weened > supposed
6 Ah God, what horror and tormenting grief 7 My heart, my hands, my eyes, and all assayed?
assayed > assailed; made trial of
8 Me liefer were ten thousand deaths' proof,
Me liefer > Preferable to me, dearer to me proof > trial, experience
9 Than wound of jealous worm, and shame of such reproof.
worm > snake, serpent [of jealousy]; passion, gnawing torment reproof > shame, disgrace
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I home returning, fraught with fowle despight,
2 And chawing vengeance all the way I went,
Soone as my loathed loue appeard in sight,
4 With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;
That after soone I dearely did lament:
6 For when the cause of that outrageous deede
Demaunded, I made plaine and euident,
8 Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede,
Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.
1 "I, home returning (fraught with foul despite,