Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red,
And oft young birds, which he had taught to sing
His mistresse[1018] prayses, sweetly caroled,
Girlonds of flowres sometimes for her faire hed
He fine would dight; sometimes the squirell wild
He brought to her in bands, as conquered
To be her thrall, his fellow seruant vild;
All which, she of him tooke with countenance meeke and mild.
But past awhile, when she fit season saw xviii
To leaue that desert mansion, she cast