love?

weened > thought it possible, supposed, imagined

3 Yet love is sullen, and Saturn-like seen,
4 As he did for Erigone it prove),

Erigone > (See Textual Appendix. Erigone was the daughter of
Icarius, in grief for whose death she hanged herself. She was
loved by Bacchus, and was placed by him (or by Jupiter) among the
stars, becoming the constellation of Virgo; her father became
Bo{o"}tes)

5 That to a centaur did himself transmew.

centaur > (Fabulous creature with the head, arms and trunk of a man
and the lower parts of a horse)
transmew > transmute

6 So proved it eke that gracious god of wine

eke > also
god of wine > (Bacchus)

7 When, to compass Philyra's hard love,

Philyra > (See Textual Appendix. Philyra was the daughter of
Oceanus)

8 He turned himself into a fruitful vine,
9 And into her fair bosom made his grapes decline.

311.44

Long were to tell the amorous assayes,
2 And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke
The mighty _Mars_, to learne his wanton playes:
4 How oft for _Venus_, and how often eek
For many other Nymphes he sore did shreek,
6 With womanish teares, and with vnwarlike smarts,
Priuily moystening his horrid cheek.
8 There was he painted full of burning darts,
And many wide woundes launched through his +inner+ +parts.+

9 inner > inward _1609_
9 parts. > parts, _1596_

1 Long were to tell the amorous assays

Long were > [It would take a long time]
assays > assaults; essays: attempts

2 And gentle pangs with which he made meek

he > [Cupid]

3 The mighty Mars, to learn his wanton plays:

learn > learn; teach
plays > sports, amorous sports

4 How oft for Venus, and how often eke

eke > also

5 For many other nymphs he sore did shriek,

nymph > (Nymphs are the minor female divinities with whom the Greeks
peopled all parts of nature: the seas, springs, rivers, grottoes,
trees, mountains)
he > [Mars]

6 With womanish tears, and with unwarlike smarts,

smarts > pains

7 Privily moistening his horrid cheek.

Privily > Secretly
horrid > bristly, shaggy

8 There was he painted full of burning darts,

There > [In the tapestry]

9 And many wide wounds lanced through his inner parts.

311.45

Ne did he spare (so cruell was the Elfe)
2 His owne deare mother, (ah why should he +so?)+
Ne did he spare sometime to pricke himselfe,
4 That he might tast the s