And all the while sweet Musicke did diuide
2 Her looser notes with Lydian harmony;
And all the while sweet birdes thereto applide
4 Their daintie layes and dulcet melody,
Ay caroling of loue and iollity,
6 That wonder was to heare their trim consort.
Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye,
8 They sdeigned such lasciuious disport,
And loath'd the loose demeanure of that wanton sort.
1 And all the while sweet Music did divide
divide > descant
2 Her looser notes with Lydian harmony;
looser > too-loose Lydian > (Describing a mode of Greek music, characteristically soothing and effeminate; see Plato, Republic 3.398)
3 And all the while sweet birds thereto applied
thereto > in addition; to that
4 Their dainty lays and dulcet melody,
dainty lays > delightful songs
5 Ay carolling of love and jollity,