no Cyrus- Garde*, Or 



VuIcWy which inclofed Mars and 



jjjjjjjtf . and caufcd that unextinguifhable laugh 



! y*H<. " in heaven 5 fince the gods themlelves 



*** could not diicern it, we (hall not prie 



into it 5 Although why Vulcan bound 



them, Neptune loofed them, and Avollo 



fhould firft difcover them, might afford 



no vulgar mythologie. Heralds have 



not omitted this order or imitation 



thereof, whiles they Symbolically a- 



dorn their Scuchions with Mafcles Fu- 



filsandSaltyrs, and while they difpofed 



the figures of Ermins, and vaired coats 



in this Quincuncial method. 



The fame is not forgot by Lapidaries 

 while they cut their gemms pyramidal 

 ly, or by aequicrural triangles. Per- 

 fpedive piftures, in their Bale, Horifon, 

 and lines of diftances, cannot elcape thefe 

 Rhomboidall decufTations. Sculptors 

 in their ftrongeft (hadows, after this 

 order do draw their double Hachcs. And 

 the very Americans do naturally fall up 

 on it, in their neat and curious textures* 

 which is alfo obfervcd in the elegant ar 

 tifices of Eurtpe. But this is no law un 

 to the woof of the neat Ret uric Spider^ 



which 



