y and wantonly to
deuise with mee: and beeing hemmed in with their lasciuious company,
I found my selfe prouoked by their perswasiue alluring intisements, to
vnlawfull concupiscence, feeling in my selfe a burning desire, kyndled
with their wanton aspects, an increasing prouocation of a lusting fier.
I doubt me that if _Phrine_ had beene of that fauour, and force in
gesture of speech, colde _Xenocrates_ would haue consented to her
alluring, and not haue beene accused by her, to be an image of stone.
Their countenances were so lasciuious, their breastes naked and
intycing, theyr eyes flattering, in their roseall forheads, glystering
and rowling, their shapes most excellent, their apparell rich, their
motions girlish, theyr regards byting, theyr ornaments, sweete and
precious, no part counterfeited, but all perfected by nature in an
excellent sort, nothing deformed, but all partes aunswerable one to an
other.

Their heades yellowe, their tresses fayre, and the hayre soft and fine,
in such a sort dressed vp and rouled into trammels, with laces of silke
and golde, passing any ioye that a man may beholde, turned about their
heads in an excellent manner, inuiluxed, and bound vppe together, their
forheades compassed about and shaddowed with wauering curles, mouably
pr[ae]pending in a wonderfull manner, marueilous delightfull, perfumed &
sweet, yeelding an vnknown fragrancie. Their speeches so perswasorie and
pleasing, as might robbe the fauour of an indesposed hart, and violently
drawe vnto them any mind, though Satyr-like or churlish howsoeuer, to
depraue Religion, to binde euery loose conceit, to make any rusty
Peasant amorous, and to mollifie any froward disposition. Vppon which
occasion, my minde, altogether set on fier with a new desire, and in the
extreame heate of concupiscence, prouoked to fall headlong into a
lasciuious appetite, & drowned in lustfull loue vnbridled: in the
extreame inuasion and infectious contage thereof, the Damoselles
forsooke mee and left me all alone in a fruitfull playne.

_In this place Poliphilus being left alone, a most fayre Nymphe (when
hee was forsaken of the lasciuious company) came vnto him, whose
beautie and apparell Poliphilus dooth amourously describe._

My tender heart thus excessiuely wounded with amorous prouocation,
I think I was mad, I stood so amazed, or blinde at the least, because
that I coulde not perceiue in what sort or how this desired and
delightfull company