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water of Siloë, whiche evermore floweth with stilnesse and privy
noyse til it come nighe the brinke, and than ginneth it so out of
mesure to bolne, with novelleries of chaunging stormes, that in
course of every renning it is in pointe to spille al his circuit of
†bankes. Thus fayned love prively, at the fullest of his flowinge,
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[ginneth] newe stormes [of] debat to arayse. And al-be-it that
Mercurius [servants] often with hole understandinge knowen
suche perillous maters, yet Veneriens so lusty ben and so leude