4 Of God's high praise, and of their loves' sweet teen,
praise > praiseworthiness, merit
teen > pain
5 As it an earthly paradise had been:
As > [As if]
6 In whose enclosed shadow there was pight
pight > pitched, placed
7 A fair pavilion, scarcely to be seen,
8 Which was all within most richly dight,
dight > arrayed
9 That greatest princes living it might well delight.
That > [So that, such that]
305.41
Thither they brought that wounded Squire, and layd
2 In easie couch his feeble limbes to rest,
He rested him a while, and then the Mayd
4 His ready wound with better salues new drest;
Dayly she dressed him, and did the best
6 His grieuous hurt to +garish+, that she might,
That shortly she his dolour hath redrest,
8 And his foule sore reduced to faire plight:
It she reduced, but himselfe destroyed quight.
6 garish > guarish _1590_
1 Thither they brought that wounded squire, and laid
2 In easy couch his feeble limbs to rest.
easy couch > [a] comfortable bed
3 He rested him a while, and then the maid
him > [himself]
4 His ready wound with better salves new dressed;
ready > (Possibly in the sense of "lying directly before" one: he is
now better placed to be tended)
new > (May be intended to qualify "salues" as well as "drest")
5 Daily she dressed him, and did the best,
6 His grievous hurt to guarish, that she might,
hurt > wound
guarish > cure, heal
7 That shortly she his dolour has redressed,
That > [So that]
dolour > pain; physical suffering
redressed > relieved
8 And his foul sore reduced to fair plight:
fair > tolerable
9 It she reduced, but himself destroyed quite.
305.42
O foolish Physick, and vnfruitfull paine,
2 That heales vp one and makes another wound:
She his hurt thigh to him recur'd againe,
4 But hurt his hart, the which before was sound,
Through an vnwary dart, which did rebound
6 From her faire eyes and gracious countenaunce.
What bootes it him from death to be vnbound,
8 To be captiued in endlesse duraunce
Of sorrow and despaire without aleggeaunce?
1 O foolish physic, and unfruitful pain,
pain > effort
2 That heals up one and makes another wound:
3 She his hurt thigh to him recured again,
recured > restored
4 But hurt his heart, which before was sound,
5 Through an unwary dart, which did rebound
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