_Louely a Lasse, so loued a Lasse, and (alas) such a louing_ _Lasse, for a while (but a while) was none such a sweet bonny Loue-Lasse_ _As_ Helen, Mænelaus _louing, lou'd, loulie a loue-lasse,_ _Till spightfull Fortune from a loue-lasse made her a loue-lesse_ _Wife. From a wise woman to a witles vvanton abandond,_ _When her mate (vnawares) made warres in_ Peloponessus,_ _Adultrous_ Paris (_then a Boy_) _kept sheepe as a shepheard_ _On_ Ida _Mountaine, vnknowne to the King for a Keeper_ _Of sheep, on_ Ida _Mountaine, as a Boy, as a shepheard:_ _Yet such sheep he kept, and was so seemelie a shepheard,_ _Seemlie a Boy, so seemlie a youth, so seemlie a Younker,_ _That on_ Ida _was not such a Boy, such a youth, such a Younker._ _Sonne now reconcil'd to the Father, fained a letter_ _Sent him by_ Iupiter (_the greatest God in_ Olympus) _For to repaire with speede to the brauest Græcian Hauen, And to redeeme againe_ Hesyone _latelie reuolted From_ Troy _by_ Aiax, _whom she had newly betrothed. Well, so well he told his tale to his Aunt_ Amaryllis _That_ Amaryllis, _(his Aunt,) obtaind aid of his aged Syre, that he sent him a ship, and made Capten of_ Argus. _Great store went to Greece with lust-bewitched_ Alexis, Telamour, _and_ Tydias: _with these he sliceth the salt seas, The salt seas slicing, at length he comes to the firme land, Firme land an auntient Iland cald old_ Lacedæmon. Argus _(eye full Earle) when first the ken of a Castle He had spide bespake: (to the Mate, to the men, to the Mates-man) Lo behold of Greece (quoth he) the great_ Cytadella. (_Ycleaped_ Menela) _so tearmed of_ Deliaes _Husband: Happie_ Helen, _Womens most woonder, beautifull_ Helen. _Oh would God (quoth he) with a flattring Tongue he repeated: Oh would God (quoth he) that I might deserue to be husband To such a happie huswife, to such a beautifull_ Helen. _This he spake to intice the minde of a lecherous young-man: But what spurres need now, for an vntam'd Titt to be trotting: Or to add old Oile to the flame, new flaxe to the fier:_ Paris _heard him hard, and gaue good eare to his hearkening: And then his loue to a lust, his lust was turnd to a fier, Fier was turnd to a flame, and flame was turnd to a burning Brand: and mothers Dreame was then most truelie resolued. Well so far th'are come, that now th'are come to the Castle, Castle all of stone, yet euery stone vvas a Castle: Euerie foote had a Fort, and euerie Fort had a fountaine, Euerie fountaine a spring, and euerie spring had a spurting Streame: so strong without, vvithin, so stately a building, Neuer afore vvas seene; If neuer afore_ Polyphœbe _Was seene: vvas to be seene, if nere to be seene vvas_ Olympus. _Flovvers vvere framd of flints, Walls, Rubies, Rafters of Argent: