4 greene > grenee 1596
1 Thus being entered, they behold around 2 A large and spacious plain, on every side 3 Strewn with pleasances, whose fair grassy ground
Strewn > Spread, covered pleasances > pleasure-grounds, ornamental gardens
4 Mantled with green, and goodly beautified
Mantled > [Was mantled]
5 With all the ornaments of Flora's pride, 6 Wherewith her mother, Art, as half in scorn
Wherewith > With which as > [as though]
7 Of niggard Nature, like a pompous bride
niggard > mean, parsimonious pompous > splendid (derives from Latin pompa, a solemn procession, display)
8 Did deck her, and too lavishly adorn, 9 When forth from virgin bower she comes in the early morn.