of the Publick, and satisfaction of the more Curious.
For should we omit this our Intention, the Work would be deficient, and this Art of Glass deprived of one of its most excellent and principal Beauties; therefore we propose in the first place, to give di∣rection for the Choice of Matter to be used, and thence shew the Preparations for all sorts, and how to make and suit the Colours most convenient on Enamel.
The Method not only used by the Goldsmiths, but by such as form Pourtraitures with it of all sorts, as Man, Beasts, Fowl, and other Curiosities, very naturally, by a just disposure of the Colours, is most admirable; to effect which no more is re∣quired than a lighted Taper, and a hollow Pipe of Metal for that purpose, to blow the Blaze to the Matter, and make it malleable and soft, and thence the several Figures are drawn or impressed thereon.
And this may be so far improv'd and heightned, as to admit of Performances rather to be thought the Essay of a Divine than Human Artist. Witness that notable Piece of Chariot drawn by two Oxen, of which Cardan takes notice in the fifty second Chapter of his tenth Book, which was so completely done in Little, that the whole might be covered with the Wing of a Fly. The Ship rigg'd and Man arm'd which Howel says he saw. Those little Statues of Men, with several other Curiosities of Figure Vormicus also as∣sures of. Not to omit the Church of St. Mark at Venice, where the Mosaick-Work is plentifully inter∣laced with History of all Sorts, distinguishable by the Variety of Colours, and Gildings, and all con∣sisting of several different Subjects. In short, what Account Agricola has left us of these Matters, in his twelfth Book, gives us no less cause to admire this Art than he had, when he saw such notable