envies > {Feels a grudge against, resents}

210.22

An happie man in his first dayes he was,
2 And happie father of faire progeny:
For all so many weekes as the yeare has,
4 So many children he did multiply;
Of which were twentie sonnes, which did +apply,+
6 Their minds to praise, and cheualrous desire:
Those germans did subdew all Germany,
8 Of whom it hight; but in the end their Sire
With foule repulse from Fraunce was forced to retire.

5 apply, > apply 1609

1 A happy man in his first days he was,

happy > happy; fortunate

2 And happy father of fair progeny: 3 For all so many weeks as the year has,

all so > just as

4 So many children he did multiply; 5 Of which were twenty sons, which did apply 6 Their minds to praise, and chivalrous desire:

praise > virtue; praiseworthy acts