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