I say your Shepheard leads your onely merry life, They had not cryd the Forester, And Fisher vp before, So much: but now the Nimphes preferre, The Shephard ten tymes more, 240 And all the Ging goes on his side, Their Minion him they make, To him themselues they all apply'd, And all his partie take; Till some in their discretion cast, Since first the strife begunne, In all that from them there had past None absolutly wonne; That equall honour they should share; And their deserts to showe, 250 For each a Garland they prepare, Which they on them bestowe, Of all the choisest flowers that weare, Which purposly they gather, With which they Crowne them, parting there, As they came first together. The seuenth Nimphall FLORIMEL, LELIPA, NAIJS, CODRVS a Feriman. _The Nimphes, the Queene of loue pursue, Which oft doth hide her from their view: But lastly from th' Elizian Nation, She banisht is by Proclamation_. _Florimel._ Deare _Lelipa_, where hast thou bin so long, Was't not enough for thee to doe me wrong; To rob me of thy selfe, but with more spight To take my _Naijs_ from me, my delight? Yee lazie Girles, your heads where haue ye layd, Whil'st _Venus_ here her anticke prankes hath playd? _Lelipa._ Nay _Florimel_, we should of you enquire, The onely Mayden, whom we all admire For Beauty, Wit, and Chastity, that you Amongst the rest of all our Virgin crue, 10 In quest of her, that you so slacke should be, And leaue the charge to Naijs and to me.