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Some of the plants were not yet in bloom, their buds curled in pink, pointed spirals held in the pale green calices, but most were already star-flowering and giving off their strong scent.

Inventes illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos: Qu� sit per calices facta Sibylla suos.

Towards evening every bird became silent, the flowers closed their calices, the leaves of the trees hung limply down.

Then to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.

The motto, “Vesani calices quid non fecere,” a parody on the line, “Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?”