So was it showed in that portraiture, As is depainted in the stars above, Who shall be slain or elles dead for love. Sufficeth one ensample in stories old, I may not reckon them alle though I wold. The statue of Mars upon a carte stood Armed, and looked grim as he were wood,[179] And over his head there shinen two figures Of starres, that be cleped in scriptures,[180] That one Puella, that other Rubeus.[181] This god of armes was arrayed thus: A wolf there stood before him at his feet With eyen red, and of a man he eat: With subtle pencil depainted was this story, In redoubting[182] of Mars and of his glory. Now to the temple of Dian the chaste As shortly as I can I will me haste, To tellen you all the description: Depainted be the walles up and down Of hunting and of shamefast chastity. There saw I how woful Calistope,[183] When that Dian aggrieved was with her, Was turned from a woman to a bear, And after was she made the lodestar[184]: Thus was it painted, I can say no farre[185]; Her son is eke a star as men may see. There saw I Dane yturned till[186] a tree, I meane not the goddesse Diane, But Peneus' daughter, which that highte Dane. There saw I Acteon an hart ymaked,[187] For vengeance that he saw Dian all naked: I saw how that his houndes have him caught, And freten[188] him for that they knew him naught. Yet painted was a little furthermore, How Atalanta hunted the wild boar, And Meleager, and many another mo, For which Diana wrought him care and woe. There saw I many another wonder story, The which me list not drawen to memory. This goddess on an hart full highe seet,[189] With smalle houndes all about her feet, And underneath her feet she had a moon, Waxing it was, and shoulde wanen soon. In gaudy-green[190] her statue clothed was, With bow in hand and arrows in a case. Her eyen caste she full low adown There Pluto hath his darke region. A woman travailing was her beforn, But for her child so longe was unborn Full piteously Lucina[191] gan she call, And saide, "Help, for thou mayst best of all." Well could he painten lifely[192] that it[193] wrought, With many a florin he the hues bought. [135] Lamentation. [136] Lies. [137] Expense. [138] Anxiety. [139] The flower turnsol. [140] Wretched. [141] Slavery. [142] Partnership in power. [143] Guide. [144] Snare. [145] Floating. [146] Musical instrument. [147] Fluttering. [148] Breadth. [149] Interiors. [150] Projecting old roots. [151] Burst. [152] Slope. [153] Burnished. [154] Narrow. [155] Furious rush of wind. [156] Shake. [157] Across and lengthways. [158] Of the circumference of a tun. [159] Burning coal. [160] Coward. [161] Stables. [162] Burning. [163] Contention. [164] Shrieking. [165] Forehead. [166] Prone on back. [167] Madness. [168] Outcry. [169] Corpse.