earth together doth hee there relate? Then after, his arriuall on shore and presenting to Queene |Dido|, howe is the destruction of |Troy| in the person of |Aeneas| to her described? In the fourth booke likewise, what an excellent description maketh he of |Fame|? How he sheweth the banquet by the |Queene| to |Aeneas| made, and how liuelie is the state and magnificence thereof deliuered? Innumerable of these, both from him and the |Transformed shapes of Ouid| coulde I here recorde, the excellencie of each being such, as by the forceable vtterance thereof bréedeth as great delight as astonishment vnto the curious searcher of the same. And in as much as I haue vndertaken to conduct the learner by example, howe to behaue himselfe in some sort herein, we will proceed with our |Epistles Descriptory|, the first wherof following, maie seeme to bee sent from a traueller to a friend of his in England, the mater whereof ensueth.= An example of a latter Descriptory, wherein is particu- _larly described an ancient City, by laying down the seuerall parts thereof._ [Sidenote: _Exordium_ Or a charge giuen, and promise made.] [Sidenote: Narratio.] [Sidenote: Scituation.] [Sidenote: Buildings.] [Sidenote: Deckings.] [Sidenote: Streets.] [Sidenote: Gouernment] [Sidenote: Habit of the people.] [Sidenote: Conclusō] My good Vncle, the remembrance of your charge giuen me, & my promise to you made at my departure out of _England_, bindeth me (at my nowe being in quiet, and with good leasure setled in _Germany_) that I should returne vnto you againe, my accustomed and dutifull regard, in sort as I haue euer endeuoured my selfe to do vnto you. It may then please you, that remaining with my L. the Duke but a fewe daies at _Geneua_, wee hasted thence to a Citie, called _Noremberge_, being imperiall, scituate in the high partes of _Germany_, where sithence wee haue almost continually remained. And albeit I could somewhat write vnto you of our passages through diuers places of the Country, yet insomuch as there is no part thereof so memorable as this citie wherein we now remaine, the description thereof at this present may solie content you. The Citie therefore, as it seemeth is most ancient, and as many doe suppose and affirme, at that time when the Country was first in subiection to the Empire of _Rome_, was builded by _Nero_ the Emperour, and of him taketh his name, as _Noremberghe_, in signification _Neros berghe_, and so much the rather doth it appeare, by sundry auncient monumentes therein yet remaining. The Citie (besides that it is situate in a most delicate and pleasant soyle, wooded and watered most plentifully on euerie side, with goodlie Trees, faire and delicate Riuers and springes,) is both of great strength in the walles of the same, and plentifully builded with high and statelie Towers on euerie part. The edificies of the Citie are rare, and of most sumptuous and