nd flourishing plaine: Some instrophiated with
laurel, some with myrtle, and others with other sorts of flowers and
garlands, incessantly without any wearines or intermission in a
perfection of the felicitie of this world, mutually enioying one
anothers aspect and companie.

_The Nymph hauing at large declared vnto Poliphilus the mysticall
triumphs and extreeme loue, afterwards she desired him to go on
further, where also with great delight he beheld innumerable other
Nymphs, with their desired louers, in a thousand sorts of pleasures
solacing themselues vpon the greene grasse, fresh shadowes, and by
the coole riuers and cleere fountaines. And how Poliphilus there had
with madnes almost forgotten himselfe in the passions of desire, but
hope did asswage his furie, quieting himselfe in the beholding of the
sweete sauour of the faire Nymph._

Not onely happie but aboue all other most happie were he, to whom it
should be granted continually by speciall fauour to beholde the glorious
pompe, high triumphs, beautiful places, sweet scituations, togither with
the goddesses, halfe goddesses, faire Nymphes of incredible delight and
pleasure, but especially to be seconded and accompanied with so
honorable a Nymph of so rare and excellent beautie. And this I thought
not to be the least and smallest point of my felicitie. Now hauing
looked vpon these sights, I remained a great space recording of the
same, being therewith beyonde measure abundantly contented.

Afterwards, the faire and sweet damsell my guide said thus vnto me:
_Poliphilus_, let vs now go on a little further. And then immediately we
tended our walke toward the fresh fountains and shady riuers, compassing
about the flourshing fields with chrystalline currents and gratious
streames.

In which cleare water, grew the purple flowering sonne of the Nymph
_Liriope_, looking vp from his tender stringes and leaues. And al the
faire riuers were ful of other flowers sweetlie growing among their
greene and fresh leaues. This delightfull place was of a spatious and
large circuit, compassed about and inuironed with wooddie mountaines, of
a moderate height of greene lawrell, fruitefull memerels, hearie & high
pine trees, and within the cleere channels, with graueled banks, and in
some places the bottom was faire soft yealow sande, where the water ran
swifte, and the three leaued driope grew.

There were a great companie of delicate faire Nymphs of tender