| Boreas and Zephyrus often bear rule on the same day, one reigning with mildness in the morning, the other despotically at evening. |
| Blue-skinned Zephyrus, spirit of the wind, chases Chloris, who transforms into Flora in her flowering dress, while the Three Graces dance, Mercury waves a wand and Cupid gets ready to fire an arrow. |
| The gentle Zephyrus married Flora, goddess of the springtime. |
| There comes Zephyrus, whispering love to Flora incarnate in the Lotus. |
| And by and by she commaunded Zephyrus by the appointment of her husband to bring them downe. |
| But now comes in Zephyrus with the tidings that Hyacinthus is slain by Apollo. |
