whatsoeuer furie the
harpe of _Orpheus_ woulde prouoke, and the fowle and euill fauoured face
of _Medusa_, to make any horrible monster tame and tractable, and to
stop the continuall prouocation of the deuouring _Scylla_. Some rested
their heads in the chaste laps of their faire loues, recounting the
pleasaunt deuises of _Iupiter_, and they instrophyating their curled
locks with sweete smelling flowers.

Others of them fained that they were forsaken, and seemed to flie and go
awaie from them, whom dearely they did affect, and then was there
running one after another with loud laughters, and effeminate criengs
out, their faire tresses spredding downe ouer their snowie shoulders
like threeds of gold, bound in laces of greene silke: Some loose after a
Nymphish maner, others bounde vp in attyres of golde set with pearle.
Afterwards comming neere togither, they would stowpe downe, and twiching
vp the sweete flowers with their faire and tender fingers, fling the
same in the faces of their pursuing louers with great pleasure and
solace, maintaining their fained disgracings.

Others with great curtesie were putting of Rose leaues one after another
into their laced brests, adding after them sweete kisses, some giuing
their louers (if ouer-bold) vpon the cheekes with their harmles palmes
pretie ticks, making them red like the wheeles of _Phoebus_ in a faire
and cleere morning: with other new and vnthought contentions, such as
loue could deuise. They all being pleasant, merrie, and disposed to
delight: Their gestures and motions girlish, and of a virgineall
simplicitie, putting on sincere loue without the offence of honorable
vertue: Free and exempt from the occursion of griefe or emulation of
aduers fortune: Sitting vnder the shade of the weeping sister of the
whited _Phaeton_, and of the immortall _Daphne_ and hairie pineapple
with small and sharpe leaues, streight Cyprus, greene Orenge trees, and
tall Cedars, and others most excellent, abounding with greene leaues,
sweete flowers, and pleasant fruits still flourishing in such sort as is
inestimable, euenly disposed vpon the gratious banks, & orderly growing
in a moderat distance vpon thee grassie ground, inuested with green
Vinca peruince or laurel. What hart is so cold and chilling, that would
not be stirred vp to heate, manifestly beholding the delightfull duties
of reciprocall loue, such as I was perswaded would haue kindled _Diana_
hir selfe?

Whereupon I was bold to she