And Nemertea learned well to rule her lust.
All these the daughters of old Nereus were, lii
Which haue the sea in charge to them assinde,
To rule his tides, and surges to vprere,
To bring forth stormes, or fast them to vpbinde,[224]
And sailers saue from wreckes of wrathfull winde.
And yet besides three thousand more there were
Of th’Oceans seede, but[225] Ioues and Phœbus kinde;
The which in floods and fountaines doe appere,
And all mankinde do nourish with their waters clere.