h with pleasing style

jolly > gallant, fine
style > style; literary composition, _hence:_ poem, song (cf. _SC_,
"Januarie", 10)

296 you feast the humour of the courtly train:

humour > state of mind; _hence:_ tastes
train > assembly, entourage

297 Let not conceit your settled sense beguile,
298 nor daunted be through envy or disdain.
299 Subject your doom to her empiring spirit,

doom > fate
empiring > imperial

300 From whence your Muse and all the world takes light.
301 _Hobinoll_

Hobinoll > (Gabriel Harvey (1545?-1630); see glosses to _SC_,
"Januarie", 55, and "September", 176. A fellow poet, Harvey
remained a friend of Spenser from their Cambridge days. Elected a
Fellow of Pembroke Hall in 1570, a year after Spenser was admitted
there as a sizar (undergraduate receiving an allowance from the
college))

302
303
304 FAyre _Thamis_ streame, that from _Ludds_ stately towne,
305 Runst paying tribute to the Ocean seas,
306 Let all thy Nymphes and Syrens of renowne
307 Be silent, whyle this Bryttane _Orpheus_ playes:
308 Nere thy sweet bankes, there liues that sacred crowne,
309 Whose hand strowes Palme and neuer-dying bayes,
310 Let all at once, with thy soft murmuring sowne
311 Present her with this worthy Poets prayes.
312 For he hath taught hye drifts in shepeherdes weedes,
313 And deepe conceites now singes in _Faeries_ deedes.
314 R. S.
315
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304 Fair Thames' stream, that from Lud's stately town

Lud > (A mythical king of England, reputed founder of London (see
210.46:1 and cf. _Cymbeline_ IV ii 100))

305 Run paying tribute to the ocean seas,

ocean seas > {The main or great seas of the world}

306 Let all your nymphs and Sirens of renown

nymphs > (Minor female divinities with whom the Greeks peopled all
parts of nature: the seas, springs, rivers, grottoes, trees,
mountains)
Sirens > (Sea-nymphs whose sweet singing had the power to lure sailors
to their destruction)

307 Be silent, while this Briton Orpheus plays:

Orpheus > (A mythical minstrel whose wonderful music could move rocks
and trees and suspend the torments of the damned in hell)

308 Near your sweet banks there lives that sacred crown

crown > monarch

309 Whose