6 2 The Ordonrmnce of the Part II.

Chap. II. Mutule. The fifth Part being also divided into sour Particles, thetwo lowest are given to the Ogee, without a Fillet, which caps theMutule. The sixth Part, with the two Particles which remain ofthe fifth, are for the Corona. The seventh Part, being also divi-ded into sour Particules, the three lowest are given to the Ogee nexton the Corona, with its Fillet; and, lastly, the ninth, being part-ed into two, one is given to the Fillet, or Square of the great Cy-maife, which takes up the Remainder to the Ogee, which crownsthe Drip. This Division of the Doric Cornice, which seems con-fused and obscure in Discourse, is very clear and intelligible in theFigure, for, all the Heights of the Mouldings, are regulated bytwo Divisions only; to wit, by that of the whole Cornice intonine Parts, and, that of each Part into four.

U n d e «. the Mutule, are cut thirty-six Drops, in six Rows of Sixeach. It has been already mention a, that these Drops, of the So-ffito of the Cornice, should be round, and. shaped like small Cones,whose Points, or Tops, are funk into the Under-bed of the Corona,or Mtitule : The Mutule has a hollow Grooye, wrought only onthe Fore-edge, like that which is made under the Corona ot theIonic Cornice.

Th e Character of this Cornice is three-fold: there is one veryplain, as that of <Palladio , Serlio , iBarbaro, Cataneo , 'Bullant, andf)e Lorme 3 where there are neither Mutules nor Dentels. There isanother, more compounded, having Dentels 3 as, that of the The-atre of Marcellus ., of Scamozgi, and of Vignala . The third is stillmore lo, having Mutules, but no Dentels. I have chosen this last,on account of the Mutules, following the Designs which Aberti,yignola , and fyrrho Ligorio have given us, as being conformable tosome very ancient Works, whole Fragments they found : And, be-cause the Mutules, are, according to VitruYtus, essential Parts ofthe Thric Order, whereas, the Dentels are particularly appropria-ted to the Ionic. I make the great Cymaisc with an Ogee, and notwith an Hollow, as Tis held to have been in the Theatre of Mar-cellus^ and, as V'ignola and Viola have done 3 because the Hollow is.weaker, and more subject to be broke than. the other 5 it being a-'gainst reason, that an Order, whose Property is to be massive andstrong, should have .Members more tender, than the more delicateOrders: and, herein, I have followed fallalw, Scamozgj, Serlio,Barbaro, Cataneo, Aberti, IBullant, and De Lorme : If any one has a-mind to make it a Hollow, because, some are rof Opinion, 'tis thatwhich VitruYms calls the Doric Cymaife, he may do it, -keeping-the famfe Proportions which were jgiven for the groat Cymaife, al--,i lowing