_Ex labore Deo naturæ sacrifica liberaliter paulatim reduces animum Deo
subiectum. Firmam custodiam vitæ tuæ, misericorditer gubernando tenebit,
incolumemque seruabit._

Letting passe this most excellent rare, strange, and secret deuise and
worke: _L_et vs returne againe to the prodigious horse, whose head was
leane and little, of a small proportion and yet fitting the body, which
seemed continually staring, fieerce and impatient, the flesh in his
muscles trembling and quaking, in such sort as that hee seemed rather
aliue than a fained imitation, with this Greeke worde in his face ΓΕΝΕΑ.
There were also other great peeces and fragments of diuers and sundry
lineaments among the broken and decayed ruines, which I looked not on,
still running and sliding, time giuing me onely leaue to consider and
peruse these foure rare wonders, the porch or gate, the horse, the
Colose, and the Elephant.

Oh reuerend arthists of times past, what despite hath gotten the vpper
hand of your cunning that the same is buried with you, and none left for
vs to inherite in this age,

At length being come to this ancient porch, a worke woorthie the looking
vpon maruellously composed by exquisite rules, and by art notably
beautified, with diuers and sundry sorts of cuttings, which did inflame
a desire in me to vnderstand and finde out the lineaments and practise
of the architect. I beganne after this maner, making a square from the
two collumnes on either side in a perfect sort, in the which I tooke the
due proportion of the whole porch.

A tetragon figure A. B. C. D. diuided by three lines straight, and three