And though her beautie were exceeding rare,

Yet Rome’s Lucretia for a sober eie

So far renown’d, with her might not compare,

Nor the Greekes constant queene Penelope,

Might match this maiden queene for modestie:

For Phœbe’s selfe did want her gouernance

In modest gesture and chaste countenance.

19.

Thus heau’n and nature hauing shew’d their skill

In perfecting a creature so diuine,