Did spred it selfe, to serue to all delight,
Either to daunce, when they to daunce would faine,
Or else to course about[558] their bases light;
Ne ought there wanted, which for pleasure might[559]
Desired be, or thence to banish bale:
So pleasauntly the hill with equall hight,
Did seeme to ouerlooke the lowly vale;
Therefore it rightly cleeped was mount Acidale.
They say that Venus, when she did dispose ix
Her selfe to pleasaunce, vsed to resort