As at that time in walking to and fro,
I 'bout this pleasant place alone did goe,
Each obiect of the same all suddenlie
Seemd strangelie metamorphiz’d to myne eye;
The Helliconian spring, that did proceed
From th’hoofe of Pegasus that heauenlie steed,
And those pure streames of virgin Castalie,
The place of Ioue’s nine daughters nurserie,
Did seeme to haue resign’d their proper place,
Transported thither to that land’s disgrace: