dignity > rank
8 Derived are, and all this world's bliss 9 For which you men do strive: few get, but many miss.
miss > lack; fail to achieve; go wrong, go astray
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And faire Philotime she rightly hight,
2 The fairest wight that wonneth vnder skye,
But that this darksome neather world her light
4 Doth dim with horrour and deformitie,
Worthy of heauen and hye felicitie,
6 From whence the gods haue her for enuy thrust:
But sith thou hast found fauour in mine eye,
8 Thy spouse I will her make, if that thou lust,
That she may thee aduance for workes and merites iust.
1 "And fair Philotime she rightly hight,
Philotime > "Love of Honour" (Greek) hight > is called
2 The fairest wight that wons under sky
wight > person, woman wons > dwells
3 (But that this darksome nether world her light