ound,
7 You to have helped I hold myself yet blessed."
8 "Ah, courteous knight," quoth she, "what secret wound
9 Could ever find to grieve the gentlest heart on ground?"

find > contrive, devise
gentlest > noblest; most gentle
on ground > on Earth, in the world

109.8

Dear Dame (quoth he) you sleeping sparkes awake,
2 Which troubled once, into huge flames will grow,
Ne euer will their feruent fury slake,
4 Till liuing moysture into smoke do flow,
And wasted life do lye in ashes low.
6 Yet sithens silence lesseneth not my fire,
But told it flames, and hidden it does glow,
8 I will reuele, what ye so much desire:
Ah Loue, lay downe thy bow, the whiles I may respire.

1 "Dear dame," quoth he, "you sleeping sparks awake,
2 Which, troubled once, into huge flames will grow;
3 Nor ever will their fervent fury slake,

slake > abate

4 Till living moisture into smoke do flow,

living moisture > [the humours comprising the body]

5 And wasted life do lie in ashes low.

wasted > consumed, squandered
lie > (With a pun on "lye")

6 Yet sithens silence lessens not my fire,

sithens > since

7 But, told, it flames; and, hidden, it does glow,
8 I will reveal what you so much desire:
9 Ah, Love, lay down your bow, while I may respire!

Love > [Cupid]
respire > breathe again, recover breath

109.9

It was in freshest flowre of youthly yeares,
2 When courage first does creepe in manly chest,
Then first +the+ coale of kindly heat appeares
4 To kindle loue in euery liuing brest;
But me had warnd old _Timons_ wise behest,
6 Those creeping flames by reason to subdew,
Before their rage grew to so great vnrest,
8 As miserable louers vse to rew,
Which still wex old in woe, whiles woe still wexeth new.

3 the > that _1590: FE, a lection defended, however, by Church_

1 "It was in freshest flower of youthly years,
2 When courage first does creep in manly chest:

courage > lustiness, vigour
creep > come on slowly, grow by degrees

3 Then first the coal of kindly heat appears

kindly > natural (cf. 108.11:6)

4 To kindle love in every living breast;
5 But me had warned old Timon's wise behest,

warned > forewarned, put on guard

6 Those creeping flames by reason to subdue
7 Before their rage grew to so great unrest,

so > such

8 As miserable lovers use to rue,

use to > observe as a c