For ever with a flowring girlond crownd:
Or like that pleasaunt Mount,[°] that is for ay
Through famous Poets verse each where renownd,
On which the thrise three learned Ladies play
Their heavenly notes, and make full many a lovely lay.
LV
From thence, far off he unto him did shew
A litle path, that was both steepe and long,
Which to a goodly Citie[°] led his vew;