Besides through sicknesse now so wan and weake,

That nothing meet in marchandise to passe.

So shew’d them her, to proue how pale and weake she was.

The sight of whom, though now decayd and mard, xiii

And eke but hardly seene by candle-light,

Yet like a Diamond of rich regard,

In doubtfull shadow of the darkesome night,

With starrie beames about her shining bright,

These marchants fixed eyes did so amaze,

That what through wonder, and what through delight,