Of that good fire: And all shall be so vaine
To place their pleasure in embracing paine.
Thus spake, and laught, of Gods and Men the Sire;
And straight enioyn’d the famous God of fire
To mingle instantly, with Water, Earth;
The voyce, and vigor, of a humane Birth
Imposing in it; And so faire a face,
As matcht th’ Immortall Goddesses in grace:
Her forme presenting a most louely Maid:
Then on Minerua his Command he laid,