In ages passèd bravely crowned with wood,

Which lending cold-sweet shadows gave it grace

To be accounted Cynthia's bathing-place;

And from her father Neptune's brackish court,

Fair Thetis thither often would resort,

Attended by the fishes of the sea,

Which in those sweeter waters came to plea.

There would the daughter of the Sea God dive,

And thither came the Land Nymphs every eve

To wait upon her: bringing for her brows