Framed in goldsmithes forge with cunning hand:

Yet goldsmithes cunning could not vnderstand

To frame such subtile wire, so shinie cleare.

For it did glister like the golden sand,

The which Pactolus with his waters shere,

Throwes forth vpon the riuage round about him nere.

And as his hand he vp againe did reare, xxi

Thinking to worke on her his vtmost wracke,

His powrelesse arme benumbd with secret feare

From his reuengefull purpose shronke abacke,