Sonnet 9

Diana (on a time) walking the wood,
To sport herselfe, of her faire traine forlorne,
Chaunc't for to pricke her foote against a thorne,
And from thence issu'd out a streame of blood.
No sooner shee was vanisht out of sight,
But loues faire Queen came there away by chace,
And hauing of this hap a glym'ring glance,
She put the blood into a christall bright;
When being now comme unto mount Rhodope,
With her faire hands she formes a shape of Snow,
And blends it with this blood; from whence doth grow
A louely creature, brighter than the Day.
And being christned in faire Paphos shrine,
She call'd him Ganymede: as all diuine.