The menes[1748] to fynde

To please my mynde,

In helpyng to warke my laurell grene

With sylke and golde:

Galathea, the made well besene,

Was neuer halfe so fayre, as I wene,

Whiche was extolde

A thowsande folde

By Maro, the Mantuan prudent, 1080

Who list to rede;