And creeping sought way in the weedy gras:
Her filthy parbreake all the place defiled has.
XXI
As when old father Nilus[°] gins to swell
With timely pride above the Aegyptian vale,
His fattie waves do fertile slime outwell,
And overflow each plaine and lowly dale:
But when his later spring gins to avale,
Huge heapes of mudd he leaves, wherein there breed