[298] iv 2 aduentrous _1609_ [299] 7 from] for _1609_ [300] xiii 9 singulfs _1596_ [301] xvi 7 thing _conj. Church_ [302] xvii 5 Heard] Here _1596_ [303] xix 3 th’euen-tide _1596_ [304] xxiv 1 their] her _1609_ [305] xxv 9 nights] Knight’s _conj. Church_ [306] xxix 2 arm’d _1596_ [307] xxxiv 7 their] that _1609_ [308] xxxv 5 vilde] vile _1609_ _passim_ family _1596_ [309] 9 neither _1609_ _Cant. VII._ [Illustration: _Britomart comes[310] to Isis Church, Where shee strange visions sees: She fights with Radigund, her slaies, And Artegall thence frees._ ] Nought is on earth more sacred or diuine, i That Gods and men doe equally adore, Then this same vertue, that doth right define: For th’heuens themselues, whence mortal men implore Right in their wrongs, are rul’d by righteous lore Of highest Ioue, who doth true iustice deale To his inferiour Gods, and euermore Therewith containes his heauenly Common-weale: The skill whereof to Princes hearts he doth reueale. Well therefore did the antique world inuent, ii That Iustice was a God of soueraine grace, And altars vnto him, and temples lent, And heauenly honours in the highest place; Calling him great _Osyris_, of the race Of th’old Ægyptian Kings, that whylome were; With fayned colours shading a true case: For that _Osyris_, whilest he liued here, The iustest man aliue, and truest did appeare. His wife was _Isis_, whom they likewise made iii A Goddesse of great powre and souerainty, And in her person cunningly did shade That part of Iustice, which is Equity, Whereof I haue to treat here presently. Vnto whose temple when as _Britomart_ Arriued, shee with great humility Did enter in, ne would that night depart; But _Talus_ mote not be admitted to her part. There she receiued was in goodly wize iv Of many Priests, which duely did attend Vppon the rites and daily sacrifize, All clad in linnen robes with siluer hemd; And on their heads with long locks comely kemd, They wore rich Mitres shaped like the Moone, To shew that _Isis_ doth the Moone portend; Like as _Osyris_ signifies the Sunne. For that they both like race in equall iustice runne. The Championesse them greeting, as she could, v Was thence by them into the Temple led; Whose goodly building when she did behould, Borne vppon stately pillours, all dispred With shining gold, and arched ouer hed, She wondred at the workemans passing skill, Whose like before she neuer saw nor red; And thereuppon long while stood gazing still, But thought, that she thereon could neuer gaze her fill.