The golden booke of the leaden goddes Wherein is described the vayne imaginations of heathe[n] pagans, and counterfaict Christians: wyth a description of their seueral tables, what ech of their pictures signified. By Stephen Batman, student in diuinitie.

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Title: The golden booke of the leaden goddes Wherein is described the vayne imaginations of heathe[n] pagans, and counterfaict Christians: wyth a description of their seueral tables, what ech of their pictures signified. By Stephen Batman, student in diuinitie.
Author: Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.
Publication: [Imprinted at London :: In Fleetestreete, neare vnto Saynct Dunstanes Churche, by Thomas Marshe],; Anno. 1577.
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VVLCAN.

VVLCAN was figured lympinge, wyth a blew Hat on his head, a Hammer in his hand, prepa∣red to the Forge lyke a Smyth.

Signification.

BY Vulcan is ment Fier, & by his blew hat the ayry firmament, by his limping, the Reuolucions of the Heauens, which whē it descendeth to vs, looseth much of his former strength. By Vulcan is signified labor by his hatte of blew, true dealing, by his Hammer, or Sledge, the continuall toyle of Husbandrye, aswel by the Plough in earing the tough earth: as by the Ham∣mer in forging of Mettall, whose force must bee prepa¦red aswell to the mayntenaunce of the Prince, as the enriching of the subiect.

The Poetes faigne that Iupiter iarring with Iuno his wyfe, fell from wordes to blowes. Vulcan com∣ming to the reskue of Iuno, Iupiter waxed so angrye that hee tooke Vulcan by the Legges, and flange him into Lemnos, whom the Inhabitants receiued as sent

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from Heauen and learned of him, to prepare Iron for necessary vses.