...risht in the fat and lively soyle in deede, As in their mothers wombe, began in length of time to grow, To one or other kinde of shape wherein themselves to show. Even so when that seven mouthed Nile the watrie fieldes forsooke, And to his auncient channel eft his bridled streames betooke, So that the Sunne did heate the mud, the which he left behinde, The husbandmen that tilde the ground, ...