table > {Surface on which picture is painted; cf. 109.49:6} dispread > spread out, extend
3 For Love his lofty triumphs to engrave, 4 And write the battles of his great godhead: 5 All good and honour might therein be read:
read > seen, discerned
6 For there their dwelling was. And when she spoke, 7 Sweet words, like dropping honey, she did shed, 8 And 'twixt the pearls and rubies softly broke
pearls and rubies > [teeth and lips]
9 A silver sound, that heavenly music seemed to make.
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Vpon her eyelids many Graces sate,
2 Vnder the shadow of her euen browes,
Working belgards, and amorous retrate,
4 And euery one her with a grace endowes:
And euery one with meekenesse to her bowes.
6 So glorious mirrhour of celestiall grace,
And soueraine moniment of mortall vowes,
8 How shall fraile pen descriue her heauenly face,
For feare through want of skill her beautie to disgrace?
1 Upon her eyelids many Graces sat,
Graces > (Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, the handmaids of Venus; hence, here: charms, refinements. Cf. SC, gloss to "June")