retie feete from sweate in the
riuer Bagrada. After that I beheld a quaile flying, and a faulcon
pursuing hir: _Erigone_ hauing hir faire shining brest stickt full of
sweete grapes, and the daughter of king _Chollus_ with hir bull,
_Eriphile_ and hir changed husband: The daughter of _Alpes_ and the
virgin _Melantho_ with hir dolphin, _Phyllira_ the daughter of old
_Oceanus_ with the father of _Chiron_. Next hir _Ceres_ with hir head
instrophyated with ripe eares of corne imbracing the scalie _Hydra_: And
the faire Nymph _Lara_ sorting with _Argiphon_: and the sweete _Futurna_
of the riuer _Numicus_.

And whilest I stood with excessiue delight beholding onely as an
ignorant this rare companie and mysticall triumphes, circumsept with
these and such like sorts, and so also the delicious fields, but that me
thought it was a louely sight to behold, and so I should haue continued:
then the gratious Nymph associating and leading me, seeing my
simplicitie and carelesnes, with a ready countenance and sweete and
pleasant words, without asking, she said thus vnto me: My _Poliphilus_,
doest thou see these? (shewing me those of the olde world) these were
beloued of _Iupiter_, and this, and this was such a one, and these were
in loue with him, by this meanes shewing vnto me their high and mighty
linage, and not knowing their names, she in great curtesie told me.
Afterward she shewed me a great number of little virgins, vnder the
gouernment of three sober and discreete matrones the leaders to so great
delight: Adding thereunto very pleasantly (changing hir angellike
countenance) My _Poliphilus_, thou shalt vnderstand, that no earthly
creature can enter in heere without a burning torch as thou seest me,
either with extreeme loue and great paines, or for the fauour and
company of those three matrones. And from hir hart setting a deepe sigh,
she said: This torch haue I brought hither for thy sake, minding to put
it out in yonder temple.

These speeches pearced my hart, they were so delightfull and desired,
and so much the more, bicause she called me hir _Poliphilus_. Whereupon
I assured my selfe, that she was _Polia_, and from top to the toe I
found an extreeme alteration into a supreame delight, my hart flying
onely to hir. Which thoughts were bewraied by my countenance, and
whispering small sighes.

Which she cunningly perceiuing, brake on this new accident with these
words: Oh how many be there which would most gladly behold these