Nile the sweet green reed,

Or Kashmiri silk, or musk-bags, or coral,

or cardamum seed?”

I was loath from all that Pleasaunce of

the Sun and his words and ways,

To come to my country giftless, and showing

no fruit of my days:

But, if my hands were empty of honey,

and pearls and gold,

There were treasures far sweeter than