Shortly into the wastefull woods she came,
Whereas she found the goddesse with her crew,
After late chase of their embrewed game,
Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew;
Some of them washing with the liquid dew
From off their dainty limbs the dusty sweat
And soyle, which did deforme their lively hew;
Others lay shaded from the scorching heat;
The rest upon her person gave attendance great.
She, having hong upon a bough on high
Her bow and painted quiver, had unlaste
Her silver buskins from her nimble thigh,
And her lank loynes ungirt, and brests unbraste,
After the heat the breathing cold to taste;
Her golden lockes, that late in tresses bright
Embreaded were for hindring of her haste,
Now loose about her shoulders hong undight,
And were with swet ambrosia all besprinkled light.
(Liv. III. chant vi.)
With that, her glistring helmet she unlaced;
Which doft, her golden lockes, that were up bound
Still in a knot, unto her heeles down traced,
And like a silken veile in compasse round
About her back and all her bodie wound;
Like as the shining skie in summers night,
What times the dayes with scorching heat abound,
Is creasted all with lines of firie light,
That it prodigious seemes in common people sight.
(Liv. IV, ch. I, str. 13.)
Her golden locks, that were in tramells gay
Up bounden, did themselves adowne display
And raught unto her heeles; like sunny beames
That in a cloud their light did long time stay,
Their vapour vaded, shewe their golden gleames,
And through the azure aire shooke forth their persant streames.
(Liv. III, ch. IX, 20.)
A teme of Dolphins raunged in aray
Drew the smooth charett of sad Cymoent.
They were all taught by Triton to obay
To the long raynes at her commaundement.
As swift as swallows on the waves they went.
That their broad flaggy finnes no fome did reare,
Ne bubbling rowndell they behinde them sent;
The rest of other fishes drawen weare
Which with their finny oars the swelling sea did sheare.