The same is not forgot by Lapidaries while they cut their gemms pyramidally, or by æquicrural triangles. Perspective pictures, in their Base, Horison, and lines of distances, cannot escape these Rhomboidall decussations. Sculptors in their strongest shadows, after this order doe draw their double Haches. And the very _Americans_ do naturally fall upon it, in their neat and curious textures, which is also observed in the elegant artifices of _Europe_. But this is no law unto the wool of the neat _Retiarie_ Spider, which seems to weave without transversion, and by the union of right lines to make out a continued surface, which is beyond the common art of Textury, and may still nettle _Minerva_ the goddesse of that mystery.[135] And he that shall hatch the little seeds, either found in small webs, or white round Egges, carried under the bellies of some Spiders, and behold how at their first production in boxes, they will presently fill the same with their webbs, may observe the early, and untaught finger of nature, and how they are natively provided with a stock, sufficient for such Texture. [135] _As in the contention between_ Minerva _and_ Arachne. The Rurall charm against _Dodder_, _Tetter_, and strangling weeds, was contrived after this order, while they placed a chalked Tile at the four corners, and one in the middle of their fields, which though ridiculous in the intention, was rationall in the contrivance, and a good way to diffuse the magick through all parts of the _Area_. Somewhat after this manner they ordered the little stones in the old game of _Pentalithismus_, or casting up five stones to catch them on the back of their hand. And with some resemblance hereof, the _Proci_ or Prodigal Paramours disposed their men, when they played _Penelope_.[136] For being themselves an hundred and eight, they set fifty four stones on either side, and one in the middle, which they called _Penelope_, which he that hit was Master of the game. [136] _In_ Eustachius. In Chesse-boards and Tables we yet finde Pyramids and Squares, I wish we had their true and ancient description, far different from ours, or the _Chet mat_ of the _Persians_, and might continue some elegant remarkables, as being an invention as High as _Hermes_ the Secretary of _Osyris_,[137] figuring the whole world, the motion of the Planets, with Eclipses of Sunne and Moon. [137] Plato.