wise > fashion, manner
9 Not fit for speedy pace, or manly exercise.
pace > movement, motion
212.47
They in that place him Genius did call:
2 Not that celestiall powre, to whom the care
Of life, and generation of all
4 That liues, pertaines in charge particulare,
Who wondrous things concerning our welfare,
6 And straunge phantomes doth let vs oft +forsee+,
And oft of secret ill bids vs beware:
8 That is our Selfe, whom though we do not see,
Yet each doth in him selfe it well perceiue to bee.
6 forsee > foresee 1609
1 They in that place him Genius did call
Genius > "Guardian Spirit" (Latin; cf. 306.31:8-9)
2 (Not that celestial power, to whom the care
that celestial power > (The Greeks thought that each man had a demon assigned to him at the moment of his birth; the demon accompanied him throughout his life and after death conducted his soul to Hades. The Romans held a similar belief: the genius (the name shares the same root as "geno", "gigno", to beget or bring forth) was worshipped as the god of generation. Each place also had its own genius or guardian spirit. Spenser is saying that the porter here is not that celestial power, and I have shown the parenthesis recommended by Warton (1762))