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.

Hierusalem.

Hierusalem is feared on two hilles, Of height vnlike, and turned side to side, The space betweene a gentle vallie filles, From mount to mount exspansed faire and wide, Three sides are sure imbarde with crags and hilles, The rest is easie ••cant to rise espide, But mightie bulwarks fence that plainer part, So art helps nature, nature strengthneth art. The towne is storde of troughs and cestornes made, To keepe fresh water, but the countrey seemes Deuoyde of grasse, vnfit for plowmens trade, Not fertill, moyst, with riuers, welles, and streames, There grow few trees, to make the summers shade, To shield the parched land from scorehing beames, Saue that a wood stands sixe miles from the towne, With aged Cedars, darke and shadowes browne: By east among the duskie vallies glide, The siluer streames of Iordanes siler floud, By west the mid-land sea with bounders tyde, O•• sandie showres, where loppa whilom stood, By North Samaria stands, and on that side, The golden Calfe was reard in Bethell wood,

Bethlem by South, where Christ incarnate was, A pearle in steele, a diamond sette in brasse. Ed. Fairfax.