There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees;
humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of
silver rivers; meadows enameled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers;
thickets which, being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so
by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; each pasture
stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs,
with bleating oratory, craved the dam’s comfort; here a shepherd’s boy
piping, as though he should never be old; there a young shepherdess
knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her
hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.