This place is joyning to a mountaine (hill), and it seemed unto us more fit and commodious to build a fortresse;.
Amidst the mountaine Ida groues, Where Paris kept his Heard, Before the other Ladies all He would haue thee prefer'd.
Now by this ground that I am banisht from, Well could I curse away a winters night, And standing naked on a mountaine top, Where byting cold would neuer let grasse grow, And thinke it but a minute spent in sport.
The Kingly Prophet had learned the safety of these by his owne experience, when he also was faine to make a mountaine his refuge from the fury of his Master Saul, who persecuted him in the wildernesse.
There is a tale of the Nemean Lyon that Hercules slew, which first rushing among the heards out of his unknowne den in the Mountaine of Cytheron in Bœotia, the credulous people thought he was sent from their Goddesse the Moone.
But notwithstanding this, there bee some others who thinke that it is on the top of some high mountaine under the line, and these interpreted the torrid Zone to be the flaming Sword whereby Paradise was guarded.
You must know that there is not meerely one ranke of mountaines about the edge of the moone, but divers orders, one mountaine behind another, and so there is somewhat to hinder those void spaces which otherwise, perhaps, might appeare.
But I am not of their opinion in this, because I suppose they goe upon a false ground whilst they conceive that the highest mountaine upon the earth is not above a mile perpendicular.
Orpheus with his Lute made Trees, And the Mountaine tops that freeze, Bow themselues when he did sing.
He shall flourish, And like a Mountaine Cedar, reach his branches, To all the Plaines about him: Our Childrens Children Shall see this, and blesse Heauen Kin.
Sidenote: wholsome brother,] Could you on this faire Mountaine leaue to feed, And batten on this Moore?
In the present instance I do so, and request that you will show Mr. Mountaine all the consideration in your power.
A great mountaine as bigge as a molehill, A heauy burthen perdy, as a pound of fethers.
Thunderings, and the Lightnings, and the noyse of the Trumpet, and the mountaine smoaking, removed, and stood a far off.
On the mountaine sat Apollo, and at his feet sat Calliope; and on every side of the mountaine sate four Muses, playing on severell sweet instruments.
Would Castara were The daughter of some mountaine cottager, Who with his toile worne out, could dying leave Her no more dowre, than what she did receive From bounteous nature.
In prosperity he gratefully admires the bounty of the Almighty giver, and useth, not abuseth plenty: But in adversity hee remaines unshaken, and like some eminent mountaine hath his head above the clouds.
Now for our Mountaine sport, vp to yond hill Your legges are yong: Ile tread these Flats.
From thence wee went to the mountaine foote called Anniperima, and so passing the riuer Carone on which the Spanish Citie was seated, we met with our ships at Puerto de los Espannoles or Conquerabia.
Sidenote: Gold and siluer in a mountaine neere Ceuola.
Neere vnto these mines were certaine townes of Indians dwelling upon the mountaine whereon they might easily ascend, by reason of an open way that led vp to the same.
Countrie, and hath many lakes and thicke woods, and in some places they are of wild pine trees; and is a weake soile: There is in it neither Mountaine nor hill.
All that way and plaines are as full of crookebacked oxen, as the mountaine Serena in Spaine is of sheepe: but there is no people but such as keepe those cattell.
And no maruayle, because the way is rough and long: and with the carriage of our Harquebuses downe the mountaine and hilles, and in the passage of Riuers, the greater part of our corne was spoyled.
From the top of this Mountaine a man may over-looke all the Ilands which lie before the Bay, and discry such ships as are upon the Sea-coast.
To the North-west is a high Mountaine with three little rising Hils on the top of it, wherefore it is called the Tramount.
Thou shalt be as free As mountaine windes; but then exactly do All points of my command Ariell.
Vssa hath his springs in the mountaine [Marginal Note: Cingulus mundi.
This mountaine is extended into the Ocean vnto the mouthes of the riuers of Dwina and Petzora.
To conclude, there is another mountaine in the same Aethyopia, and not farre from the said Zimiris, which breedeth the stone Theamedes that will abide no yron, but rejecteth and driveth the same from it.
There is a Mountaine neere the said Sault which discovereth farre into the Countrie and a Little River which falleth from the said Mountaine into the Lake.
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