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tyme is ended. The motion whereby the nature of our Sa- 

 viour is manifested is every moment to come forth out of that 

 place where he is pourtraeted, to signifie that he carefully 

 provideth for all ages, and lovingly presenteth him selfe at all 

 tymes. This is, Right Worshipfull Sir, in breef, the summe of 

 that which is in the fabricke of the clocke contayned, wherein 

 lie hidden more misteries then I have manifested unto you in 

 theise fewe lines,, and yet so mutch hath been uttered as de- 

 serveth a duble and treble consideracion, for in this so many 

 divers partes is a wonderfull consent and agreement ; for heer 

 the foure men doe soe distinguishe the continewaunce of 

 the whole woorld, as the foure seasons doe the yeare ; the 

 ages doe the life of man, and the foure quarters doe the 

 moone and the hower ; and yeat all theise have and 



figured by death, all theise have originall motion by Christ, 

 which is there lif, figured forth by the pellicau, and all 

 theise have been garded and maintained by our Saviour, the 

 laste parte of the worke. There is also the creation of man, 

 the fall of man, and the restoringe of man, and his resurrec- 

 tion, painted in the lower parte of the table, over the eclipses 

 of the soonne and the moone. The cocke on the left hand 

 dothe croe at three of the clocke in the afternoone. This was 

 not devised of late, but kept in the church as a monument of 

 antiquitie ; for in tymes past they used, when the passion of Christ 

 was celebrated, to make this cocke croe at sutch tyme as they 

 reade in the Evangelist, Peter three tymes deniall of Christe, 

 the which savoreth nothinge of the invention of the rest of 

 the woorke. The other side is only an artificiall steare 

 whereby men maie behould the conveyances of the motions 

 within. In the mindes of the magistrates that fournisshed 

 the deviser with habilitie to make shewe of his skill by mag- 

 nificent expenses, there is to be considered a desyre to conse- 

 crat the memoriall of there names to perpetuall admiration of 

 succeadinge ages, imitatinge therebie the examples of many 

 kinges and princes that emptied there treasures on such he- 

 roicall woorkes. Some in buildinge of temples ; some by in- 

 ventinge of warlike engins ; some by devisinge spatious and 

 ample theatres ; some by convayinge miraculously waters by 

 aquaeductes ; some by buildinge of bathes ; by bridges ; by 

 gardens ; some by piramides ; some men by obeliscy, and 

 some by measuringe of tyme by clepsydrae, clockes and hower- 

 glasses and sutch like, that to recite all the other kindes of 

 inventions weare to you troublesome and to me laborious. 

 The great Temple of Diana in Ephesus did contayne in length 

 foure hundred and thirtie twoe feet, in breadth one hundred 

 and twenty, was supported by one hundred and twenty seaven 



