CHAP. XIII.
AFter the same manner likewise two Parelie are wont to be made.* 1.1 For what letteth it, but that there may be as many as there are clouds that are fit to represent the image of the Sunne? Some are of that opinion, that as often as they see two such representati∣ons, that they iudge the one to be of the Sunne, the other of the image if selfe. For amongst vs likewise, when as diuers mirrors are disposed so, that the one is in the sight of the other, all of them are filled, but yet there is but one image of the thing; the other are the resemblances of that image. For it is no matter what the thing is, which is shewed in a mirror, because it repre∣senteth all that which is set before it. So there likewise in the aire, if any casu∣altie dispose the clouds, so as they behold one another: the one cloud will re∣present the Sunne it selfe, and the other represent the image of the Sunne. But such clouds as these ought to be thicke, light, shining, and entirely of the na∣ture of the Sunne; and therefore all these representations are white, and resem∣ble the Crescent of the Moone, because their brightnesse proceedeth from an oblique reuerberation of the sunne. For if the cloud be beneath the sunne, and neerer vnto him, she is dissipated by him, and being set farre off, of him, she can∣not sufficiently entertaine his beames, to make show of an impression, as mir∣rors represent not our faces which are farre off from them, because the sight of our eye hath not recourse vnto vs backe againe. Furthermore, the Parelie or Sunnes betoken raine (for I will vse the Historiographers name) especially if they show towards the Southward, where the clouds are especially gathered: when such impressions as these begirt the sunne on euery side, if wee beleeue Aratus, it foretokeneth a Tempest.