Was (as in stories it is written found)

For that his mother, which him bore and bred,

The most fine-fingred workwoman on ground,

Arachne, by his meanes was vanquished

Of Pallas, and in her owne skill confound,

When she with her for excellence contended,

That wrought her shame, and sorrow never ended.

For the Tritonian goddesse having hard

Her blazed fame, which all the world had fild,

Came downe to prove the truth, and due reward