107.5

The cause was this: one day when Ph{oe}be fayre
2 With all her band was following the chace,
This Nymph, quite tyr'd with heat of scorching ayre
4 Sat downe to rest in middest of the race:
The goddesse wroth gan fowly +her+ disgrace,
6 And bad the waters, which from her did flow,
Be such as she her selfe was then in place.
8 Thenceforth her waters waxed dull and slow,
And all that drunke thereof, +did+ faint and feeble grow.

5 her > he 1596 9 did > do 1590

1 The cause was this: one day, when Phoebe fair

Phoebe > (A name for Diana in her aspect as goddess of the moon)

2 With all her band was following the chase, 3 This nymph, quite tired with heat of scorching air,

heat > [the heat]

4 Sat down to rest in middest of the race;

middest > the middle

5 The goddess, wroth, gan foully her disgrace,