rs > rooms, _hence:_ shelter [the woods were my shelter, the
nymphs my midwives]; _or, just possibly, in view of the spelling
and number of_ bowres: muscles [the woods, the nymphs, and my own
exertions were my only help in childbirth]

8 Hard help at need. So dear you babe I bought,

need > [a time of need]
dear > dearly, grievously

9 Yet naught too dear I deemed, while so my dear I sought.

naught > not at all
so my dear > [thus Sir Mordant]

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Him so I sought, and so at last I found,
2 Where him that witch had thralled to her will,
In chaines of lust and lewd desires ybound,
4 And so transformed from his former skill,
That me he knew not, neither his owne ill;
6 Till through wise handling and faire gouernance,
I him recured to a better will,
8 Purged from drugs of foule intemperance:
Then meanes I gan deuise for his deliuerance.

1 "Him so I sought, and so at last I found,

so > thus

2 Where him that witch had thralled to her will,

thralled > enslaved, made a captive

3 In chains of lust and lewd desires bound,
4 And so transformed from his former skill

skill > reason, power of discrimination; knowledge

5 That me he knew not, neither his own ill;

neither > [neither did he know]
ill > distress; wickedness

6 Till, through wise handling and fair governance,

handling > treatment
governance > governing, management; self-control

7 I him recured to a better will,

recured > restored

8 Purged from drugs of foul intemperance:
9 Then means I gan devise for his deliverance.

gan > did; began to

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Which when the vile Enchaunteresse perceiu'd,
2 How that my Lord from her I would repriue,
With cup thus charmd, him parting she deceiu'd;
4 _Sad verse, giue death to him that death does giue,
And losse of loue, to her that loues to liue,
6 So soone as Bacchus with the Nymphe does +lincke,+_
So parted we and on our iourney driue,
8 Till comming to this well, he stoupt to drincke:
The charme fulfild, dead suddenly he downe did sincke.

6 _lincke,_ > _lincke: 1609_

1 "Which when the vile enchantress perceived,
2 How my lord from her I would reprieve,

reprieve > reprieve; rescue

3 With cup thus charmed, him parting she deceived:

charmed > enchanted
parting > [in parting, while parting]

4 `Sad verse, give death to him that death does give,

Sad > Heavy; ill-omen