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Also where the water in those valleis can haue no such passage away, by the continuance of time in such order as is before rehearsed, the yeerely descent from the mountaines filleth them full, that at the lowest banke of the same, they fall into the valley, and so continue as fishing Ponds or Stagnes in Summer time full of water, and in the Winter hard frosen: as by skarres that remaine thereof in Summer may easily be perceiued: so that the heat of Summer is nothing comparable or of force to dissolue the extremitie of cold that commeth in Winter.

There are 'the humble valleis, whose base estate semed comforted with refreshing of silver rivers, and the 'thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to by the chereful deposition of many wel-tuned birds'; there are the pastures where 'the prety lambs with bleting oratory craved the dams comfort, where sat the young shepherdess knitting, whose 'voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voices musick, a country where the scattered houses made 'a shew, as it were, of an accompanable solitarines, and of a civil wildnes, where lastly si sic omnia! was the 'shepheards boy piping, as though he should never be old. It must not be supposed that these are occasional embroideries; they are the very cloth of which the whole pastoral habit is made.

Then enhabited thei more thicke, and spred themselues ouer all, and buylte euery where. Of Tounes, thei made cities, and of villages, Tounes, Castles vpon the rockes, and in the valleis made thei the temples of the goddes. The golden graueled springes, thei encurbed with Marblo, and with trees right pleasauntlie shadowed them aboute.