Of sundry flowres, with silken ribbands tyde[544],

Yclad in home-made greene that her owne hands had dyde.

Vpon a litle hillocke she was placed viii

Higher then all the rest, and round about

Enuiron’d with a girland, goodly graced,

Of louely lasses, and them all without

The lustie shepheard swaynes sate in a rout,

The which did pype and sing her prayses dew,

And oft reioyce, and oft for wonder shout,

As if some miracle of heauenly hew