The beds of the Ancients were different from ours at present, which are almost square, being framed oblong, and about a double unto their breadth; not much unlike the _area_, or bed of this Quincuncial quadrate. The single beds of _Greece_ were six foot,[146] and a little more in length, three in breadth; the Giant-like bed of _Og_, which had four cubits of bredth, nine and a half in length, varied not much from this proportion. The Funeral bed of King _Cheops_, in the greater Pyramid, which holds seven in length, and four foot in bredth, had no great deformity from this measure; And whatsoever were the bredth, the length could hardly be lesse, of the tyrannical bed of _Procrustes_, since in a shorter measure he had not been fitted with persons for his cruelty of extension. But the old sepulchral bed, or _Amazonian_ Tomb[147] in the market-place of _Megara_, was in the form of a Lozenge; readily made out by the composure of the body. For the armes not lying fasciated or wrapt up after the _Grecian_ manner but in a middle distention, the including lines will strictly make out that figure. [146] Aristot. Mechan. [147] _Plut._ in vit. Thes. CHAPTER III Now although this elegant ordination of vegetables, hath found coincidence or imitation in sundry works of Art, yet is it not also destitute of natural examples, and though overlooked by all, was elegantly observable, in severall works of nature. Could we satisfie our selves in the position of the lights above, or discover the wisedom of that order so invariably maintained in the fixed Stars of heaven; Could we have any light, why the stellary part of the first masse, separated into this order, that the Girdle of _Orion_ should ever maintain its line, and the two Stars in _Charles's_ Wain never leave pointing at the Pole-Starre, we might abate the _Pythagoricall_ Musick of the Spheres, the sevenfold Pipe of _Pan_; and the strange Cryptography of _Gaffarell_ in his Starrie Book of Heaven. But not to look so high as Heaven or the single Quincunx of the _Hyades_ upon the neck of _Taurus_, the Triangle, and remarkable _Crusero_ about the foot of the _Centaur_; observable rudiments there are hereof in subterraneous concretions, and bodies in the Earth; in the _Gypsum_ or _Talcum Rhomboides_, in the Favaginites or honey-comb-stone, in the _Asteria_ and _Astroites_, and in the crucigerous stone of S. _Iago_ of _Gallicia_.