{Shrill trumpet with a narrow tube}

3 And all the way the joyous people sings,
4 And with their garments strews the paved street:
5 Whence, mounting up, they find purveyance meet

purveyance > victuals, provisions
meet > fitting, suitable

6 Of all that royal prince's court became,

Of all > [Of all things, of all provisions]
royal > [a royal]
became > suited, was appropriate to

7 And all the floor was underneath their feet
8 Bespread with costly scarlet of great name,

scarlet > {A rich kind of cloth, usually red or orange in colour}
name > reputation, value

9 On which they lowly sit, and fitting purpose frame.

purpose > discourse, conversation; questions

112.14

What needs me tell their feast and goodly guize,
2 In which was nothing riotous nor vaine?
What needes of daintie dishes to deuize,
4 Of comely seruices, or courtly trayne?
My narrow leaues cannot in them containe
6 The large discourse of royall Princes state.
Yet was their manner then but bare and plaine:
8 For th'antique world excesse and pride did hate;
Such proud luxurious pompe is swollen vp but late.

1 What needs me tell their feast and goodly guise,

needs me tell > need do I have to describe
goodly > gracious, courteous; attractive
guise > behaviour, demeanour

2 In which was nothing riotous nor vain?

vain > vain; foolish

3 What needs of dainty dishes to devise,

dainty > choice, delicious
devise > talk, recount

4 Of comely services, or courtly train?

services > {The act of waiting at table; the manner in which this is
done; also: the courses served}

5 My narrow leaves cannot in them contain
6 The large discourse of royal prince's state.

large discourse of > [necessarily] broad disquisition upon

7 Yet was their manner then but bare and plain:
8 For the antique world excess and pride did hate;

antique > ancient

9 Such proud luxurious pomp is swollen up but late.

luxurious > outrageous, extravagant; lascivious
late > recently

112.15

Then when with meates and drinkes of euery kinde
2 Their feruent appetites they quenched had,
That auncient Lord gan fit occasion finde,
4 Of straunge aduentures, and of perils sad,
Which in his trauell him befallen had,
6 For to demaund of his renowmed guest:
Who then with vtt'rance graue, and count'nance sad,
8 From point to point, as is before exprest,