Thus passid we forth walkynge vnto the pretory

Where the postis wer enbulyoned with saphiris indy blew,

Englasid glittering with many a clere story;

Iacinctis and smaragdis out of the florthe they grew: 480

Vnto this place all poetis there did sue,

Wherin was set of Fame the noble Quene,

All other transcendynge, most rychely besene,

Vnder a gloryous cloth of astate,

Fret all with orient perlys of Garnate,

Encrownyd as empresse of all this worldly[1603] fate,