MUNDI OCULOS 



For which th' Idaean Ladies disagreed, 

 Till partial Paris dempt it Venus dew, 

 And had of her fayre Helen for his meed, 

 That many noble Greekes and Trojans made to 



bleed. r 



EDMUND SPENSER. 



The Faerie Queene, Bk. II, Canto XII. 



The Garden of Adonis 



She brought her to her joyous Paradize, 

 Wher most she wonnes when she on earth does 



dwell ; 



So faire a place as Nature can devize: 

 Whether in Paphos, or Cytheron hill, 

 Or it in Gnidus bee, I wote not well; 

 But well I wote by triall, that this same 

 All other pleasaunt places doth excell, 

 And called is by her lost lover's name, 

 The Gardin of Adonis, far renowned by fame. 



In that same Gardin all the goodly flowres, . 

 Wherewith dame Nature doth her beautify, 

 And decks the girlonds of her Paramoures, 

 Are fetcht: there is the first seminary 



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