Was made the most vnpleasant, and most ill.
Meane while, O Clio, lend Calliope thy quill.
Whylome, when IRELAND florished in fame xxxviii
Of wealths[613] and goodnesse, far aboue the rest
Of all that beare the British Islands name,
The Gods then vs’d (for pleasure and for rest)
Oft to resort there-to, when seem’d them best:
But none of all there-in more pleasure found,
Then Cynthia; that is soueraine Queene profest
Of woods and forrests, which therein abound,