Gower, in his tale of Narcissus, professedly from Ovid, says—

“——As he cast his loke

Into the well,——

He sawe the like of his visage,

And wende there were an ymage

Of such a nymphe, as tho was faye.”

(_Confessio amantis_, fo. 20, b.)

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