19 Of the SilJ^e wpornes 
iWUcm. Since which time eke fome other (i) Authors faine^ 
ub.yh.Mytin. Their humming foulcs about thefe haplcflc trees 
To be tranfported from th’Elyfian plaine. 
Into the fnowy milke-whiteEutterflyes: 
Whofefeedes when life and moouing they obtain, 
Howe’rc they fpare the fruit of Mulberies^ 
Leauc yet no leaues vntorne that may be fecnc* 
Becaufe they onely {fill cominude greene. 
Yet that there might remain cfome Pyrmis 
And euerlafting firine of Pyrams loucy 
When leaues are gonc,and hammer warning is. 
The little creepers neuer ccafe to moue. 
But day and night (placing in toyle their bliffe) 
Spinne hike this tree beneath and eke abouc: 
Leauing their ouall (z) bottoms there behind. 
To fiicwe the Bate of eu’ry Louers mind. 
For as in forme they are not wholly round. 
As is the perfit figure of the skie. 
So perfit loue in mortals is not found. 
Some little warts or wants in all we fpie, 
Nay cu n as fine and couife fiike there abound. 
The bell beneath^the worft roJd vp more hie. 
So fometimes lull o’rc-iieth honell loue, * . 
Happy the baud that keepes it from abouc, 
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