uerent
suspition therof.

This honourable Nymph, had her virgineall diuine and small body couered
with a thinne subtill stuffe of greene silke, powdered with golde, vppon
a smocke of pure white coorled Lawne, couering her most delicate and
tender body, and snowye skinne, as fine and good as euer _Pamphila_ the
daughter to _Platis_ in the Iland of Coo, did inuent to weaue. Which
white smocke seemed as if it had couered damaske Roses.

The coate which she wore ouer that, was not like our fashioned
petticoates with French wastes, for that her sweete proporcioned body
needed no such pinching in, & vnholsome weare, hyndering procreation and
an enemie to health: but rather like a wastcoate, with little plightes
and gathers vnder her rounde and pretty bearing out breasts, vpon her
slender and small waste, ouer her large proportioned flanckes and little
round belly, fast girded about with a girdle of golde: and ouer the
same, a gowne or garment side to the ground, and welted belowe.

This garment beeing very side, was taken vp round about the pitch of her
hippes, and before vpon her belly, & tyed about with the studded
marriage girdle of _Citherea_, the plucking vp of y^e garment, bearing
ouer the girdle about her like a french vardingale, & the nethermost
part falling down about her feet in plightes and fouldes, vnstable and
blowne about with the sweete ayre & coole winde, causing sometime, by
the thinnesse thereof, her shape to be seene in it, which shee seemed
with a prompt readinesse to resist and hynder. Her beautie and grace was
such, as I stoode in doubt whether shee were begotten by any humaine
generation: her armes stretching downe, her handes long and slender, her
fingers small and fayre, and her nayles thinne and ruddy, and shining,
as if she had beene _Minerua_ her selfe. Her armes to be seene through
the cleere thinnesse of the Lawne, the winges about the size of her
garment where her armes came out, were of golde, in an excellent sort
and fashion welted, and set with Pearle and stone: and in like sort, all
the hemming about of her vesture, with golde ooes, and Pearle, and
spangles of golde in diuers places, distantly disposed in a curious and
pleasant sort to beholde.

Vppon either side, vnder the armes to her waste, her vpper garment was
vnsowed and open, but fastened with three buttons of great Orient Pearle
(such as _Cleopatra_ neuer had to dissolue in a Potion) in loopes of
blewe silke, so that you might s