And as they lay in crossed beds, so they sat upon seeming crosse legg'd seats: in which form the noblest thereof were framed; Observable in the triumphall seats, the _sella curulis_, or _Ædyle Chayres_, in the coyns of _Cestius_, _Sylla_, and _Julius_. That they sat also crosse legg'd many noble draughts declare; and in this figure the sitting gods and goddesses are drawn in medalls and medallions. And beside this kinde of work in Retiarie and hanging tectures, in embroderies, and eminent needle-works; the like is obvious unto every eye in glass-windows. Nor only in Glassie contrivances, but also in Lattice and Stone-work, conceived in the Temple of _Solomon_; wherein the windows are termed _fenestræ reticulatæ_, or lights framed like nets.[131] And agreeable unto the Greek expression concerning Christ in the _Canticles_,[132] looking through the nets, which ours hath rendered, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himselfe through the lattesse; that is, partly seen and unseen, according to the visible and invisible side of his nature. To omit the noble reticulate work, in the chapters of the pillars of _Solomon_, with Lillies, and Pomegranats upon a network ground; and the _Craticula_ or grate through which the ashes fell in the altar of burnt offerings. [131] δικτυοτά. [132] _Cant._ 2. That the networks and nets of antiquity were little different in the form from ours at present, is confirmable from the nets in the hands of the Retiarie gladiators, the proper combatants with the secutores. To omit the ancient Conopeion or gnatnet of the Ægyptians, the inventors of that Artifice: the rushey labyrinths of _Theocritus_; the nosegaynets, which hung from the head under the nostrils of Princes; and that uneasie metaphor of _Reticulum Jecoris_, which some expound the lobe, we the caule above the liver. As for that famous network[133] of _Vulcan_, which inclosed _Mars_ and _Venus_, and caused that unextinguishable laugh in heaven; since the gods themselves could not discern it, we shall not prie into it; Although why _Vulcan_ bound them, _Neptune_ loosed them, and _Apollo_ should first discover them, might afford no vulgar mythologie. Heralds have not omitted this order or imitation thereof, whiles they Symbollically adorn their Scuchions with Mascles, Fusils and Saltyrs,[134] and while they disposed the figures of Ermins, and vaired coats in this Quincuncial method. [133] Ἄσβεστος δ' ἅ ρ' ἐνῶρτο γελως. Hom. [134] De armis Scaccatis, Masculatis, invectis fuselatis vide Spelm. Aspilog. et Upton. cum erudit. Bissæo.