thing it selfe. In hand she boldly tooke
To make another like the former Dame,
8 Another _Florimell_, in shape and looke
So liuely and so like, that many it mistooke.

1 aduise > deuise _1590_

1 By their advice, and her own wicked wit,

wit > intelligence, mental capacity; skill

2 She there devised a wondrous work to frame,

frame > fashion

3 Whose like on earth was never framed yet,
4 That even Nature herself envied the same,

That > [So that]
envied > envied; begrudged

5 And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame

the > [that the]

6 The thing itself. In hand she boldly took
7 To make another like the former dame,
8 Another Florimell, in shape and look
9 So lively, and so like, that many it mistook.

lively > life-like (cf. 101.45:4)
like > resembling the original (said of a portrait, etc.);
convincing
mistook > [wrongly took to be Florimell]

308.6

The substance, whereof she the bodie made,
2 Was purest snow in massie mould congeald,
Which she had gathered in a shadie glade
4 Of the _Riph{oe}an_ hils, to her reueald
By errant Sprights, but from all men conceald:
6 The same she tempred with fine Mercury,
And virgin +wex+, that neuer yet was seald,
8 And mingled them with perfect vermily,
That like a liuely sanguine it seem'd to the eye.

7 wex > wax _1609_

1 The substance, whereof she the body made,
2 Was purest snow in massy mould congealed,

massy > solid, weighty
mould > shape, form
congealed > frozen

3 Which she had gathered in a shady glade
4 Of the Riphaean hills, to her revealed

Riphaean hills > {The mountains in Scythia, i.e. northern Europe and
Asiatic Russia}

5 By errant sprites, but from all men concealed:

errant > wandering

6 The same she tempered with fine mercury,

tempered > blended
mercury > (Formerly numbered among the five elementary "principles"
of which all matter was said to be composed; also called
"spirit". According to Paracelsus, mercury is one of three basic
components of man. Mercury was also a symbol of sprightliness,
volatility, and inconstancy)

7 And virgin wax, that never yet was sealed,

sealed > [used for sealing]

8 And mingled them with perfect vermilion,

vermilion > {Cinnabar, red crystalline mercuric sulphide, used in
the manufacture of red sealing-wax: it is the ore from which most
of the world's mercury is derived}

9 Tha