O’er picturing that Venus where we see

The fancy outwork nature: on each side her

Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids

With divers-colour’d fans, whose wind did seem

To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,

And what they undid did

Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides

So many mermaids, tended her i’ the eyes

And made their bends adornings: at the helm

A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle