Fiue damsels did attend on her, who with such wondrous skill
Do in their seuerall functions worke, to serue their ladie’s will,
That what she seekes on earth, to see, to heare, smell, taste or touch,
They can present the same with speed, their power and skill are such:
As in amazement at such sight I in my bed did lie,
She thus bespake: “I am,” quoth she, “the ladie Memorie,
Ioue’s welbelou’d Mnemosyne, that keepes the wealthie store
Of time’s rich treasure, where the deeds that haue been done of yore
I do record, and when in bookes I chance to find the fame
Of any after death decai’d, I do reuiue the same: