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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