ABSTRACT
The Two Gentlemen of Verona [In the Second Book of Part One the Shepherdess Selvagia and her friends Sylvanus and Syrenus wander through the woodland towards the Fountain of the Sycamores.]
'Let us go,' said Selvagia; and so step by step, they went towards the place where they heard that singing, and hiding themselves behind certaine trees neere unto the brook, they saw three Nymphes sitting upon the golden flowers, of such excellent beauty that (it seemed) nature had made a manifest proofe of that she was able to do. They were -apparelled with upper garments of white silke, wrought all above with fringe of gold, their haire, (which in brightncs obscured the sunnie beames) was tied about their heads with fillets of orientall pearle, whose curled lockes upon their christalline foreheads made a fine periwig; just in the midst whereofhung downe an Eagle of gold, holding betweene her talons a rich and pretious Diamond. All three with marvellous good consent so sweetly plaied on their instruments whereunto they joyned their Angclicall voices, that it seemed no Jesse then celestiall musickc, and the first thing they sung, was this fancie.
