Image of hellish horrour, Ignorance, Borne in the bosome of the black abysse, 260 And fed with Furies milke for sustenaunce Of his weake infancie, begot amisse By yawning Sloth on his owne mother Night, So hee his sonnes both syre and brother hight, He, armd with blindnesse and with boldnes stout, 265 (For blind is bold,) hath our fayre light defaced;

All of them as wel women and children as men, are very great swimmers, and often times swimming they brought vs milke to our barke in vessels vpon their heads.