_Probable correct reading:_
+GUMNOS E:N, EI ME: AN THE:RI-/ON EME KALUPSEN. ZE:TEI. HEU-
RE:SE: DE. EASON ME.+
NVDVSESSEM, BES-
TIA NIME TEXIS-
SET, QVAERE, ET
INVE NIES. MESI-
NITO.
_Reading with corrected spacing and punctuation:_
NVDVS ESSEM, BES-/TIA NI ME TEXIS-/SET. QVAERE, ET
INVENIES. ME SI-/NITO
+HOSTIS EI. ALBEEK TOU DE TOU
THE:SAUROU, OSNON ANA RESKOI.
PARAINO: DE HO:S LABE:IS TE:N
KEPHALE:N, ME: HAPTOU EO:MATOS.+
_Probable correct reading:_
+HOSTIS EI, LABE EK TOUDE TOU / THE:SAUROU, HOSON ANARESKOI.
PARAINO: DE HO:S LABE:IS TE:N / KEPHALE:N, ME: HAPTOU SO:MATOS.+
...QVANTVNCVN-
QUE LIBVERIT
HVIVS THESAVRI
SVME AD MONEO...
_Correct spacing: ADMONEO._
+THEOIS APHRODITIKAI TO: O: EROTI DIONISOS YKAI
DE: ME:TRA EK TO:N IDIO:N MYTRI
SUMPATHESTATE:+
_Probable correct reading:_
+THEOIS APHRODITE:I KAI TO:I HUIO:I ERO:TI DIONUSOS KAI
DE:ME:TRA EK TO:N IDIO:N ME:TRI / SUMPATHESTATE:
+AEI SPEU DE BRADEOS+
_Probable correct reading:_
+AEI SPEUDE BRADEO:S+
+PANTA TO KADI+
_Probable correct reading:_
+PANTA TOKADI+
+PANTO:N TO KADI+
_Probable correct reading:_
+PANTO:N TOKADI+
+SUMOIPL UKUSTEKAIPKROS+
_Probable correct reading:_
+SUMOI GLUKUS TE KAI PIKROS+