Le tableau des riches inventions qui sont representees dans le songe de Poliphile

Polia, still unknown to Poliphile, gently reassures him and leads him further.
Ch. XIII p. 52.

Poliphile saw the four triumphal chariots, accompanied by a great multitude of youth.
Ch. XIIII p. 55.

Polia, still unknown to Poliphile, shows him the young men and girls who once loved, and were likewise loved by the Gods: then she made him see the Poets singing their immortal poetry.
Ch. XV p. 62.

After the Young Lady had declared to Poliphile the mystery of the triumphs and the sweet loves of the Gods, she admonished him to go further: which he did: and there he saw several young Nymphs passing the time all along a stream with their faithful friends. Then he found himself seized by the love of the Young Lady, his guide. Chap. XVI p. 63.

The Nymph leads Poliphile to several other places and makes him see the triumph of Vertumnus and Pomona Roman deities of seasons and fruit trees. Then she leads him into a sumptuous temple, and by the exhortation of the Prioress, the Nymph extinguished her torch there in a very great ceremony, making herself known to Poliphile and declaring that she was his Polia: the sacrifices that were made there.
Ch. XVII p. 65.

Polia offered the two Turtledoves, and a little Angel arrived: whereby the Prioress made her prayer to the Goddess Venus: then the roses were de-petaled, and two Swans sacrificed: upon whose ashes miraculously grew a Rosebush full of flowers and fruit, of which Poliphile and Polia ate. After the sacrifice they took leave of the Prioress: then came to another ruined temple: the custom of which Polia declares to Poliphile, and persuades him to go see several epitaphs and tombs.
Ch. XVIII p. 77.

Polia persuades Poliphile to go to the destroyed temple to see the ancient Epitaphs, where among others he found in painting the abduction of Proserpine Persephone, queen of the underworld: and how in looking at it, he was afraid of having by similar misfortune lost his Lady: wherefore he returned all terrified. After, the god of Love came towards them, who made them enter his small boat: the honor that the sea gods did him as long as this navigation lasted.
Ch. XIX p. 83.

The Nymphs rowing in the boat of Cupid sang, and Polia sang also to outdo one another, from which Poliphile received great contentment. Ch. XX p. 102.

How they arrived at the island of Cythera the sacred island of Venus, the beauty of which is described here, together with the form of their boat: and how upon descending, several Nymphs came to meet them, to do honor to Cupid their master. Ch. XXI p. 103.

Cupid descended from the boat: and the Nymphs of the Island came to meet him richly attired: in triumphal finery they offered him presents: then he mounted into his triumphal chariot to go to the Theater, and had Poliphile and Polia led after him bound and attached, with several others: description of the Theater, both outside and inside.
Ch. XXII p. 114.

Poliphile describes in this chapter the great and marvelous craftsmanship of the fountain of Venus, which was in the middle of the Amphitheater. And how the curtain by which it was

enclosed was broken: whereby he saw in Majesty the Goddess, who consigned Polia to three of her Nymphs, and Poliphile to three others. Then they were wounded by Cupid and sprinkled by his mother with the water of the fountain. At the end, for the coming of the God Mars, how they took their leave and exited the Amphitheater.
Chap. XXIII p. 124.

Poliphile relates how, for the coming of the Soldier, he and Polia leaving the theater came to another fountain, where the Nymphs declared to them the customs and institution of the sepulcher of Adonis, to which the Goddess Venus came every year to celebrate the completed year, telling them several other stories: then they required Polia to tell them her origin: and in what manner she had given herself over to loving.
Ch. XXIIII p. 127.

TABLE OF THE SECOND BOOK

A decorative woodcut initial P shows floral and leafy patterns.
Polia declares from what race she is descended, and how the city of Treviso was built by her ancestors: then in what manner Poliphile becomes in love with her.
Chap. I. p. 131.

Polia, struck by plague, vows herself to the Goddess Diana; by fortune Poliphile found himself at the temple the day she made her profession: then he returned where she was alone on her knees making her prayers, there where he declared to her the amorous torment he had endured for her, entreating her to be willing to alleviate it: of which she took no account: wherefore he swooned from grief and anguish. She, seeing him dying, fled suddenly.
Ch. II p. 133.

Polia recites the great cruelty which she used towards Poliphile, and how in fleeing she was ravished and carried away by a whirlwind, and carried into a dark forest: where she saw the justice done to two Young Ladies, by which she was greatly terrified: then found herself at the place from which she had departed. Afterward, while sleeping, there appeared to her two executioners come to take her, wherefore she woke up with a start: for which her nurse who was lying with her asked her the cause of her fear, and after having heard it, gave her advice on what she ought to do.
Ch. III p. 135.

Polia recites in what manner her nurse by various examples admonished her to avoid the ire and the threats of the Gods. And advised her to go towards the Prioress of the temple of Venus, to be instructed in what she would have to do. Ch. IIII p. 138.

Polia by the good advice and remonstrance of her nurse changed her opinion, and went to find Poliphile who lay dead at the temple of Diana, where she had left him: and how he resuscitated in her arms: wherefore the Nymphs of Diana who came upon them there, and surprised them together, chased them from the sanctuary: of a vision that appeared to her in her room. And how she went to the temple of Venus where her Poliphile was.
Ch. V p. 140.

After Polia had accused herself before the Prioress of the temple of Venus of the inhumanities and rudenesses she had used towards Poliphile, and declared that she was to-