s without suspition tell abrode.

5 heauy > heauenly _1590_

1 There is continual spring, and harvest there

harvest > autumn; harvest-time

2 Continual, both meeting at one time:
3 For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear,

the boughs do > [do the boughs]

4 And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime,

wanton > rank, luxuriant, _hence:_ abundant; undisciplined, unchaste
prime > springtime

5 And eke at once the heavy trees they climb,

eke > also
at once > simultaneously, together
heavy > (See Textual Appendix)
they > (An ambiguous pronoun. Refers perhaps to all the creatures
in the garden, or just to the birds. Most likely it is redundant
(i.e. it is the trees which climb), the word being included only
for the sake of the metre)

6 Which seem to labour under their fruits' load:
7 The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime

The whiles > Meanwhile

8 Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet abode,
9 And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

tell > [sing]

306.43

Right in the middest of that Paradise,
2 There stood a stately Mount, on whose round top
A gloomy groue of mirtle trees did rise,
4 Whose shadie boughes sharpe steele did neuer lop,
Nor wicked beasts their tender buds did crop,
6 But like a girlond compassed the hight,
And from their fruitfull sides sweet gum did drop,
8 That all the ground with precious deaw bedight,
Threw forth most dainty odours, and most sweet delight.

1 Right in the middest of that paradise

middest > middle

2 There stood a stately mount, on whose round top
3 A gloomy grove of myrtle trees did rise,

myrtle > (Held sacred to Venus, and used as an emblem of love)

4 Whose shady boughs sharp steel did never lop,
5 Nor wicked beasts their tender buds did crop,
6 But like a garland compassed the height,

compassed > encircled, enclosed
height > summit

7 And from their fruitful sides sweet gum did drop,
8 That all the ground with precious dew bedight,

That > (Marks the start of an ambiguous construction, the alter-
native readings being (1) "[So] that all the ground, with
precious dew bedight, Threw forth ..." and (2) "That all the
ground with precious dew bedight, [And] threw ...")
bedight > adorned, arrayed

9 Threw forth most dainty odours, and most sweet delight.

dainty > delightful

306.44

And in the thickest couert of that shade,
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