be regarded as one and the same thing.
And with the exception of this star, see to it that all the lesser
stars near the Aurora shall have disappeared.

"Now, having by this time filled up all the exterior of the chamber
both above in the oval and on the sides and facades, it remains for us
to come to the interior, the four spandrels of the vaulting. Beginning
with that over the bed, which is between the left-hand facade and that
at the foot, you must paint Sleep there; and in order to figure him,
you must first figure his home. Ovid places it in Lemnos and among the
Cimmerii, Homer in the AEgean Sea, Statius among the Ethiopians, and
Ariosto in Arabia. Wherever it may be, it is enough to depict a
mountain, such an one as may be imagined where there is always
darkness and never any sun; at the foot of it a deep hollow, through
which water shall pass, as still as death, in order to signify that it
makes no murmur, and this water must be of a sombre hue, because they
make it a branch of Lethe. Within this hollow shall be a bed, which,
being fabled to be of ebony, shall be black in colour and covered with
black draperies. In this bed shall be placed Sleep, a young man of
perfect beauty, for they make him surpassing beautiful and serene;
nude, according to some, and according to others clothed in two
garments, one black below and another white over it, with wings on the
shoulders, and, according to Statius, also at the top of the head.
Under his arm he shall hold a horn, which shall appear to be spilling
a liquid of a livid hue over the bed, in order to denote Oblivion;
although others make the horn full of fruits. In one hand he shall
hold the wand, and in the other three poppy-heads. He shall be
sleeping like one sick, with the head and the limbs hanging limp, as
if wholly relaxed in slumber. About his head shall be seen Morpheus,
Icelus, and Phantasus, and a great number of Dreams, all which are his
children. The Dreams shall be little figures, some of a beautiful
aspect and others hideous, as being things that partly please and
partly terrify. Let them, likewise, have wings, and also twisted feet,
as being unstable and uncertain things, and let them hover and whirl
about him, making a kind of dramatic spectacle by transforming
themselves into things possible and impossible. Morpheus is called by
Ovid the creator and fashioner of figures, and I would therefore make
him in the act of fashioning various masks with grotesqu