cience her cleard,
She fled into the wildernesse a space,
4 Till that vnweeldy burden she had reard,
And shund dishonor, which as death she feard:
6 Where wearie of long trauell, downe to rest
Her selfe she set, and comfortably cheard;
8 There a sad cloud of sleepe her ouerkest,
And seized euery sense with sorrow sore opprest.

1 Whereof conceiving shame and foul disgrace

Whereof > Of which

2 (Albe her guiltless conscience her cleared),

Albe > Albeit

3 She fled into the wilderness a space,

a space > for a time

4 Till that unwieldy burden she had reared,

reared > brought into existence

5 And shunned dishonour, which as death she feared:
6 Where, weary of long travel, down to rest

travel > travel; travail, labour

7 Herself she set, and comfortably cheered;

comfortably > [self consolingly]

8 There a sad cloud of sleep her overcast,

sad > heavy; sad
overcast > overshadowed

9 And seized every sense with sorrow sore oppressed.

oppressed > overwhelmed; oppressed

306.11

It fortuned, faire _Venus_ hauing lost
2 Her little sonne, the winged god of loue,
Who for some light displeasure, which him crost,
4 Was from her fled, as flit as ayerie Doue,
And left her blisfull bowre of ioy aboue,
6 (So from her often he had fled away,
When she for ought him sharpely did reproue,
8 And wandred in the world in strange aray,
Disguiz'd in thousand shapes, that none might him bewray.)

1 It fortuned, fair Venus having lost
2 Her little son, the winged god of love,

Her little son > [Cupid]

3 Who for some light displeasure, which him crossed,
4 Was from her fled, as flit as airy dove,

flit > swift, fleet

5 And left her blissful bower of joy above

left > [had left]
bower > abode

6 (So from her often he had fled away,
7 When she for aught him sharply did reprove,
8 And wandered in the world in strange array,

array > attire

9 Disguised in thousand shapes, that none might him bewray),

that > [so that]
bewray > betray; reveal

306.12

Him for to seeke, she left her heauenly hous,
2 The house of goodly formes and faire aspects,
Whence all the world deriues the glorious
4 Features of +beautie+, and all shapes select,
With which high God his workmanship hath deckt;
6 And searched euery way, through which his wings
Had borne him, or his tract s