The one imperfect, mortall, fœminine;
Th’other immortall, perfect, masculine,
And twixt them both a quadrate was the base,
Proportioned equally by seuen and nine;
Nine was the circle set in heauens place,
All which compacted made a goodly diapase[740].
Therein two gates were placed seemly well: xxiii
The one before, by which all in did pas,
Did th’other far in workmanship excell;
For not of wood, nor of enduring bras,