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Of various wherein by diagonal lines the intersection was 



patterns in rectangular; accommodable unto plantations 

 gardening 



of large growing trees, and we must not deny 



ourselves the advantage of this order; yet shall 

 we chiefly insist upon that of Curtius and Porta, 

 in their brief description hereof. Wherein the 

 decussis is made within in alongilateral square, 

 with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the 

 intersection, and so upon progression making a 

 rhombus or lozenge figuration, which seemeth 

 very agreeable unto the original figure. Answer- 

 able whereunto we observe the decussated char- 

 acters in many consulary coins, and even in 

 those of Constantine and his sons, which pre- 

 tend their pattern in the sky; the crucigerous 

 ensign carried this figure, not transversely or 

 rectangularly intersected, but in a decussation, 

 after the form of an Andrean or Burgundian 

 cross, which answereth this description. 



Of this quincuncial ordination the ancients 

 practised much, discoursedlittle ; and the mod- 

 erns have nothingenlarged ; which he that more 

 nearly considereth, in the form of its square 

 rhombus, and decussation, with the several 

 commodities, mysteries, parallelisms, and re- 



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