2 Loaded with fruit and apples rosy red,
3 As they in pure vermilion had been dyed,

As > [As though]
vermilion > {Scarlet-giving pigment, esp. cinnabar or red
crystalline mercuric sulphide, used as a dye}

4 Whereof great virtues over all were read:

Whereof > Of which
virtues > powers
over all > everywhere
read > discerned; made known

5 For happy life to all who thereon fed,

happy > fortunate; happy

6 And life eke everlasting, did befall:

eke > also, moreover

7 Great God it planted in that blessed stead

stead > place

8 With His almighty hand, and did it call
9 "The Tree of Life", the crime of our first father's fall.

crime > cause of accusation (in _Gen._ 3.22-4, Adam, having
disobediently eaten (3.6-7) from the tree of knowledge, was
banished by God from the Garden of Eden for fear that he would
also taste the fruit of the tree of life. Adam thus laid himself
open to the accusation of his descendants that he had denied them
the opportunity to dwell in the Garden of Eden)

111.47

In all the world like was not to be found,
2 Saue in that soile, where all good things did grow,
And freely sprong out of the fruitfull ground,
4 As incorrupted Nature did them sow,
Till that dread Dragon all did ouerthrow.
6 Another like faire tree eke grew thereby,
Whereof who so did eat, eftsoones did know
8 Both good and ill: O mornefull memory:
That tree through one mans fault hath doen vs all to dy.

1 In all the world like was not to be found,

like > [the like]

2 Save in that soil, where all good things did grow,
3 And freely sprung out of the fruitful ground,
4 As incorrupted Nature did them sow,

incorrupted > pure, sound, uncorrupted

5 Till that dread dragon all did overthrow.
6 Another like fair tree eke grew thereby,

Another > (The tree of the knowledge of good and evil: see _Gen._
2.9-17)
like > similar, similarly
eke > also

7 Whereof whosoever did eat, eftsoons did know

Whereof > Of which
eftsoons > forthwith

8 Both good and ill: O mournful memory:

memory > recollection, remembrance; written memorial record (that
is, these lines of _FQ_)

9 That tree through one man's fault has done us all to die.

done > caused

111.48

From that first tree forth flowd, as from a well,
2 A trickling streame of Balme, most soueraine
And daintie deare, which on the ground still fell,
4 An