XXI.

French.

Profonde argile blanche nourrit rocher, Qui d’un abysme istra l’acticineuse, En vain troublez ne l’oseront toucher, Ignorant estre au fond terre argileuse.

English.

A deep white clay feedeth a Rock, Which clay shall break out of the deep like milk, In vain people shall be troubled not daring to touch it, Being ignorant that in the bottom there is a milky clay.

ANNOT.

It is a Rock in the middle of the Sea, whose Roots are fed by a white clay, which is at the foot of this Rock, in the bottom of the Sea, and therefore called deep.

This clay being softned, and dissolved by the Sea-water, shall appear upon the superficies of it like milk about the Rock. Those that shall see this wonder, _being ignorant that in the bottom there is a milky clay_, shall in vain be troubled at it, and shall not dare to touch it.