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Of the Triangle or Triquet.
The Triangle is an halfe square, Lozange or Fuzie parted vpon the crosse angles: and so his base being brode and his top narrow, it receaueth meetres of many sizes one shorter then another: and ye may vse this figure standing or reuersed, as thus.
A certaine great Sultan of Persia called Ribuska, entertaynes in loue the Lady Selamour, sent her this triquet reuest pitiously be∣moning his estate, all set in merquetry with letters of blew Saphire and Topas artificially cut and entermingled.
Selamour dearer than his owne life, To thy di stressed wretch cap tiue, Re buska whome late ly cast Most cru el ly thou perst With thy dead ly dart, That paire of starres Shi ning a farre Turne from me, to me That I may & may not see The smile, the loure That lead and driue Me to die to liue Tw••se yea thrise In — one houre.
To which Selamour to make the match egall, and the figure entire, answered in a standing Triquet richly engrauen with let∣ters of like stuffe.
Power Of death Nor of life Hath Selamour, With Gods it is rife To geue and bereue breath, I may for pitie perchaunce Thy lost libertie re store, Vpon thine othe with this penaunce, That while thou liuest thou neuer loue no more.
This condition seeming to Sultan Ribuska very hard to per∣forme, and cruell to be enioyned him, doeth by another figure in Taper, signifying hope, answere the Lady Selamour, which dittie for lack of time I translated not.