Revels, dances, masks and merry hours
Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.
IV, 3, 379.
The latter quotation is interesting on account of its having been quoted in an extremely valuable anthology in the last year of the sixteenth century. This publication being of such extreme interest I shall transcribe the title page in full.
ENGLANDS
PARNASSUS
OR
The choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets with their Poetical comparisons, Descriptions of Beauties, Personages, Castles, Pallaces, Mountaines, Groves, Seas, Springs, Rivers, &c.
Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasant and profitable.