This female was to Freya unlike in mind and grace,

Yet wit she had and vigour, nor homely was her face:

When mounted on her courser in the dark stormy night,

Under her sable head-dress her eyes gave dazzling light.

Though with impure old witches she revels in the wood,

Yet she herself was blooming in health and youthful blood:

On her fair cheek the tempest the rose’s hue bestow’d;

Her hair adown her shoulders in jetty ringlets flow’d.

Like two white foaming billows her bosom swell’d half-bared;

Her arms smooth and well-rounded; her flesh was plump and hard: