Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
and so delightfull to the sences
_text reads "delighfull"_
shell, fish, Dactilus, with Pistacke, Nut kernels
_all commas in original_
The vpper vessell
_text reads "ypper"_
a most excellent daunce or game
_text reads "excel/cellent" at line break_
The delightfull presence of the Nymphes
_text reads "delighfull"_
Secretaries, wee tearme them Bishoppes, and two Knights
_"wee tearme them Bishoppes" added by translator_
they apparrelled in gold
_text reads "thy"_
shee is rightly called _Thelosia_.
_spelling as in original: elsewhere "Telosia"_
I would haue thee to vnderstande
_text reads "vnderhande"_
shee transformeth her selfe against the haire
_so in original: Italian has "uersipelle"_
woorke-manshippe
_hyphen in original at mid-line_
the conditionate state of this maruellous feate
_reading unclear: text looks like "seate" but Italian has "fito"_
wherein I haue satis-fied him
_hyphen in original at mid-line_
_Tarnia_ the Queene of the _Scythians_
_so in original: Italian has "Tarina"_
By the Ower looke vpon this
_text reads "Owe"_
For thys beeing satis-fied
and that I am not yet / satis-fied
_both hyphens in original_
Signifying thereby
_text reads "Sgnifying"_
The Gate vppon my right hand
_so in original: Italian has same wording with same illustration_
her name was _Thende_
_so in original: Italian has "Theude"_
The fift, _Epiania_.
_so in original: Italian has "Etiania"_
or the fayre _Psyches_
_text reads "the the"_
the shady Wooddes of _Mensunlone_
_so in original: Italian has "Mesanlone"_
Shee tooke me by the left hande
_text reads "toooke"_
bridling my inconuenient desires
_text reads "incouenient"_
and my subdued heart
_text reads "haert"_
these had a consort of liuncyers winde Instruments, full of spirite.
_reading unclear: possibly "liuncyets". Italian text:_
... cum mirabili & ueterrimi istrumenti da flato concordi, & cum
incredibili spiriti expressi
Violets, Cowslops, Melilots
_so in original_
the faire Nymph _Lara_ sorting with _Argiphon_
_so in original: "sporting"?_
[Sidenote A: This verse consisted of _Strophe_, _Aristophe_, and
_Epodus_.]
_so in original: Antistrophe?_
_Lyndens_ or teile trees, in Latin _Tili[ae]_
_reading unclear_
reaching from Germany
_reading conjectural: "r" in "from" invisible_
[Sidenote A: _Hamadryades_ were nymphs of the wood and _Symenides_]
[Sidenote B: _Vertumnus_ the God of fruits.]
_unlabeled sidenotes with no space at line end: may be one or two_
a great square stone like an aulter
_text reads "and aulter"_
the clouds full of haile.
_full stop invisible, but implied by spacing_
[Sidenote B: ... Mausolus king of Cania.]
_so in original_
* * * * *
Inscriptions and Greek:
The Greek text uses an asymmetrical form of Pi that is easily confused
with Gamma, and an Upsilon that resembles Tau. The Arabic text could not
be transcribed.
+LICHA SOLIBIKOS LITHODOMOS O:RTHOSEN ME+
_The first Lambda is upside-down. Probable correct reading:_
+LICHAS HO LIBIKOS LITHODOMOS O:RTHO:SEN ME.+
+GUMNOS E:N. EI ME: AN THE:RI-
ON EMEKALUPSEN. ZE:TEI. HEU-
RE:SE:DE. EASON ME.+
_Probable correct reading:_
+GUMNOS E:N, EI ME: AN THE:RI-/ON EME KALUPSEN. ZE:TEI. HEU-
RE:SE: DE. EASON ME.+
NVDVSESSEM, BES-
TIA NIME TEXIS-
SET, QVAERE, ET
INVE NIES. MESI-
NITO.
_Reading with corrected spacing and punctuation:_
NVDVS ESSEM, BES-/TIA NI ME TEXIS-/SET. QVAERE, ET
INVENIES. ME SI-/NITO
+HOSTIS EI. ALBEEK TOU DE TOU
THE:SAUROU, OSNON ANA RESKOI.
PARAINO: DE HO:S LABE:IS TE:N
KEPHALE:N, ME: HAPTOU EO:MATOS.+
_Probable correct reading:_
+HOSTIS EI, LABE EK TOUDE TOU / THE:SAUROU, HOSON ANARESKOI.
PARAINO: DE HO:S LABE:IS TE:N / KEPHALE:N, ME: HAPTOU SO:MATOS.+
...QVANTVNCVN-
QUE LIBVERIT
HVIVS THESAVRI
SVME AD MONEO...
_Correct spacing: ADMONEO._
+THEOIS APHRODITIKAI TO: O: EROTI DIONISOS YKAI
DE: ME:TRA EK TO:N IDIO:N MYTRI
SUMPATHESTATE:+
_Probable correct reading:_
+THEOIS APHRODITE:I KAI TO:I HUIO:I ERO:TI DIONUSOS KAI
DE:ME:TRA EK TO:N IDIO:N ME:TRI / SUMPATHESTATE:
+AEI SPEU DE BRADEOS+
_Probable correct reading:_
+AEI SPEUDE BRADEO:S+
+PANTA TO KADI+
_Probable correct reading:_
+PANTA TOKADI+
+PANTO:N TO KADI+
_Probable correct reading:_
+PANTO:N TOKADI+
+SUMOIPL UKUSTEKAIPKROS+
_Probable correct reading:_
+SUMOI GLUKUS TE KAI PIKROS+