1 "Fair damsel, seems by your troubled cheer

seems > [it seems] cheer > expression

2 That either me too bold you ween, this wise

ween > think this wise > in this manner

3 You to molest, or other ill to fear

molest > vex ill > evil, harm

4 That in the secret of your heart close lies, 5 From whence it does as cloud from sea arise. 6 If it be I, of pardon I you pray;

of > for pray > entreat

7 But if aught else that I might not devise,

devise > conceive, conjecture, guess [at]