The true portriture of a prodigious monster. Taken in the mountains of Zardana. the following discription - whereof was sent to Madrid. Octob: 20th. 1654 from thence to Don Olonz de Cardines embassidor for the King of Spain, now resident at London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74144 of text R212309 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[82]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 1 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A74144 Thomason 669.f.19[82] ESTC R212309 99870947 99870947 163418 2248508838

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THE TRVE PORTRITVRE OF A PRODIGIOVS MONSTER .

Taken in the Mountaines of Zardana . the following Discription where of was sent to Madrid . Octob : 20th : 1654 from thence to Don : Olonzo de Gardines . Embassidor for the King of Spaine now risident at London .

It s stature was like that of a stronge well set man ; with : Seuen Heades , the cheife of them looking forwarde , with one Eye in its Front , the other Heades haue each two Eyes in their naturall scituation . the Eaves of an Asse . with its principall Heade it Eates , DrinKes , and Cryes . with an extraordinary and terrible noise ; the other Heades are also moued to and fro . it hath Seven Armes , and Handes of a Man , very Strong in each of y m : from the midle downward it is like a Satyr , with : Goates Feete , and clouen ▪ it hath no distinction of Sex .

Sould by Willm Faithorne at the Shipp within Temple Barr.