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Loves Garland.

Within this pot was an other little pot with the inscription of these verses:—

Abite hinc pessimi fures.
Vos quid voltis cum vostris oculis emissitiis?
Abite hic vostro cum Mercurio petasato caduceatoque.
Maximus maximo donum Plotoni hoc sacrum facit.

A way from hence ye mighty theues, trudge els where and go by
What seek ye with your spying eies, why do you pose and pry,
Hence with your hatted Mercury, and with his rod also.
This gift is sacred by the greatest vnto the greatest Ploto.

Again, within this little pot was found a light yet burning betwene two Phials, the one of Golde, the other of Silver, ful of a certayne moste pure liquor, by the vertue whereof they beleue that this lighte hadde burnte manye a