middeste

The first thyng that I aunswere is, that it is not the verie same space: For that the five have fower spaces in the middeste, whiche retiryng betwene the thre, or betwene the twoo, thei occupie: then there remaineth thesame space, that is betwene the one maine battaile and other and thesame that is, betwene the battailes, and the extraordinarie

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

[Sidenote: How a battaile is made with twoo hornes; The orderyng of a battaile with a voide space in the middeste.]

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

As for Luigi and I, have in this middeste intertained it, and as every one of us hath taken his part willingly, so I beleve not, that Baptiste wil refuse it.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

At hir feet stood a satire in prurient lust vppon his gotishe feet, his mouth and his nose ioyning together like a gote with a beard growinge on either sides of his chin, with two peakes and shorte in the middeste like Goates hayre, and in like manner about his flankes and his eares, grewe hayre, with a visage adulterated betwixt a mans and a Goates, in so rare a sort as if the excellent woorkman in his caruinge had had presented vnto him by nature the Idea and shape of a _Satire_.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna