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Vernal Equinox
Perhaps not a very clear illustration of an equinox, but still a pretty woodcut of the Sun’s rays reaching the Earth. |
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April
April is a youth with curly hair and carrying a garland. He wears a tunic and sandals, with a cape billowing out behind him in the wind, and he rides a bucking bull that is jumping up out of a puddle, reminding us that [in England] April is a season [...] [more...] |
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May
A poem beneath the picture reads as follows: [more...] |
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July
A naked and barefoot bearded man rides a lion, holding reins. He carries a two-handed scythe strapped to his back, with a sickle at his side, and laughs, with his right [...] [more...] |
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August and Virgo
“AUGUST The eigth wsa August, being rich array’d In garment all of gold downe to the ground: Yet rode he not, but led a lovely mayd Forth by the lily hand, the which was crown’d With eares of corne [wheat], and full her hand was found. That was the righteous Virgin, which of old Liv’d heare on earth, and plenty made abound; But after wrong was lov’d, and justice solde, She left th’ unrighteous world, and was to heav’n extoll’d. Spenser ” (p. 1058) [more...] |
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