Poliphili hypnerotomachia,
Wherein he sheweth, that all humaine and
worldlie things are but a dreame, and but as vanitie it
selfe. In the setting foorth whereof many things
are figured worthie of remembrance.
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.
(a) Phæbus the Sunne.
(b) Leucothea the morning.
(c) Pyr & Eo, the horses of the Sunne.
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.