His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length, That to the house of heavenly gods it raught, […]

Mesoamericans played a game called patolli, which has been likened to parcheesi. […] Post-Conquest accounts also indicate patolli had religious meaning, and calendrical, numerological, cosmological, and astronomical symbolism determined the rules of play.

Enamel - A vitrifiable substance; opaque, generally Stanniferous majolica …

So wide and so far his ravage they knew, / If a sail but gleam'd white 'gainst the welkin blue, / Trumpet and bugle to arms did call, / Burghers hasten'd to man the wall, […]