Flesh of the virgin; she is kept within,
Close by her mother, careful of her skin:
[302]Since yet she neuer knew how to enfolde
The force of Venus [303]swimming all in golde.
Whose Snowie bosome choicely washt and balm’d
With wealthy oiles, she keepes the house becalm’d,
All winter’s spight; when in his fire-lesse shed
And miserable roofe still hiding head,
The bonelesse fish doth eat his feet for colde:
To whom the Sunne doth neuer food vnfolde;