Till [heauenly] Ioue againe the earth with drowth addrest.
4.
But they alleage agayne their Zone is milde,
And fertile, temperate, meete to foster men:
Our Scythian hilles (they say) are frosty, wilde,
Which cannot breede but ruder people then.
To which I may well aunswere make agen,
[That as Iehoua made the Zones both hot, and milde, and cold,
Euen so to them hee fitly made like men the same to hold.][1088]
5.