6 But here awhile you may in safety rest, 7 Till season serve new passage to essay;

essay > attempt

8 Better safe port, than be in seas distressed."

distressed > [in distress, when distressed]

9 Therewith she laughed, and did her earnest end in jest.

Therewith > With that; thereupon earnest > seriousness

206.24

But he halfe discontent, mote nathelesse
2 Himselfe appease, and issewd forth on shore:
The ioyes whereof, and happie fruitfulnesse,
4 Such as he +saw,+ she gan him lay before,
And all though pleasant, yet she made much more:
6 The fields did laugh, the flowres did freshly spring,
The trees did bud, and earely blossomes bore,
8 And all the quire of birds did sweetly sing,
And told that gardins pleasures in their caroling.

4 saw, > saw 1596, 1609

1 But he, half discontent, might natheless