It beggared all description: she did lie

In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue),

O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see,

The fancy outwork nature; on each side her,

Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,

With diverse coloured fans, whose wind did seem

To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,

And what they undid, did.

Her gentlewomen, like the Nereids,

So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,