VI + 

Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn, + 

And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade, + 

When Cytherea, all in love forlorn, + 

A longing tarriance for Adonis made + 

Under an osier growing by a brook, + 

A brook where Adon used to cool his spleen: + 

Hot was the day; she hotter that did look + 

For his approach, that often there had been. + 

Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by, + 

And stood stark naked on the brook’s green brim: + 

The sun look’d on the world with glorious eye, + 

Yet not so wistly as this queen on him. + 

He, spying her, bounced in, whereas he stood: + 

“O Jove,” quoth she, “why was not I a flood!” + 