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CHAPTER 1.LV. What manner of dwelling the Thelemites had. In the middle of the lower court there was a stately fountain of fair alabaster.
Upon the top thereof stood the three Graces, with their cornucopias, or horns of abundance, and did jet out the water at their breasts, mouth, ears, eyes, and other open passages of the body.
The inside of the buildings in this lower court stood upon great pillars of chalcedony stone and porphyry marble made archways after a goodly antique fashion.
Within those were spacious galleries, long and large, adorned with curious pictures, the horns of bucks and unicorns: with rhinoceroses, water-horses called hippopotames, the teeth and tusks of elephants, and other things well worth the beholding.
The lodging of the ladies, for so we may call those gallant women, took up all from the tower Arctic unto the gate Mesembrine.
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