uid affecting men's characters and
destiny. Derived from the Latin _influentem_, via French
_influence_}

3 As it in antique books is mentioned.

antique books > ancient books (e.g. _Met._ 1.416-37, _Myth._ 4.13)

4 It was upon a summer's shiny day,
5 When Titan fair his beams did display,

fair > fair (referring to Titan); fairly (adj.)
display > spread out; display

6 In a fresh fountain, far from all men's view,

In > [That in]

7 She bathed her breast, the boiling heat to allay;
8 She bathed with roses red, and violets blue,
9 And all the sweetest flowers that in the forest grew.

306.7

Till faint through irkesome wearinesse, adowne
2 Vpon the grassie ground her selfe she layd
To sleepe, the whiles a gentle slombring swowne
4 Vpon her fell all naked bare displayd;
The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd,
6 Being through former bathing mollifide,
And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd
8 With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide,
That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.

1 Till, faint through irksome weariness, adown

irksome > irksome; weary
adown > down

2 Upon the grassy ground herself she laid
3 To sleep, the whiles a gentle slumbering swoon

the whiles > while; meanwhile

4 Upon her fell, all naked bare displayed;

all > [as she lay all]
displayed > displayed; spread out

5 The sunbeams bright upon her body played
6 (Being through former bathing mollified)

Being > [Her body being]
mollified > softened

7 And pierced into her womb, where they embayed

embayed > {Bathed; also: lay or were trapped within a bay (as a
ship), were shut in}

8 With so sweet sense and secret power unspied,

so > such
sense > {Feeling, sensation; also, perhaps: direction in which
motion takes place, hence: intention, purpose (after French
_sens_)}

9 That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructified.

306.8

Miraculous may seeme to him, that reades
2 So straunge ensample of conception;
But reason teacheth that the fruitfull seades
4 Of all things liuing, through impression
Of the sunbeames in moyst complexion,
6 Doe life conceiue and quickned are by kynd:
So after _Nilus_ invndation,
8 Infinite shapes of +creatures+ men do fynd,
Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.

8 creatures > creature _1596_

1 Miraculous may seem to him that reads

may