When in this city shoutes aloude they make, Or when the trompets sounde therein is herde, The _Ecchoes_ shrill so cause the skies to shake, That straungers staring stand and muse afferde: The wordes and tunes resounde agayne so harde, So often times aboute from euery rocke so playne, As if to one that cryde a thousand cryde[629] to him agayne. 73. This made the men that came from farre to maze, To maruayle much, to feare and wonder still, And at the syte thereof to stare and gaze, Deuising ofte the stately high and mighty hill, A building founded first by heauenly skill, In citye [fayrely] builte and costly grande with worke of hande, _Apolloe’s_ temple highe [to heauen] aboue the rest doth stande. 74. ’Tis rownde theater wise so braue within, And large aloft without, pendant vpright, So high it seemes impossible to winne, With comely forme the gazers to delight, The maiesty whereof [(I weene)] did them inuite That chose that seate, to dedicate a temple[630] in the same, Whereof for Oracles was spred through all the world the fame.[631] 75. Amidste the height of this _Parnasus_ mount, A turning wey there is, and in the playne A denne through rockes for deepenesse doth surmount, And turning vaults far in, whence aunsweres vayne The priests receiue from sprits to tell agayne When any come for counsayle there of things to [come to] knowe: Th’insensate priests the aunsweres of deluding sprits doe showe.[632] 76. Wherefore the Kings and peoples offerings brought, From all the world and coasts of nations far Which many gifts of gold and siluer wrought, The statures of the Gods and iewells rich there wer.[633] To _Delphos_ all they runne in any doubte which ar,[634] This was the madnesse tho[635] that mortall men bewicht Whereby _Apolloe’s_ temple was and _Delphos_ so inricht.[636] 77. Low nowe [in fewe,] I tell at _Delphos_ what I did, For towardes it as with my mates I went, Them bee of courage good and nothing feare I bid,[637] I told them, with the spoile,[638] them to reward I ment: But now I askte how they would giue consent The captaynes _Euridane_ and _Thessalone_ companions in the pray,[639] Where it were good [straight now] to scale, or else a while to stay. 78.