The Garden of Cyrus (1658) - Page 23

in length and four feet in width, did not differ much from this mea-

sure; and, whatever its width might have been, the length could hardly be less

of the tyrannical bed of Procrustes a rogue smith in Greek mythology who forced travelers to fit his iron bed by stretching them or cutting off their legs, since in a shorter measure he would not

have been able to fit people for his cruelty of stretching original: "extension". But the ancient buri-

al bed, or Amazonian tomb, in the marketplace of Megara a historic coastal city in Greece was in the

form of a lozenge a diamond or rhombus shape, which is easily determined by the arrangement of the

body; for, the arms not lying bound original: "fasciated" or wrapped up

in the Greek original: "Græcian" manner but spread out at a middle

extension, the surrounding lines

will clearly form

that figure.