Double Signs of different Species
Half-and-half signs: the Centaur, the Goat-Fish, the Archer.
[p. 56] These Pairs alone an equal Frame can boast,No stranger parts are mixt, no parts are lostFrom their due Form; whilst other Pairs are join'dOf Natures disagreeing in their kind;Such is the Goat, he twists a Scaly Train,The Centaur such, half Horse, and half a Man.Observe this well, in these Mysterious ArtsWhether the Signs are fram'd of different parts,Or only Pairs, it much imports to know,For hence comes great Variety below.
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The text is Thomas Creech's 1697 verse translation, checked word by word between three scans of the same type (the 1697 printing, the 1700 printing and a third copy). The long s is printed as s; every other spelling is Creech's. Pages are cited as the 1697 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).