With many moe lay in ambushment there,

Awayting to entrap the warelesse wight,

Which did not them preuent with vigilant foresight.

Thus hauing past all perill, I was come xxi

Within the compasse of that Islands space;

The which did seeme vnto my simple doome,

The onely pleasant and delightfull place,

That euer troden was of footings trace.

For all that nature by her mother wit

Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base,