certes > assuredly

4 Him his nobility so foully deface;

deface > cast in the shade; disgrace; destroy

5 A sweet regard, and amiable grace,

regard > expression, aspect

6 Mixed with manly sternness did appear, 7 Yet sleeping, in his well proportioned face,

Yet sleeping > [Even as he slept]

8 And on his tender lips the downy hair 9 Did now but freshly spring, and silken blossoms bear.

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His warlike armes, the idle instruments
2 Of sleeping praise, were hong vpon a tree,
And his braue shield, full of old moniments,
4 Was fowly ra'st, that none the signes might see;
Ne for them, ne for honour cared hee,
6 Ne ought, that did to his aduauncement tend,
But in lewd loues, and wastfull luxuree,
8 His dayes, his goods, his bodie he did spend:
O horrible enchantment, that him so did blend.