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Parhelia, or Mock Suns (As when two suns appear in th')

As when two suns appear in th' azure sky, Mounted in Phoebus' chariot fierie bright:

Both darting forth fair beams to each man's eye; And both adorn'd with lamps of flaming light, All that behold such strange prodigious sight, Not knowing nature's work, nor what to weene, Are wrapt with wonder, and with rare affrighte. Spenser. A Parhelion is a meteor in form of a bright light, appearing on one side of the sun. Phenomena of this kind have been mentioned both by the ancients and moderns Aristotle 4 Q .