8 Had virtue poured into their waters base,
virtue > efficacy, power; occult power
9 And thenceforth were renowned, and sought from place to place.
202.7
Such is this well, wrought by occasion straunge,
2 Which to her Nymph befell. Vpon a day,
As she the woods with bow and shafts did raunge,
4 The hartlesse Hind and Robucke to dismay,
Dan Faunus chaunst to meet her by the way,
6 And kindling fire at her faire burning eye,
Inflamed was to follow beauties +chace+,
8 And chaced her, that fast from him did fly;
As Hind from her, so she fled from her enimy.
7 chace > pray sugg. Collier, after a note by Drayton in a copy of the 1611 edition
1 "Such is this well, wrought by occasion strange
well > spring; spring with supernatural powers occasion > incident, juncture of circumstances
2 Which to its nymph befell. Upon a day,
nymph > (Nymphs are the minor female divinities with whom the Greeks peopled all parts of nature: the seas, springs, rivers, grottoes, trees, mountains. The nymph referred to here is one of the naiads, nymphs of fresh water. Many of these presided over springs which were believed to inspire those who drank the water)