Both gifts of God not gotten but from thence,

Both girlonds[193] of his Saints against their foes offence.

Thus sate they all a round in seemely rate: lii

And in the midst of them a goodly mayd,

Euen in the lap of Womanhood there sate,

The which was all in lilly white arayd,

With siluer streames amongst the linnen stray’d;

Like to the Morne, when first her shyning face

Hath to the gloomy world it selfe bewray’d,

That same was fayrest Amoret in place,