Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Francesco Colonna
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firmament from the other halfe which we doe not see.]
[Sidenote e: Hemispere is halfe the compasse of the visible heauen.] And when as the mountaines and hilles were beautifull, and the northeast winds had left of to make barraine with the sharpnesse of their blasts, the tender sprigs to disquiet the moouing reedes, the fenny Bulrush, and weake Cyprus, to torment the foulding Vines, to trouble the bending Willowe, and to breake downe the brittle Firre bowghes, vnder the hornes of the lasciuious Bull, as they do in winter. At that very houre, as the diuers coulered flowers and greene meades, at the comming of the sunne of _Hypperion_[f] feare not his burning heate, being bedued and sprinkled with the Christalline teares of the sweete morning, when as the _Halcyons_[g] vpon the leuell waues of the stil, calme, and quiet flowing seas, do build their nests in sight of the sandie shore, whereas the sorrowfull _Ero_, with scalding sighes did behold the dolorous and vngrate departure of hir swimming _Leander_[h]. [Sidenote f: Hyperion the Sunne.] [Sidenote g: Halcyons are certaine byrds which building near the shore vpon the waues there will be no storme vntill the young be hatched.] [Sidenote h: Leander a young man of Abydos, who in swimming ouer Hellespont (a narow sea) by Byzantium, which parteth Europ from Asia) to Sestus, was in the sight of his louer Ero of Sestus drowned, which she seeing, threw hir self down into the sea, and died with him.] |
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