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ding peece there was of his making, with adevife appendanttoit, for to be fet tooand taken of G 
bya vice, and the fame refembled /ixes and Diomedes, ftealing the Palladium out of the-tem- 
ple of -Adénerva in Troy. The fame workeman devifed to fet into little cups, prettie images or 
mannikins refembling cookes, which he tearmed Magirifcia, but fo finely and delicatly wrought 
they were, thatthe patterns of them could norbe taken out in any mould, without hurting and 
{poiling; fofubject were they to any outward injuries in the handling. Furthermore, Teucer was 
famous in his time, for his dexteritie and lighthand in {hallow emboffing. Well, inas greatre- 
queft as thefe artificers were in times paft, yet this cunning decaied all ona fodaine,anderew — 
fo farre out of ufe, that noching now commendeth fuch peeces of worke, but onely antiquities 
in which regard, howneare foever they bee worne with continuall handling, in fo muchas the 
fhapes and proportions of the imagerie engraven cannot be difcerned, yet great ftoreisferby 
any fuch antique plate wherefoverit isto be had. 
Over and befides, ic is to benoted, that filver will ruft in medicinable waters,fuch as fland up- 
on fome efpeciall mine; yea the fale aire breathing from them, is able to infect it :aswe may {ee 
inthe mediterranean parts of Spaine far remote from the fea, | 
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Alfo, in mines of goldand filver, there are ingendrédcertaine minerall colours ferving for ~ 
painters ;towit, * Siland Azur. As for Sil, to fpeake properly, it isakind of muddie flime: the 
belt of thiskind is called Atticum :and everie pound of itis woorth two and thirtie deniers. The 
next in goodnefle, ts hard as {tone or marble,and carrieth hardly halfe the price of the other na- 
med Atticum, There isa third fort, of afaftand compact fubftance, which becaufe itis broughr 
out of the lfland Scyros, fome call Scyricum: and yet of late verely, wee have it out of Achaia 
alfo,and thisis the Sil that painters ufe for their fhadows:this is fold after two fefterces the pound, 
As for the Sil which commeth out of Fraunce, called the Bright Sil, itis fold in everie pound 
two affes leffethan that of Achaia, This Sil, andthe firft called Acticum, painters ufe to givea 
luftre and light withall : but the fecond kind, which ftandeth upon marble, isnot emploied but 
in tablements and chapters of pillers, for thatthe marble grit within it, doth wichftand the bit- 
ternefle of the lime. This Sil is digged likewife out of certaine hills not pafttwentie miles from 
the cittie of Rome: afterwards, they burne it, and by hat means doe fophifticat and fellit for 
the faft or flat kind named Preflum: but that it is not true & naturall, but calcined, appeareth evi- 
ently by the bitterneffe that it ath, and for that itis refolved into powder. 
Cuap, XIIk 
eo Of * Sil,* Caruleum, Neflorianum, and Calum, Alfo, that allthefe 
kinds keepe not the [ame priceeverie ycere. 
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onely that of Athens in their piGtures. The age enfuing, emploiedit much in giving light 
unto their colours, but that of Scyros and Lydia for {hadowes. Asforthe Lydian ochre, it 
was commonly boughtat Sardis, the capital cittie of Lydia, butnow it is growne out of allre- 
membrane, 
As touching 
Toten and c%ycon were the firft painters who wrought with Sil or Ochre, burthey ufed 
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Cetuleum or Azur, itis a certaine fandie grit or powder :of which, in oldtime 
there were knowne three kinds :to wit, the Zgyptian,moft commended above the reft:the Scy- 
thian, which is eafie to bee diffolved and tempered, andin the grinding turneth into foureco- 
Jours; namely, the Azure, which is of a pallet colour, called therefore the whiter; the blacker 
Azur, of a deeper blew; there isthe Azur alfo of a grofler fubftance; and the fourcwof a finer. 
The Cyprian Azur is preferred before that of Scythia. Over and above thefe Azurs beforena- 
med, we have fome from Puteoliand Spaine, where they becartificiall, andthey havetakento — 
making it, of akind of fand. All the forts of thefe Azurs, receive firfta dye, and are boiled with. 
acertaine hearbe appropriat to it,called Oad, the colour and juice whereof Azuris aptto drinke 
in andreceive. Asforallthe preparation and making of it otherwife, it is the famethatbelon- 
gethto Chryfocolla or Borax. Of Azur there is madethae powder which we call in Latine Lo- jy 
mentum, for which purpofe it muft bee firft punned, pulverized, and wafhed; and thisis whiter 
~ indeed than the Azurit felfe : folditis after three and twentie deniers the pound, whereas Azur 
may be bought for eighteene. Herewith they ufe to paint walls chat bee overcaft with plaftres,for 
ling it will not abide. Of late daies there is akind of Azur growne into requeft, called.Neftorias — 
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