XXXIII
SONNET.

Alexis, here she stayed; among these pines,

Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair;

Here did she spread the treasure of her hair,

More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines.

She sat her by these muskèd eglantines, 5

The happy place the print seems yet to bear;

Her voice did sweeten here thy sugared lines,

To which winds, trees, beasts, birds did lend an ear.

Me here she first perceived, and here a morn