That all the rest like lesser lamps did dim.”
(VI. ix. 9.)
And yet as she stands on the little hillock she is encompassed with a cloud of glory.
“Upon a litle hillocke she was placed
Higher then all the rest, and round about
Environ’d with a girland, goodly graced,
Of lovely lasses, and them all without
The lustie shepheard swaynes sate in a rout;
The which did pype and sing her prayses dew,
And oft rejoyce, and oft for wonder shout,