view > [be viewed; the view of others]

362 And not to yield it the deserved price

price > prize; praise; price (all three words have common ancestor)

363 That to such a workmanship is due,
364 Does either prove the judgement to be naught
365 Or else does show a mind with envy fraught.

fraught > filled

366
367 To labour to commend a piece of work,
368 Which no man goes about to discommend,

discommend > disparage

369 Would raise a jealous doubt that there did lurk
370 Some secret doubt whereto the praise did tend.
371 For when men know the goodness of the wine,
372 'Tis needless for the host to have a sign.

sign > (In a largely illiterate age, inns were identified by a painted
sign depicting, for example, a boar's head or crossed keys, and
from this the inn took its name)

373
374 Thus then to show my judgement to be such
375 As can discern of colours black and white,
376 As als to free my mind from envy's touch,

als > also

377 That never gives to any man his right,
378 I here pronounce this workmanship is such,
379 As that no pen can set it forth too much.
380
381 And thus I hang a garland at the door,
382 Not to show the goodness of the ware:

ware > wares, merchandise

383 But such has been the custom heretofore,
384 And customs very hardly broken are.

very hardly > with great difficulty

385 And when your taste shall tell you this is true,
386 Then look you give your host his utmost due.

look you > (An intensive: "make sure you", etc.)

387 _Ignoto_

Ignoto > "Unknown" (not identifiable)

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393 _To the Right honourable Sir _Christopher Hatton,
394 Lord high Chauncelor of England. &c.
395
396 THose prudent heads, that with theire counsels wise
397 Whylom the Pillours of th'earth did sustaine,
398 And taught ambitious _Rome_ to tyrannise,
399 And in the neck of all the world to rayne,
400 Oft from those graue affaires were wont abstaine,
401 With the sweet Lady Muses for to play:
402 So _Ennius_ the elder Africane,
403 So _Maro_ oft did _C'sars_ cares allay.
404 So you great Lord, that with your counsell sway
405 The burdeine of this kingdom mightily,
406 With like delightes sometimes may eke delay
407 The rugged brow of carefull Policy: