Yea, had not Nature stayed them, had done more.

This was a sight, whose eyes had never seen;

This was a voice, such music ne'er was heard;

This Paradise was it, where who had been,

Might well have thought of hell, and not afeard.

Sure, hell itself was heaven, in this sphere,

Madmen, wild beasts, and all here tamèd were.

Like as a king, his chair of state ascendeth,

Being newly made a god upon the earth,

In state amounts, till step by step he endeth,