pius, in which many men,
emaciated and infirm, sleeping, appeared to be winning back their lost
health; likewise with a verse signifying this, and saying:

Rende gl' uomini sani il dolce Sonno.

Even as in another place there was seen Mercury pointing towards some
Dreams that were shown flying through the air and speaking in the ears
of King Latinus, who was asleep in a cave; his verse saying:

Spesso in sogno parlar lece con Dio.

Orestes, then, spurred by the Furies, was seen alone taking some rest
amid such travail by the help of the Dreams, who were shown driving away
those Furies with certain bunches of poppies; with his verse that said:

Fuggon pel sonno i piu crudi pensieri.

And there was the wretched Hecuba likewise dreaming in a vision that a
lovely hind was rapt from her bosom and strangled by a fierce wolf; this
being intended to signify the piteous fate that afterwards befell her
hapless daughter; with a motto saying:

Quel ch' esser deve, il sogno scuopre e dice.

Even as in another place, with a verse that said:

Fanno gli Dei saper lor voglie in sogno,

there was seen Nestor appearing to Agamemnon, and revealing to him the
will of almighty Jove. And in the seventh and last was depicted the
ancient usage of making sacrifice, as to a revered deity, to Sleep in
company with the Muses, represented by an animal sacrificed upon an
altar; with a verse saying:

Fan sacrifizio al Sonno ed alle Muse.

All these little scenes were divided and upheld by various Satyrs,
Bacchants, boys, and witches, and rendered pleasingly joyous and ornate
by divers nocturnal animals and festoons of poppies, not without a
beautiful medallion set in place of a shield in the last part of the
car, wherein was seen painted the story of Endymion and the Moon;
everything, as has been said, being executed with such delicacy and
grace, patience and design, that it would entail too much work to seek
to describe every least part with its due praise. But those of whom it
has been told that they were placed as the children of Sleep in such
extravagant costumes upon the above-described car, singing to the
favourite airs of the city the following canzonet, seemed truly, with
their soft and marvellous harmony, to be seeking to infuse a most
gracious and sweet sleep in their hearers, saying:

Or che la rugiadosa
Alba la rondinella a pianger chiama,
Questi che tanto v' ama,
Sonno, gran padre nostro e