On th’other side an high rocke toured still,

That twixt them both a pleasaunt[839] port they made,

And did like an halfe Theatre fulfill:

There those fine sisters had continuall trade,

And vsd to bath[840] themselues in that deceiptfull[841] shade.

They were faire Ladies, till they fondly striu’d xxxi

With th’Heliconian maides for maistery;

Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d

Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity

Transform’d to fish, for their bold surquedry,