The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures, as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... (1634)
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? · London : Printed [by J. Legat] for I.M[arriott]. and are to bee sold by Francis Constable at the signe of the crane, in Pauls Church-yard · leaf 156
remebermt. Cofm. I pray you proceed to the chiefe, andwhy it is fo called. End. The chiefe is fo calledof the French word Chiefe^and that from the Greekwhich is the head or upperparr,this pofleflcth the upperthird part of the Scotcheon,and is divided by one line inthis manner. Cofm. I underftand… … H4 lines as thus: The third Boeke of Li B. $,
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