The cruell season, bidding mee withholde

My selfe within, for I was gotten out

Into the fieldes, wheras I walkt[1490] about.

4.

When loe the night with misty mantels spred

Gan darke the day, and dim the azure skies,[1491]

And Venus in her message Hermes sped

To bloudy Mars, to will him not to rise,

While shee her selfe approacht in speedy wise:

And Virgo hyding her disdaynefull brest,