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