About the fountaine like a girlond made;

Whose bubbling waue did euer freshly well,

Ne euer would through feruent sommer fade:

The sacred Nymph, which therein wont to dwell,

Was out of Dianes fauour, as it then befell.

The cause was this: one day when Phœbe fayre v

With all her band was following the chace,

This Nymph, quite tyr’d with heat of scorching ayre

Sat downe to rest in middest of the race:

The goddesse wroth gan fowly her[232] disgrace,