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riding in a chariot of vine branches, Silenus ridinge beside 

 him on an Asse, and the Bacchce or Satyres shaking to- 

 getheer their staulkie Javelines and Paulmers. 1 By reason 

 of their leaping they are called Scirti, and the anticke or 

 satyrical dauncing, Sicinnis, and they also sometimes Sicin- 

 nistce ; sometimes ^Egipance ; wherefore Pliny reporteth, 

 that among the western e Ethiopians, there are certain 

 little hilles full of the Satirique JEgipance, and that, in the 

 night-time they use great fires, piping and dansing, with 

 a wonderful noise of Tymbrels and Cymbals ; and so also 

 in Atlas amongest the Moores, whereof there was no foot- 

 ing, remnant, or appearance, to be found in the daytime. 



"... There are also Satires in the Eastern moun- 

 taines of India, in the country of the Cartaduli, and in 

 the province of the Comari and Coruda, but the Cebi 

 spoken of before, bred in Ethiopia, are not Satyres 

 (though faced like them :) nor the Prasyan Apes, which 

 resemble Satyres in short beards. There are many 

 kindes of these Satyres better distinguished by names 

 than any properties naturall known unto us. Such are 

 the ^Egipance, before declared, Nymphes of the Poets, 

 Fawnes, Pan and Silent, which, in time of the Gentiles were 

 worshipped for Gods ; and it was one part of their religion 

 to set up the picture of a Satyre at their dores and gates, 

 for a remedy against the bewitching of envious persons. 



"... Satyres have no humaine conditions in them, 

 nor any other resemblance of men besides their outward 

 shape ; though Solinus speakes of them like as of men. 

 They carry their meate under their chin as in a store 

 house, and from thence being hungry, they take it forth 

 to eat, making it ordinary with them every day, which 

 is but annuall in the Formica; lions ; being of very unquiet 



i Thyrsi. 



