ower gentle, and Melliot: and with them a great company of yonge
maydes, more fayre and delicate then bee to bee founde in Sparta; Both
kindes apparelled very richly, in silkes of changable collours, hyding
the perfect collour; some in Purple & Murry, and some in white curled
Sendall, such as [Ae]gipt neuer affoorded, and of dyuers other collours:
some Tawney, some Crymosen, others in Greene, some in Vyolet, some in
Blewe, Peach collour, Peacocke collour, perfectly engrayned, as euer
Corica coulde yeelde: and powdered and wouen with golde, and edged and
hemmed about With orient Pearle and stones set in pure golde; some in
gownes, and others in hunting sutes.

And the most of the beautifull Nymphes, had their fayre haire smoothly
bounde vppe together, and thrise rowled about, with an excellent
finishing knot; Others had their vnstable & wauing tresses, spreading
downe ouer their fayre neckes. Some, with aboundance of haire, cast vp
ouer their forheades, and the endes turning into curles, & shaddowing
ouer the fayrenes of the same: so as Nature and not Arte, shewed her
selfe therein a beautifull mistresse; With fillets and laces of golde,
edged with orient Pearle, and others in Caules of golde, wearing about
theyr slender neckes, rich and precious Carkenets and, necklaces, of
Pearles and stone, and depending iewelles. And vppon theyr small eares,
did hange dyuers precious stones, and ouer the variable dressings of
theyr heades, before in two Hemycicles, were set shoddowes of oryent
Pearle and stone, in flowers of hayre.

All which excellent ornaments, together with theyr most elegant
personages, were easily able to alter, any churlish, vile or obstinate
heart.

Theyr fayre breastes, in a voluptuous and wanton sort, were bare to the
middest of them: And vppon their prettie feete, some wore sandalles,
after the auncient manner, beeing soles, and the foote bare fastened to
the same, with a small chaine of golde, comming vp betwixt the great toe
and the middle, and the little toe and the next, about the heele ouer
the instep, and fastening vppon the vpper part, betwixt the toes and the
instep, in a flower. Others hauing straight shooes, claspt vppon the
instep with flowers of golde. Their stockings of silke; some of Purple,
some of Carnation, some of parted collours: such as _Caius Galicola_
neuer first brought vp. Others wearing Buskins, vppon the white swelling
calfes of their legges, and laced with silke; some butned wyt