adventure > [to] venture, [to] hazard
9 For fear, through want of words, her excellence to mar.
300.3
How then shall I, Apprentice of the skill,
2 That whylome in diuinest wits did raine,
Presume so high to stretch mine humble quill?
4 Yet now my lucklesse lot doth me constraine
Hereto perforce. But {o^} dred Soueraine
6 Thus farre forth pardon, sith that choicest wit
Cannot your glorious pourtraict figure plaine
8 That I in colourd showes may shadow it,
And antique praises vnto present persons fit.
1 How then shall I, apprentice of the skill 2 That whilom in divinest wits did reign,
whilom > of old wits > minds
3 Presume so high to stretch my humble quill?
quill > pen
4 Yet now my luckless lot does me constrain 5 Hereto perforce. But O dread Sovereign
Hereto > To this, to this matter dread > dreaded; revered