The QuincunxMifticatty Considered. 



at the middle point and Central Seat of 

 juftice. 



Nor can we omit how agreeable 

 unto this number an handfome dtvifion 

 is made in Trees and Plants, fince Pht- 

 tarcb , and the Ancients have named it 

 the Divifive Number, juftly dividing 

 the Entities of the world , many re 

 markable things in it, and alfo com 

 prehending the * ge- 

 nerall divifion of Ve- a , ^Wf or, e4"4^> 

 getables. And he J^jfolS* S 



that confiders how and that fifth which < 



moft bloflbmes of 

 Trees, and greateft 

 number of Flowers, ^^S^3 *& 

 confift of five leaves $ 5%no ^itwny yard* 

 and therein doth reft length- 

 the fetled rule of 

 nature ; So that in thole which exceed 

 there is often found, or eafily made a 

 variety ; may readily difcover how na 

 ture refts in this number., which is in 

 deed the firft reft and paufe of numera 

 tion in the fingers, the naturall Organs 

 thereof. Nor in the divifion of the 

 feet of per fe& animals doth nature ex 

 ceed 



