5. Citadell: fortress

2. free: generous

7. souerayne see: royal throne

2. Prime: spring

5. ingenerate: inborn, referring to the doctrine of original sin

5. fleshly slime: the flesh as fallen, in contrast with spirit

8. bounti-hed: goodness

2. accident: event

1. begot, and bred: conceived and born

7. allay: temper

5. playd: danced, moved freely to and fro; had sexual intercourse

6. mollifide: softened (her body)

7. embayd: suffused

8. sence: sensation

9. pregnant flesh: prolepsis

9. fructifide: bore fruit

6. quickned: brought to life

6. by kynd: by natural process or according to their natures

1. he: the Sun

4. burden: literally, ‘that which is borne’

4. reard: ‘brought into existence’

6. traueill: travel; travail, hardship—but not, in this instance, labor pains

7. comfortably: comfortingly

4. flit: swift

7. tract: track

5. whot: hot

2. auize: consider

6. closely: covertly

1. wastefull: desolate

3. embrewed: blood-stained

4. rew: row

9. her person: i.e., Diana’s

3. buskins: boots

4. lanck loynes: narrow waist

4. vnbraste: unbound

7. Embreaded: braided

7. for: to prevent

8. vndight: undone

2. loose: relaxed; undressed

5. disguiz’d: literally, undressed

7. compriz’d: gathered up

8. frowardnes: rebellious disposition

6. engrieued: grief-stricken

1. wanton: wild and overgrown

4. banckets: banquets

9. eeke: increase

3. cabins: bowers

5. their exercize: their regular use

8. envide: envied; resented

1. Phœbe: Diana

5. toy: sexual caress

8. abye: from ‘a-buy’, pay the price

5. From which: i.e., on account of which (‘sugred words and gentle blandishment’)

7. She: Diana

1. To search: to seek

4. perfect Maydenhed: intact virginity

1. to wend: to take their way

6. hew: shape

2. vncouth: unfamiliar

3. sondry: separate

4. rew: row

5. indew: put on, like a garment

8. enraunged: arranged

3. stocke: store or provision

3. conditioned: predisposed by nature

1. relent: soften

7. Franckly: without constraint

4. Pryme: springtime

4. rancke: luxuriant

5. entrayld athwart: interwoven across

6. Eglantine: sweet-briar

6. Caprifole: honeysuckle

9. Aeolus: Greek god, keeper of the winds

7. enuy: begrudge

7. auoyd: defeat; her love ‘voids’ his malice

3. vnmeet vpbrayes: undeserved reproaches