And after these the Sea Nymphs marched all, xlviii All goodly damzels, deckt with long greene haire, Whom of their sire _Nereides_ men call, All which the Oceans daughter to him bare The gray eyde _Doris_: all which fifty are; All which she there on her attending had. Swift _Proto_, milde _Eucrate_, _Thetis_ faire, Soft _Spio_, sweete _Eudore_[223], _Sao_ sad, Light _Doto_, wanton _Glauce_, and _Galene_ glad. White hand _Eunica_, proud _Dynamene_, xlix Ioyous _Thalia_, goodly _Amphitrite_, Louely _Pasithee_, kinde _Eulimene_, Light foote _Cymothoe_, and sweete _Melite_, Fairest _Pherusa_, _Phao_ lilly white, Wondred _Agaue_, _Poris_, and _Nesæa_, With _Erato_ that doth in loue delite, And _Panopæ_, and wise _Protomedæa_, And snowy neckd _Doris_, and milkewhite _Galathæa_. Speedy _Hippothoe_, and chaste _Actea_, l Large _Lisianassa_, and _Pronæa_ sage, _Euagore_, and light _Pontoporea_, And she, that with her least word can asswage The surging seas, when they do sorest rage, _Cymodoce_, and stout _Autonoe_, And _Neso_, and _Eione_ well in age, And seeming still to smile, _Glauconome_, And she that hight of many heastes _Polynome_. Fresh _Alimeda_, deckt with girlond greene; li _Hyponeo_, with salt bedewed wrests: _Laomedia_, like the christall sheene; _Liagore_, much praisd for wise behests; And _Psamathe_, for her brode snowy brests; _Cymo_, _Eupompe_, and _Themiste_ iust; And she that vertue loues and vice detests _Euarna_, and _Menippe_ true in trust, And _Nemertea_ learned well to rule her lust. All these the daughters of old _Nereus_ were, lii Which haue the sea in charge to them assinde, To rule his tides, and surges to vprere, To bring forth stormes, or fast them to vpbinde,[224] And sailers saue from wreckes of wrathfull winde. And yet besides three thousand more there were Of th’Oceans seede, but[225] _Ioues_ and _Phœbus_ kinde; The which in floods and fountaines doe appere, And all mankinde do nourish with their waters clere. The which, more eath it were for mortall wight, liii To tell the sands, or count the starres on hye, Or ought more hard, then thinke to reckon right. But well I wote, that these which I descry, Were present at this great solemnity: And there amongst the rest, the mother was Of luckelesse _Marinell_ _Cymodoce_. Which, for my Muse her selfe now tyred has, Vnto an other Canto I will ouerpas. FOOTNOTES: [198] i 3 weal-away _1609_ [199] ii 4 dungeon _1609 passim_ [200] iv 5 Gramdame _1596_ [201] 6 seuen] three _1596_ (_Malone 616_), _1609_ [202] vii 1 harke _1609_