ught her to adore with humble spirit;
9 To adore thing so divine as beauty, were but right.

307.12

This wicked woman had a wicked sonne,
2 The comfort of her age and weary dayes,
A laesie loord, for nothing good to donne,
4 But stretched forth in idlenesse alwayes,
Ne euer cast his mind to couet prayse,
6 Or ply him selfe to any honest trade,
But all the day before the sunny rayes
8 He vs'd to slug, or sleepe in slothfull shade:
Such laesinesse both lewd and poore attonce him made.

1 This wicked woman had a wicked son,
2 The comfort of her age and weary days,
3 A lazy lourd, for nothing good to do,

lourd > sluggard; lout (formed on French _lourd_, heavy; for another
interpretation, see _SC_, gloss to "Julye". The spelling "loord"
may also be intended to connote "lord")
for nothing good to do > [good for nothing]

4 But stretched forth in idleness always,
5 Ne ever cast his mind to covet praise,

Ne ever > And never
praise > merit; virtue (here esp. that associated with praiseworthy
deeds)

6 Or ply himself to any honest trade,

ply > apply

7 But all the day before the sunny rays
8 He used to slug, or sleep in slothful shade:

slug > act lazily, waste his time

9 Such laziness both lewd and poor at once him made.

lewd > ignorant; good for nothing; unchaste
at once > together, simultaneously

307.13

He comming home at vndertime, there found
2 The fairest creature, that he euer saw,
Sitting beside his mother on the ground;
4 The sight whereof did greatly him adaw,
And his base thought with terrour and with aw
6 So inly smot, that as one, which +had+ gazed
On the bright Sunne vnwares, doth soone withdraw
8 His feeble eyne, with too much brightnesse dazed;
So stared he on her, and stood long while amazed.

6 had > hath _1590_

1 He, coming home at undern-time, there found

undern-time > {The third hour of the day, i.e. about 9 a.m.; noon;
the afternoon or evening. Hamilton (1980) suggests that "noon"
makes good contextual sense, since the witch's son finds
Florimell as dazzling as "the bright Sunne"}

2 The fairest creature that he ever saw,
3 Sitting beside his mother on the ground;
4 The sight whereof did greatly him adaw,

whereof > of whom
adaw > confound, daunt, daze (from OFr _adanter_: cf. _SC_, gloss to
"Februarie"); _also, on a second reading of Cantos vii and viii:_
awak