mind > desires, inclination
302.44
But wicked fortune mine, though mind be good,
2 Can haue no end, nor hope of my desire,
But feed on shadowes, whiles I die for food,
4 And like a shadow wexe, whiles with entire
Affection, I doe languish and expire.
6 I fonder, then Cephisus foolish child,
Who hauing vewed in a fountaine shere
8 His face, was with the loue thereof beguild;
I fonder loue a shade, the bodie farre exild.
1 "But wicked fortune mine, though mind be good, 2 Can have no end, nor hope of my desire, 3 But feed on shadows, while I die for food, 4 And like a shadow wax, while with entire
wax > grow, become entire > unreserved; inward (cf. e.g. 408.23:9); morally whole, blameless
5 Affection I do languish and expire. 6 I fonder than Cephissus' foolish child,
fonder > [am more foolish] Cephissus > (Father of Narcissus, a beautiful youth who became so enamoured of his own reflection in a pool that he gradually pined away and was metamorphosed into a flower; see Met. 3.339-510, DGDG 4.9-10)
7 Who, having viewed in a fountain sheer
sheer > pure, clear, translucent (of water)
8 His face, was with the love thereof beguiled; 9 I, fonder, love a shade, the body far exiled."