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Parakfe, A Paradife in Greeke, fignificth a Garden of pledfure,-or place of delightes. Sohe compared the feile, wherein’ Hotsivof made bis abode; torthat earthly Paradify, in
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teatned is cought tobee'in Me/fopotaniia, the mofts fertileand pleafaunt countric in the world(as may appeare by Diodorus Syow-sss defcription o fie, in thehiftorie of Alexanders co» queft thereof) lieng “berweenetht two famous Riners(which are faid ia Scripiure to flowe outof Paradife) Lygris,and Enphy'ats,whereoficis fo denominate,? #2. 9.1.» ~ Forfake the foyle. This is no pocticall fiction, but vnfeynedly fpoken of theroet felfe, who for {peciall occafion of priuate aftayres(#s I hauebeno partly of himfelre informed) and for his more preferment;°ri nbied out of the N orthpartes ‘came into che South, as Hobbinoll in deede aduifed him privately. erovebie tad mas tach 3 Thefe kylles,that is inthe North country,where he dwete.s XC, 3s, is not.

The dates, fhe Seuth partes,whcre he now .abideth, twhich though they bee full of killes and woodes (for kentis verie hillie asd woodie, and therefore {0 called: tor Kent{hin the Saxons toong fignifieth woodie)yetin refpe& of theNofthpartes they be called dales. For indecde the North is’ counted the Kishor Country? {1093 es ,ekv Ie 9G9d Sig on

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ioufly in the mindes of {ome, But to roore that rancke opinion of Kifes oatofmennes

eartes,the trueth is,that there beno fuch thinges, nor yet the fhadowes of the thinges, but onely by aforte of balde Fryezs and knanifhe fnanclinges fo faigned, whiche as in ail other thinges, fainthat, foughtte noufell the comunon people ia ignoraunce, leaft becyog @nce acquainted with the truer of thinges,thcy woulde ia tyme fmellout theyr vntrut of theyr packed pelfe and Mafic-penic religion. But thefootheis, that whenall Italy was dift:aGe into the Fa&ions of the Geelfes and) the Gibelins, beeyng two famous boufes in Flerence,the name begsnuc through theif ere mifchieles and manye oucrages,to bee fo e@dious or rather dreadtullin the peeples carts, that it theyr Children atanye tyme were froward and wanton, they wouldefaye cotheiyhan the Guelfe orthe Gibeline came. Whiche woordes nowe from them (aSmany thinpe Pel{e) bee come into our vfage,and for Gueties and Gioelines,we fay Bijpsand Hips. Ng @lerwife then the Frenchmen vied to fay of chat velizuut capraine,theweri¢ feonrg eof Fraunce, the Lorde of Thalbot,a‘ter- warde Erle of Shrewsbune,whelt no Ite b dfuches'teti du: inthe heartes ef tie freach, that oft omes enen great armies weredefaided & be 3 the onely hearing of hys name. Inio mnchethar vie Erenohic fromens t woulde tedl then that the ralbotcommaep..

Many Graces though there bein déede wurxhtce-Cragés ore (asaforeis frzdejor at che vtmoft but foure,yce in reipeaof peer: wfigice, there my bec faydéimore. And fo Mufzusfaich, thatin Heroes cahereyPthstelanog hundred graces, And by Usat au- eee tats this fame Poec in hys Paggauutes Gta, Aly Ryndred Graces on her eyclidde

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Heplegaats Aconntrey daunce orroufide. aticeipt is, that the Graces & Nymphes dec daunce vnto the Mufes,and Pan hys maNicKtall night by Me onclight, Te fignitte the pleafauntneffe of the foyie. ey

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Cine UCiHa Hemere ; ; Springynet of water,but ofyoung trees fpringing. Callispe, atoxefaide. This {tafte is full of verie pocticali inuentiea. Lamburases, an olde kinde of inftrunent, Which of fome is fuppofedto be the Clarion. i, Pas

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