Till faint through yrkesome wearines, adowne The sunbeames bright upon her body playd, And pierst into her wombe; where they embayd With so sweet sence and secret powre unspide, That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide. Miraculous may seeme to him that reades So straunge ensample of conception; Infinite shapes of creatures men doe fynd 7 Informed in the mud on which the Sunne hath shynd. Great father he of generation Is rightly cald, th' authour of life and light; Ministreth matter fit, which, tempred right 9 With heate and humour, breedes the living wight. Which still increast till she her terme had full outgone. Whereof conceiving shame and foule disgrace, ΤΟ THE ALDINE EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER IN FIVE VOLUMES VOL. III |