Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Smelling.

Next, in the nosthrils she doth vse the Smell, As God the breath of life in them did giue: So makes he now his power in them to dwell, To iudge all aires whereby we breathe and hue. This sence is also mistresse of an art, Which to soft people sweet petfumes doth sell: Through this deare art doth little good impart, Since they smell best that doth of nothing smell. And ye good sents do purifie the braine, Awake the fancie, and the wittes refine: Hence old deuotion in aduise did ordaine, To make mens spirits more apt to thoughts diuine. I. Dauies.

Likewise that same third fort that is the smell, Of that third troupe was cruelly assaide: Whose hideous shapes were like to fiends of hell. Some like to hounds, some like to apes dismaide. Some like to puttocks all in plumes arraide, All shapte according their conditions, For by those ougly formes werren portraide Foolish delights and fond abusions, Which do that sence besiege with light illusiōs. Ed. Sp.