oue. And both of them going to the triumphes, they see innumerable
youths and Damosels, sporting with great delight._

The Archer _Cupid_, in my wounding heart hauing his residence, like a
Lord and king, holding me tyed in the bands of Loue, I found my selfe
pricked and grieuously tormented, in his tyrannous and yet pleasant
regiment. And abounding in doubtfull delight, vnmeasurably sighing,
I watered my plaints; and then the surmounting Nymph, with a pleasing
grace, incontinently gaue me comfort, and with her ruddy and fayre
spoken lyppes, framing violent and attractiue wordes, she gaue me
assurance: abandoning and remouing from my heart, all fearefull
thoughts, with her Olymphicall aspects, and cooling with her eloquent
speeches, my burning heart; and with an amorous and friendly regarde,
and cast of her eyes, and smiling grace, she saide thus vnto mee.

_Poliphilus_, I woulde thou shouldest vnderstand and know thys, that
true and vertuous loue hath no respect of outward things, and therefore
let not the basenes of thy apparell, diminish or lessen thy minde,
if perhaps noble and gentle, and worthy of these places, and fitte to
beholde these maruellous tryumphes; Therefore let not thy minde be
dismayed with feare, but dilligently behold what Kingdomes they
possesse, that are crowned by _Venus_. I meane, such as bee strongly
agonished and yet perseuere still, seruing and attending vpon her
amorous Aultars and sacred flames, vntill they obtaine her lawfull
fauour. And then making an ende of her short and sweet speech, both of
vs making forward, our pace neither too fast nor too slowe, but in a
measure; I thought thus, and thus discoursing with my selfe.

Oh most valiant _Perseus_, thou wouldest more feirsly haue fought with
the cruell Dragon, for the fauour of this, then for the loue of thy
fayre _Andromada_. And after.

Oh _Iason_, if the marriage of this had beene offered vnto thee, with a
more greater and more daungerous aduenture, then the obtayning of the
golden fleece, thou wouldest haue let goe that, and vndertaken this,
with a greater courage, esteeming it aboue al the iewelles and precious
treasures of the whole worlde; I, more then those of the ritch and
mightie Queene _Eleutherillida_. Continually seeming more fayre, more
beautifull, and more louely. _Hippodamia_, and all the greedy scraping
and doubtfull Vsurers, neuer tooke such delight in getting of gold.
A quyet Harbour was neuer so welcome to a des