My second toyles, more flash flowne praise to wed;

Nay; there was reason, and the cause is Knowne

For Courtly crosses, seldome stay unshowne:

Well, I am sped; through Belgia then I trace;

And footing Rhyne, to Geneve kept my pace,

[VIII. 340.]Thence cross’d I Sinais, Po, and Lombard bounds,

The hils Appenine, the Ætrurian rounds:

And nighting Rome, Parthenope I past,

Even to Rhegio, of Townes Calabriaes last:

Whence Sicily I view’d, and Ætna Mount;