and length, for that purpose accordinglye proportioned) full of
streaming vaines, sondry coulered, and diuerslye spotted, maruelous
pleasant to the eye, in infinite commixtures, confusedly disposed.

Vpon the brest or formost part, and end of the marble base, that was
opposite against the porch, there was a garland of greene marble, like
the leaues of bitter _Alisander_, commixt with dead leaues of
Maydenweede, of a hayre coulour, within the which there was a smoothe
round, pure, white stone, wherein was ingrauen these capitall Romaine
letters.

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INFOELI/CI/TATIS]

At the hinder end in like sort was a garland of deadly Woolfwoort, with
this inscription, _Equus infælicitatis_. And vpon the right side there
was ingrauen certaine figures, shapes, and representments of men and
women dauncing together, byformed or faced, the formost smiling, the
hynmost weeping:[A] and dauncing in a ring, with theyr armes spred
abrode, and hanfasted man, with man and woman with woman. One arme of
the man vnder that of the woman, and the other aboue, and thus closing
together, and houlding by the hands, they floung about one after
another, that alwayes still in one place, a smyling countenance
incountered a foregoing sad. Their number was seauen and seauen,
so perfectly and sweetely counterfeited with liuelie motions, their
vestures whisking vp and flying abroad, that the workman could not be
accused of any imperfection, but that one had not a liuely voyce to