That being free from feare and gealosye,

Might frankely there their loues desire possesse;

Whilest I through paines and perlous ieopardie,

Was forst to seeke my lifes deare patronesse:

Much dearer be the things, which come through hard distresse.

Yet all those sights, and all that else I saw, xxix

Might not my steps withhold, but that forthright

Vnto that purposd place I did me draw,

Where as my loue was lodged day and night:

The temple of great Venus, that is hight