That forced them to seeke some couert bowre,

Where they might hide their heads in quiet rest,

And shrowd their persons from that stormie stowre.

Not farre away, not meete for any guest

They spide a little cottage, like some poore mans nest.

Vnder a steepe hilles side it placed was, xxxiii

There where the mouldred earth had cav’d the banke;

And fast beside a little brooke did pas

Of muddie water, that like puddle stanke,

By which few crooked sallowes grew in ranke: