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| © was 500 foot. all to any creature,but contrariwife weakned the ftate of hiskingdome! And when all was done, 
the arcificer chat enterprifed and finifhed the worke, went away with the greater partof the praife 
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e& Of ¢ garden made upon Terraces, Of acittieftandingall upon varlts: 
and arches from the ground. And of the temple of vera lie | 
Dianain Ephefus. 
}€ 7 Ec read moreover of gardens made in the aire ;nay it is recorded, thatawholecittie 
VV (andnamely Thebes in Aigypt) was built fo hollow,that the Aigyptian KK, were wont 
to lead whole armies of men under the houfes of the faid cittie, in fuch fort as none 
of the inhabitants could beware thereof, yea and fodainly appeare from under the ground:a 
matveilous matter I affure you, but much more woondertfull in cafe the river Nilusalfo ran tho- 
row the mids of the faid towne. But furely of this opinion am I, that if this were true, Homer no 
doubt would have written of it, confidering he hath {pokenfo much in the praife and commen- 
#eigwixani.- dation of this cittie, andefpecially of the * hundred gates that it had, Butto fpeake of a ftately 
Pie ~ and magnificeneworke indeed, the temple of Diana inEphefus is admixable, which at thecom- 
*In the fortith Mon charges of all che princes in Afia was * two hundred and twentie yeers a building. Firft and 
ae: of the16 foremoft, they chofe amarrith ground to fet it upon, becaufe it might not be fubje@ tothe dan- 
ook, he faith 4 é 
Aso, get of earthquakes, or feare the chinkes and opening of the ground : againe, to the end that{o 
withitanding the nature of the foile given to be flipperie and unfteadfaft) they laid the firft couch 
and courfe of the ground-worke wish charcole well rammed in manner ofa pavement,and upon 
it a bed of wooll-packs : this temple carried in length throughout, four hundred twentie and five 
fuot, in breadth two hundred and twentie : in it werea hundred and feven & twentie pillarsymade 
by fo many KK. and everie one of them threefcore foot high; of which, fix and thirtie were cu- 
rioufly wrought and engraven, whereof one wasthe handyworke of Scopas : Cherfiphron the fa- 
*Afterthe — mous archite& was the chiefe devifer or mafter of the works,and who undertooke the * rearing 
s ce thereof:the greateft wonder belonging thereto was this, How thofe huge chapters of pillats,to- 
gither wich their frizes and architraves, being brought up and raifed fohigh, fhouldbe fitted to 
the fockets of their thafts : but asit isfaid, he compafied this enterprife and broughtit toeffect, 
by the means of certaine bags orfacks filled with {and; for of thefe he made a foft bed as it were 
raifed above the heads of the pillars, upon which bed refted the chapters, and ever ashe emptied 
the nethermoft, the forefaid chapters fettled downeward by little and little,and {fo at his pleafure 
hee might place them where they fhould ftand : but the greateft difficultie in this kind of worke, 
was about the verie ftontifpice and maine lintle-tree which lay over the jambes or cheeks of the 
great dore of the faid temple; for fo huge and mightie it was, that he could not weld it to Jay and. 
beftow the fame asit ought, for when hee had done what heecould, it was notto his mind, nor 
couched and fettled in the right place : whereupon the workman Cherfiphyon was much perplex- 
ed in his mind,and{o wearie of hislife, that he purpofed to make himfelfe away :but as he lay in 
bed in the night feafon,and fell aflecpe all wearie upon thefe dumpith and defperat cogitations, 
the goddefle Dzana(in whofe honour this temple was framed,and nowat the point to bereared) 
appeared fenfibly unto him in perfon,willing himto be of good cheare and refolve to live ftill, 
afluring him that thee her felfe had laid the faid ftone of the frontifpice, and couched it accor- 
dingly :which appeared true indeed the morrow morning, for it feemed thatthe vetie weight 
thereof had caufed itto fettle juft into the place, and made a joyntas Cherfiphron would have wi- 
fhed it. As touching all the other fingularities belonging to thistemple, andnamely the gorges 
ous ornaments that ferit out, they would require many volumes to difcipher and particularize f\ 
upon them ; and when all is done, little or nothing pertinent they areto theilluftration of Na- 
‘tures worke,which is the principall marke that [aime at. , 
vainglorious mind to be immortalized by a fuperfluous expence whichcould bring no good at 
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mightie and huge building of ftone-worke fhould ftand upon a fure and firme foundation (not- - 
