3 As in approvance of his pleasing words.

As > [As if] approvance > approval

4 The constant pair heard all that he did say, 5 Yet swerved not, but kept their forward way, 6 Through many covert groves, and thickets close,

close > close; secret

7 In which they creeping did at last display

display > open up to view, make manifest (perhaps by parting the branches)

8 That wanton lady, with her lover loose, 9 Whose sleepy head she in her lap did soft dispose.

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Vpon a bed of Roses she was layd,
2 As faint through heat, or dight to pleasant sin,
And was arayd, or rather disarayd,
4 All in a vele of silke and siluer thin,
That hid no whit her alablaster skin,
6 But rather shewd more white, if more might bee:
More subtile web Arachne can not spin,
8 Nor the fine nets, which oft we wouen see
Of scorched deaw, do not in th'aire more lightly flee.

1 Upon a bed of roses she was laid, 2 As faint through heat, or dight to pleasant sin,