...temple is veiled Spenser says that it is not because of shame or blemish, But for, they say, she hath both kinds in one, Both male and female, both under one name: She syre and mother is her selfe alone, Begets and eke conceives, ne needeth other none. (F.£,IV,x,41)....

...not sure for womanish shame. Nor any blemish which the worke mote blame ; But for, they say, she hath both kinds in one. Both male and female, both under one name : She syre and mother is her selfe alone, Begets and eke conceives, ne needeth other none. xlii ' And all...

...best explanation arrived at is that it was because, 'they say,' Venus is a Hermaphrodite: she hath both kinds in one, Both male and female, both under one name: She syrc and mother is her selfe alone, Begets and eke conceives, ne needeth other none. (rv, x, 41) This...

...times. B. iv. cxf xlvii. To Venus. Great God, &c. The poet prepares the reader for this appellation God, applied to Venus, ft. 41. But for they fay, fhe has...has alfo followed the fame notion in Colin Clouts Come Home Again. * Ibid, paflim. For Venus felfe doth folely couples fceme, Both male and female through...