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.

Error.

— His gliste••ing armour made

A little glooming light, much like a shade: By which she saw the vgly monster plaine, Halfe like a serpent, horribly displaied, But th'other halfe did womans shape retaine, Most loathsome, filthy, foule, and full of vile disdaine. And as she lay vpon the dyrtie ground, Her huge long taile, her den all ouerspred, Yet was in knots, and many bouts vpwound: Pointed with mortall sting: of her there bred A thousand yoong ones, which she daily fed, Sucking vpon her poysoned dugges, each one Of sundrie shapes, yet all ill sauoured. Soone as the vncouth light vpon them shone, Into her mouth they crept, and suddenly were gone. Ed. Spencer.

To erre is proper vnto men, and but brutish to persist▪ W. Warner.

— Errors are no errors, but by fate, For oft the euent makes foule faults fortunate. S. Daniell.

— Errors left vnpunisht, are profest, And being not defended, are opprest. Ch. Middleton.

To heare good counsell, error neuer loues. D. Lodge.

— Errors are hardly moued, That loue doth breed in an vnaduised brest. S. I. H. Transl.

A stony coldnesse hath benumbde the sence, And liuely spirits of each liuing wight, And dim'd with darknesse their intelligence, Darkenes more then Cymerians day by night,

And monsters Error flying in the aire, Hath mar'd the face of all that seemeth faire. Ed. Spencer.