2 Your > Thy 1590 2 you > thou 1590
1 But if in living colours and right hue
hue > appearance
2 Yourself you covet to see pictured, 3 What can it do more lively, or more true,
lively > {Livelily; in a lifelike manner} true > accurately
4 Than that sweet verse, with nectar sprinkled, 5 In which a gracious servant pictured
a gracious servant > (Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552-1618, poet, soldier, explorer, scholar, statesman, and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth. He had a huge estate near Spenser's in southern Ireland, and under his auspices the FQ was published and dedicated to the sovereign)
6 His Cynthia, his heaven's fairest light?
Cynthia > (Raleigh's poem in praise of Queen Elizabeth is called The Ocean's Love to Cynthia; of this, only one book has survived. See I:118-24)
7 That with his melting sweetness ravished,