English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry
He feedes vpon the cooling shade, and bayes
2 His sweatie forehead in the breathing wind,
Which through the trembling leaues full gently playes
4 Wherein the cherefull birds of sundry kind
Do chaunt sweet musick, to delight his mind:
6 The Witch approching gan him fairely greet,
And with reproch of carelesnesse vnkind
8 Vpbrayd, for leauing her in place vnmeet,
With fowle words tempring faire, soure gall with hony sweet.
1 He feeds upon the cooling shade, and bathes
2 His sweaty forehead in the breathing wind,
3 Which through the trembling leaves full gently plays,
full > entirely, quite
4 Wherein the cheerful birds of sundry kind
5 Do chant sweet music, to delight his mind.
6 The witch, approaching, gan him fairly greet,
gan > did
fairly > courteously
7 And, with reproach of carelessness unkind,
8 Upbraid, for leaving her in place unmeet;
Upbraid > [Upbraid him]
unmeet > unsuitable, improper, unfitting
9 With foul words tempering fair, sour gall with honey sweet.
107.4
Vnkindnesse past, they gan of solace treat,
2 And bathe in pleasaunce of the ioyous shade,
Which shielded them against the boyling heat,
4 And with greene boughes decking a gloomy glade,
About the fountaine like a girlond made;
6 Whose bubbling waue did euer freshly well,
Ne euer would through feruent sommer fade:
8 The sacred Nymph, which therein wont to dwell,
Was out of _Dianes_ fauour, as it then befell.
1 Unkindness past, they gan of solace treat,
gan > did; began to
solace > pleasure, enjoyment
treat > to discourse, to deal
2 And bathe in pleasance of the joyous shade,
pleasance > [the pleasure-giving quality]
3 Which shielded them against the boiling heat,
4 And, with green boughs decking a gloomy glade,
5 About the fountain like a garland made;
6 Whose bubbling wave did ever freshly well,
7 Nor ever would through fervent summer fade:
fade > weaken, decline
8 The sacred nymph, who therein wont to dwell,
nymph > (Nymphs are the minor female divinities with whom the Greeks
peopled all parts of nature: the seas, springs, rivers, grottoes,
trees, mountains. The nymph referred to here is one of the naiads
(see 106.18:3), nymphs of fresh water. Many of these presided
over springs which were believed to inspire those who drank the
water)
wont > was accustomed
9 Was out of Diana's favour, as it then befell.
107.5
The cause was this: one day when _Ph{oe}be_ fayre
2 With all her band was following the chace,
This Nymph, quite tyr'd with heat of scorching ayre
4 Sat downe to rest in middest of the race:
The goddesse wroth gan fowly +her+ disgrace,
6 And bad the waters, which from her did flow,
Be such as she her selfe was then in place.
8 Thenceforth her waters waxed dull and slow,
And all that drunke thereof, +did+ faint and feeble grow.
5 her > he _1596_
9 did > do _1590_
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