5 Lo, lo, how brave she decks her bounteous bower
brave > splendidly bower > chamber
6 With silken curtains and gold coverlets, 7 Therein to shroud her sumptuous belamour,
shroud > shelter; conceal belamour > loved one (French bel amour; spelled "bellamoure", this word is also used for an unidentified flower in Amoretti 64:7)
8 Yet neither spins nor cards, neither cares nor frets,
cards > {Prepares wool for spinning}
9 But to her mother, Nature, all her care she lets.
lets > leaves
206.17
Why then dost thou, {o^} man, that of them all
2 Art Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine,
Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall,
4 And wast thy ioyous houres in needlesse paine,
Seeking for daunger and aduentures vaine?
6 What bootes it all to haue, and nothing vse?
Who shall him rew, that swimming in the maine,
8 Will die for thirst, and water doth refuse?
Refuse such fruitlesse toile, and present pleasures chuse.