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THE FIRST PART OF THE FIRST BOOKE of the Morall English Arcadia, alluding his beginning from Sir Philip Sidneyes ending.
AT such time as the flowers appearing vpon the earth, had summoned the ayrie quiristers to entertaine the first Embas∣sadors of the Spring, and that Nature (deliuered frō the bar∣raine wombe of Winter) had shewed her selfe lyuelie as the morning, faire as the nightes Gouernesse, pure as the Sunne, and as almighty as an ar∣mye of inuincible fortune: The vnhappy and forlorne Shepheard Credulo being come to the foot of the moun∣taine Tagetus, from whose large distributed skirts, ranne an euen and wel leuiled plaine, through which the siluer-flowing Erimanthus had made many curious and enter∣changeable windinges, till she deliuered the abundance of her tribute into the bosome of the Oceās vnruly trea∣surie: and being arryued at the vtmost of the earths pro∣specte, he encountred with his companion (both in for∣tunes and desires) the forsaken Carino, whose eyes (long