lso the triumph
of Vertumnus and Pomona._

By no meanes I was able to resist the violent force of _Cupids_
artillerie, and therefore the elegant Nymph hauing amorously gotten an
irrevocable dominion ouer me a miserable louer, I was inforced to follow
still after hir moderate steps, which led me into a spatious and large
plaine, the conterminate bound of the flowered greene & sweet smelling
vallie, where also ended the adorned mountaines and fruitfull hils,
shutting vp the entrance into this golden countrie, full of incredible
delight with their ioining togither: couered ouer with green trees of a
conspicuous thicknes & distance, as if they had been set by hand, as Yew
trees, wild Pynes, vnfruitfull but dropping Resin, tall pineapple,
straight Firre, burning Pitch trees, the spungie Larix[A], the aierie
Teda[B] beloued of the mountains, celebrated and preserued for the
festiuall Oreades[C]. There both of vs walked in the greene and
flowering plaine, shee being my guide through the high cypres trees, the
broad leaued beech, coole shadie okes full of maste, and other
hornebeames, pricking iuniper, weake hasell, spalt ash, greene lawrell,
and humbryferous esculies, knottie plane trees & lyndens[D] moouing by
the sweet breath of the pleasant Zephirus, whistling through their
tender branches, with a benigne and fauorable impulsion.

[Sidenote A: _Larix_, is a tree hauing leaues like a pine, & good
for building, it will neither rot, woormeate, nor burne to coales.]

[Sidenote B: _Teda_, is a tree out of the which issueth a liquor
more thinne than pitch.]

[Sidenote C: _Oreades_, be countrie Nymphs.]

[Sidenote D: _Lyndens_ or teile trees, in Latin _Tili[ae]_, they
beare a fruit as big as a bean, hauing within seedes like anyse
seeds.]

All which greene trees were not thickly twisted togither, but of a
conuenient distaunce one from another, and all of them so aptly
distributed as to the eie the sight thereof bred great delight.

This place was frequented with countrie Nymphs and _Dryades_[A], their
small and slender wastes being girded with a brayding of tender corules
of sprigs, leaues, and flowers and vpon their heads their rising vp
haires, were compassed about as with garlands. Amongst them were the
horned faunes, and lasciuious satyres, solemnising their faunall feasts,
being assembled togither out of diuers places, within this fertile &
pleasant cuntrie: bearing in their hands s