enesse,
6 And learned had to loue with secret lookes,
And well could daunce, and sing with ruefulnesse,
8 And fortunes tell, and read in louing bookes,
And thousand other wayes, to bait his fleshly hookes.

1 In a green gown he clothed was full fair,

full > very, exceedingly

2 Which underneath did hide his filthiness,

filthiness > obscenity, moral defilement

3 And in his hand a burning heart he bore,
4 Full of vain follies and new-fangleness:
5 For he was false, and fraught with fickleness,

fraught > filled

6 And learned had to love with secret looks,
7 And well could dance, and sing with ruefulness,
8 And fortunes tell, and read in loving books,

loving books > erotica

9 And thousand other ways to bait his fleshly hooks.

fleshly > lustful

104.26

Inconstant man, that loued all he saw,
2 And lusted after all, that he did loue,
Ne would his looser life be tide to law,
4 But ioyd weake wemens hearts to +tempt+ and proue
If from their loyall loues he might them moue;
6 Which lewdnesse fild him with reprochfull paine
Of that fowle euill, which all men reproue,
8 That rots the marrow, and consumes the braine:
Such one was _Lecherie_, the third of all this traine.

4 tempt > tempt, _1590_

1 Inconstant man, that loved all he saw,
2 And lusted after all that he did love,
3 Nor would his looser life be tied to law,

looser > too-loose

4 But joyed weak women's hearts to tempt, and prove

prove > test, try

5 If from their loyal loves he might them move;
6 Which lewdness filled him with reproachful pain

reproachful > {Worthy of reproach or censure}

7 Of that foul evil, which all men reprove,

that foul evil > [syphilis; or perhaps leprosy, noted by Hamilton
(1980)]

8 That rots the marrow, and consumes the brain:
9 Such one was Lechery, the third of all this train.

104.27

And greedy _Auarice_ by him did ride,
2 Vpon a Camell loaden all with gold;
Two iron +coffers+ hong on either side,
4 With precious mettall full, as they might hold,
And in his lap an heape of coine he told;
6 For of his wicked pelfe his God he made,
And vnto hell him selfe for money sold;
8 Accursed vsurie was all his trade,
And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide.

3 coffers > coffets 1590

1 And greedy Avarice by him did ride,
2 Upon a camel laden all with gol