And when that piteous spectacle they viewed,

The same with bitter tears they all bedewed.

And every one did make exceeding moan,

With inward anguish and great grief opprest;

And every one did weep and wail and moan,

And means devised to show his sorrow best.

That from that hour since first on grassy green,

Shepherds kept sheep; was not like mourning seen.

But first his sister that Clorinda hight,