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time > [herself to the necessity of the moment] 3 So from the ground she fearless does arise, 4 And walks forth without suspect of crime: suspect > suspicion 5 They, all as glad as birds of joyous prime, They, all > (Or: They all,) prime > springtime; sunrise, morning 6 Thence lead her forth, about her dancing round, 7 Shouting, and singing all a shepherd's rhyme, 8 And with green branches strewing all the ground, 9 Do worship her as queen, with olive garland crowned. 106.14 And all the way their merry pipes they sound, 2 That all the woods with +doubled+ Eccho ring, And with their horned feet do weare the ground, 4 Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant Spring. So towards old _Syluanus_ they her bring; 6 Who with the noyse awaked, commeth out, To weet the cause, his weake steps gouerning, 8 And aged limbs on Cypresse stadle stout, And with an yuie twyne his +wast+ is girt about. 2 doubled > double _1609_ 9 wast > waste _1590, 1609_ 1 And all the way their merry pipes they sound, merry > merry; delightful 2 That all the woods with doubled echo ring, That > [So that] echo > (Echo is also the name of a mountain-nymph; see _Romeo and Juliet_ II ii 161) 3 And with their horned feet do wear the ground, 4 Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant spring. 5 So towards old Silvanus they her bring; 6 Who, with the noise awoken, comes out 7 To weet the cause, his weak steps governing weet > discover governing > supporting, guiding (refers both to his "weak steps" and his "aged limbs") 8 And aged limbs on cypress staddle stout, staddle > tree-trunk, prop, support; _hence:_ staff (it is a cypress staddle because of his love for Cyparissus (cf. 106.17; _DGDG_ 13.17; _Myth._ 5.10)) 9 And with an ivy twine his waist is girt about. ivy > (Sacred to Bacchus) 106.15 Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, 2 +Or+ _Bacchus_ merry fruit they did inuent, Or _Cybeles_ franticke rites haue made them mad; 4 They drawing nigh, vnto their God present That flowre of faith and beautie excellent. 6 The God himselfe vewing that mirrhour rare, Stood long amazd, and burnt in his intent; 8 His owne faire _Dryope_ now he thinkes not faire, And _Pholoe_ fowle, when her to this he doth compaire. 2 Or > Of _1596, 1609;_ If _conj. Hughes_ 1 Far off, he wonders what them makes so glad, 2 Or
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