Her opall colours in her easterne throne;

It was my chance in walking all alone,

That ancient castle-crowned hill to scale,

Which proudly ouerlookes the lowly vale,

Where great Elizae’s birth-blest palace stands,

Gainst which great Thames cast vp his golden sands.

There when I came, from thence I might descrie

The sweetest prospects, that the curious eie

Of any one did euer elsewhere see,

So pleasant at that time they seem’d to mee: