Note 65 — BOOK I.
Reading edition
Not unlike that passage in Virgil.
"Summoque ulularunt vertice nymphæ."
Ladies was the word our old English writers used for Nymphs: As in the following lines of an old song in the Editor's folio MS.
"When scorching Phœbus he did mount, Then Lady Venus went to hunt; To whom Diana did resort, With all the Ladyes of hills, and valleys Of springs, and floodes, &c."