Ioues dearest darling, she was bred and nurst

On Cynthus hill, whence she her name did take:

Then is she mortall borne, how-so ye crake;

Besides, her face and countenance euery day

We changed see, and sundry forms partake,

Now hornd, now round, now bright, now brown and gray:

So that as changefull as the Moone men vse to say.

Next, Mercury, who though he lesse appeare li

To change his hew, and alwayes seeme as one;

Yet, he his course doth altar euery yeare,