“They’ve been telling me things--dreadful things--that my memory went, and that there are years I shall never know about--years lost out of my life.”
_Logistica_ considering of my honest demaund, aunswered me incontinently.
Know this _Poliphilus_, in the Iewell was ingrauen an imperiall throne, and in the throne the mighty name of _Iehouah_ in Hebrew Letters, and before that throne, are cast downe and troden vnder foote, the Gyants which proudly haue lift vp themselues against his worde, and resisted hys will: vppon the left side of the throne is a flame of fire, vppon the right hande a horne of saluation, or Copie full of all good blessednes, and this is all that is contained in the Iewell.
ZODIAC.
A broad zone or belt of the heavens, the middle of which is the ecliptic, extending 9° on either side of it.
“Ah, you weren’t kind to keep me waiting in the cold, and break your promise,” she said at last reproachfully, in tones too low for her father’s powers of hearing.
It is divided into twelve signs, each measuring 30° along the ecliptic.