_The Author beginneth his _Hypnerotomachia_, to set downe the hower
and time when in his sleepe it seemed to him that hee was in a quiet
solitarie desart, and vninhabited plaine, and from thence afterward
how he entered vnaduisedly before he was aware, with great feare,
into a darke obscure and vnfrequented wood._


The discription of the morning.

What houre as _Phœbus_[a] issuing foorth, did bewtifie with brightnesse
the forhead of _Leucothea_[b], and appearing out of the Occean waues,
not fully shewing his turning wheeles, that had beene hung vp, but
speedily with his swift horses _Pyrous_ & _Eous_[c], hastning his
course, and giuing a tincture to the Spiders webbes, among the greene
leaues and tender prickles of the Vermilion Roses, in the pursuite
whereof he shewed himselfe most swift & glistering, now vpon the neuer
resting and still moouing waues, he crysped vp his irradient heyres.

[Sidenote a: Phæbus the Sunne.]

[Sidenote b: Leucothea the morning.]

[Sidenote c: Pyr & Eo, the horses of the Sunne.]

Vppon whose vprising, euen at that instant, the vnhorned Moone
dismounted hir selfe, losing from hir Chariot hir two horses, the one
white and the other browne, and drewe to the Horrison[d] different from
the Hemisphere[e] from whence she came.

[Sidenote d: Horison a circle deuiding the halfe speare of the