Sketch Second
Two Sides to a Tortoise––––––––
"Most ugly shapes and horrible aspects,
Such as Dame Nature selfe mote feare to see,
Or shame, that ever should so fowle defects
From her most cunning hand escaped bee;
All dreadfull pourtraicts of deformitee.
Ne wonder if these do a man appall;
For all that here at home we dreadful1 hold
Be but as bugs to fearen babes withall
Compared to the creatures in these isles' entrall.
Fear naught, then said the palmer, well avized,
For these same monsters are not there indeed,
But are into these fearful shapes disguized.
And lifting up his vertuous staffe on high,
Then all that dreadful armie fast gan flye
Into great Tethy's bosom, where they hidden lye."
IN VIEW OF THE DESCRIPTION given, may one be gay upon the Encantadas? Yes: that i
