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their vailts of diveffe colours and workes, every ofieac- 

 doling to his dignity and officcjhavirig garlands vp6ft 

 their heads, And chaines of flowers about their neckes: 

 after them came their gods and goddeffes whom they 

 wOrfhipt of diverfe figures , attired in the fame livery, 

 then putting themfelves in order about thofc morfells 

 & peeces of pafte , they vfed certaine ceremonies with 

 fihgitig and dauncing . By meanes whereof they were 

 blelTed and confecrated for the fle(h and bones of this 

 idoll. 



This ceremony and blefling ( whereby they were 

 taken for the flefli and bones of the idoll) being ended, 

 they honoured thofe peccesin the fame forte as their 

 god. Then came foorth the facrificers, whobegannc 

 thefecrificeofmeh, in the manner as hath beene (po 

 ken, and that day they did facrificea greater number 

 than at anyother time, for that it was the moft folemnc 

 fe^fttheyobferved. The facrifices being ended, all the 

 yoong men and maides came out of the temple attired 

 as before, and being placed in order and ranke one di- 

 re&lyagainft another, theydauncedbydrummes the 

 which founded in praife of the feaft , and of the idoll 

 which they did celebrate. To which (bng all the moft 

 ancient and greateft noble men did anfwer, dauncing 

 about them , making a great circle as their vfe is , the 

 yoongmen arid maides rertiayningahvayes in the mid- 

 deft. All the citty came to this goodly fpecSacIe, and 

 there was a commatindemcnt very ftridly obfcrved 

 throughout all the land, that the day of the feaft of the 

 idoll r/V^/r/wte/^they fhould eate no other meate 3 btit 

 this pafte with hotly ,vvhcreof the idoll was made. And 

 thisfliould be eaten atthepoiht of day , & thry fhould 

 drincke no AK v aternorjiny otherthing till after n-one: 



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