suas exercere possit, dono dari debere tibi eam devoveo, ego acceptam
Gemmam sculptori trado, at gentilitia mea insignia illi, quamadmodum
fieri solet, in Jaspide Chalcedono, aliisque Ignobilioribus Gemmis,
insculperat. Turpe enim existimabam, hujusmodi Gemmâ ornatus gratia, dum
gratiam nullam haberet, uti. Paret Sculptor redditque Gemmam, quam gesto
pro annulo Signatorio. Vix per mensem gestaram, redit illi pristinus
color, sed non ita nitens propter Sculpturam, ac inæqualem superficiem.
Miramur omnes gemmam, atque id præcipuè quod color indies pulchrior
fieret. Id quià observabam, nunquam fere eam à manu deposui, ita ut nunc
adhuc candem gestem._

[32] _Olaus Wormius, in Musæ. 18º pag. 186._

[33] _Musæ. Worm._ pag. 99.

[34] Arte Vetraria, lib. 7 cap. 102.

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OBSERVATIONS

Made this 27th.[35]
of _October_ 1663. about
Mr. _Clayton's_
Diamond.[36]

Being look'd on in the Day time, though in a Bed, whose Curtains were
carefully drawn, I could not discern it to Shine at all, though well
Rubb'd, but about a little after Sun-set, whilst the Twilight yet lasted,
Nay, this Morning[37] a pretty while after Sun-rising, (but before I had