ABSTRACT
He was a famous artificer; who having killed his sisters son fled to Creta, and was intertained of King Minos, whose wife Pasiphae being in love with a Bull, or a man rather of that name, she obtained her desire of him, by the help of Daedalus, who shut her within a woodden Cow; and she brought forth the Minotaure, or man with a Bulls head, which 5 the King perceiving, shut the Minotaure and Daedalus with his son Icarus within the labyrinth that Daedalus had made; but by a thread he got out, and flew away with wings which he made for himself and Icarus: who not obeying his fathers advice, but flying too neer the Sun, fell and was drowned; the wings he used were sailes and oares. 10
