THE SIXTH PART
Now come my swift pac’d feete, to Syons seate,
And faire Jerusalem: heere to relate
Her sacred Monuments, and these sweet places,
Were fil’d with Prophets, and Apostles faces:
Christs Crub at Bethleem, and Maries Cave,
Calvar, and Golgotha, the Holy Grave:
Deepe Adraes valley, Hebrons Patriarch’d Tombe,
Sunke Lazars pit, whence hee rose from earths wombe:
Judeas bounds, and Desarts; that smoaking Lake
Which orient folkes do still for Sodome take.
Thence view’d I Jordan, and his mooddy streames,
Whence I a Rod, did bring to Royall James.
[VI. 238.]The lumpe falne Jerico, and th’ Olive Mount,
With Gethesamaine, where Christ to pray was wont:
The Arabian desarts, then Egypt land
I toyling saw, with Nylus swelling strand:
Where for discourse, the seaventh part shall thee show
What thou mayst learne, and what by sight I know,
Of matchlesse Egypt; and her unmatch’d bounds,
That twice a yeare, in growth of graine abounds.