9 So was their fortune good, though wicked were their mind.

mind > desires, inclination

302.44

But wicked fortune mine, though mind be good,
2 Can haue no end, nor hope of my desire,
But feed on shadowes, whiles I die for food,
4 And like a shadow wexe, whiles with entire
Affection, I doe languish and expire.
6 I fonder, then _Cephisus_ foolish child,
Who hauing vewed in a fountaine shere
8 His face, was with the loue thereof beguild;
I fonder loue a shade, the bodie farre exild.

1 "But wicked fortune mine, though mind be good,
2 Can have no end, nor hope of my desire,
3 But feed on shadows, while I die for food,
4 And like a shadow wax, while with entire

wax > grow, become
entire > unreserved; inward (cf. e.g. 408.23:9); morally whole,
blameless

5 Affection I do languish and expire.
6 I fonder than Cephissus' foolish child,

fonder > [am more foolish]
Cephissus > (Father of Narcissus, a beautiful youth who became so
enamoured of his own reflection in a pool that he gradually pined
away and was metamorphosed into a flower; see _Met._ 3.339-510,
_DGDG_ 4.9-10)

7 Who, having viewed in a fountain sheer

sheer > pure, clear, translucent (of water)

8 His face, was with the love thereof beguiled;
9 I, fonder, love a shade, the body far exiled."

fonder > more foolish; _or, without my parenthesis:_ more foolishly
shade > spectre, ghost

302.45

Nought like (quoth she) for that same wretched boy
2 Was of himselfe the idle Paramoure;
Both loue and louer, without hope of ioy,
4 For which he faded to a watry flowre.
But better fortune thine, and better howre,
6 Which lou'st the shadow of a warlike knight;
No shadow, but a bodie hath in powre:
8 That bodie, wheresoeuer that it light,
May learned be by cyphers, or by Magicke might.

1 "Naught like," quoth she, "for that same wretched boy

Naught like > [Not at all is your case like Narcissus's]

2 Was of himself the idle paramour;

idle > weak-headed, futile

3 Both love and lover, without hope of joy,
4 For which he faded to a watery flower.

watery > vapid, wishy-washy; _also, said of land or soil:_ moist and
plashy, _and so:_ growing by water (i.e. by the fountain; cf.
306.45:4)

5 But better fortune yours, and better hour,

hour > time

6 Which loves the shadow of a warlike knight;

shadow > shade, spectre

7 No shadow