-10,
302.44:6-45:4)

6 Sad Amarant, made a flower but late,

Amarant > (An imaginary flower that never withers (Greek _amarantos_,
unfading); cf. _PL_ 3.353. The name is applied to the genus
_Amaranthus_, with coloured foliage, which includes Love-lies-
bleeding, _A. caudatus_)
late > lately

7 Sad Amarant, in whose purple gore

purple > red, blood-red

8 Me seems I see Amintas' wretched fate,

Me seems > [It seems to me]
Amintas > (Perhaps an allusion to Sir Philip Sidney; cf. _CC_ 434-9)

9 To whom sweet poets' verse has given endless date.

verse > (E.g. "Astrophel", by Spenser; "The Doleful Lay of
Clarinda", probably by Sidney's sister, Mary, Countess of
Pembroke, and other elegies to Sidney)
date > term, span of life; _hence:_ endless date = immortality

306.46

There wont faire _Venus_ often to enioy
2 Her deare _Adonis_ ioyous company,
And reape sweet pleasure of the wanton boy;
4 There yet, some say, in secret he does ly,
Lapped in flowres and pretious spycery,
6 By her hid from the world, and from the skill
Of _Stygian_ Gods, which doe her loue enuy;
8 But she her selfe, when euer that she will,
Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse takes her fill.

1 There wont fair Venus often to enjoy

wont > was accustomed

2 Her dear Adonis' joyous company,

company > sexual company

3 And reap sweet pleasure of the wanton boy;
4 There yet, some say, in secret he does lie,
5 Lapped in flowers and precious spicery,

Lapped > Enfolded, swathed
spicery > spices

6 By her hid from the world, and from the skill

skill > knowledge; skill (i.e. in dealing death)

7 Of Stygian gods, which do her love envy;

Stygian > {Pertaining to the River Styx, one of the five rivers of
hell, over which Charon ferries the souls of the departed; used
also as a synonym for "infernal", "hellish"}
envy > begrudge, resent

8 But she herself, whenever she will,
9 Possesses him, and of his sweetness takes her fill.

306.47

And sooth it seemes they say: for he may not
2 For euer die, and euer buried bee
In balefull night, where all things are forgot;
4 All be he subiect to mortalitie,
Yet is eterne in mutabilitie,
6 And by succession made perpetuall,
Transformed oft, and chaunged diuerslie:
8 For him the Father of all formes they call;
Therefore needs mote he liue, that liuing giues to all.

1 And sooth it