See quadran on Wiktionary
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"text": "And hee (the Magician) seeing the great disloyalty of him (Lusindo), determined before hee did die to bee reuenged of that injury, and likewise of me, in such sort, that in time ther might be some remedy, & so by his great knowledge he brought the prince hether vnto his habitation, andd put him into a quadran full of fire, whereas he is continually burning, and without ceasing he crieth out & giueth terrible shrikes, & cannot come foorth of that quadran.",
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