s of diuers
fashions and maner of windings, sagbuts and flutes. Others with heauenly
voices singing with ineffable delights, and exceeding solace, past mans
reason to imagine: within them passed about the glorious triumphs,
turning vpon the florulent ground, and green swoord, a place dedicated
to the happie, without anie stub or tree, but the fielde was as a plaine
coequate medowe of sweete hearbes and pleasaunt flowers, of all sorts of
colours, and sundry varieng fashions, yeelding so fragrant a smell as is
possible to speake of, not burnt with the extreeme heat of the sunne,
but moderate, the ground moystened with sweete ryuers, the aire pure and
cleane, the daies all alike, the earth continually greene, the spring
neuer decaieng but renuing, the coole grasse with variable flowers like
a painting, remaining alwaies vnhurt, with their deawie freshnesse,
reseruing and holding their colours without interdict of time. There
grewe the fower sortes of Violets, Cowslops, Melilots, Rose Parsley or
Passeflower, Blew bottles, Gyth, Ladies seale, Vatrachium, Aquilegia,
Lillie conually, Amaranth, Flower gentle, Ideosmus, all sorts of sweete
pinks, and small flowring hearbs of odoriferous fragrancie and smell,
Roses of Persia, hauing the smel of muske and Amber, and innumerable
sorts of others without setting, but naturally growing in a woonderfull
distribution, peeping out from their greene leaues, and barbs very
delightfull to behold.

In this place I might see goodly braue women as the Archadian _Calisto_
the daughter of _Lycaon_, with the vnknowen _Diana_. The Lesbian
_Antiopa_ daughter to _Nycteus_, and mother to _Amphion_ and _Zeteus_
that built Thebes, with hir satyre. _Issa_ the daughter of _Machareus_
with hir shepheard. _Antichia_ the daughter of _Aecus_ and yoong
_Danae:_. _Asterie_ the daughter to _C[ae]us_, and _Alchmena_ with hir
fained husband. Afterward I beheld the pleasant _[Ae]gina_ solacing hir
selfe with the cleere flood and diuine fire. The daughter of _Fullus_
and that of _Menemphus_, with hir counterfeit father, and that other of
_Diodes_ with hir lap full of flowers and a writhing serpent, and the
faire yoong gyrle no more sorrowing for the growing of hir hornes.
_Astiochia_ and _Antigone_ the daughter of _Laomedon_ solaciously
delighting hir selfe in hir storkish plumes, and _Lurisile_ the first
inuentrix of wheeles. _Garamantide_ the dauncing Nymph holding by hir
little finger, and washing hir delicate p