Be > [To be]
Soon > Straightway
7 Upgathering, in her bosom she comprised
comprised > embraced
8 Well as she might, and to the goddess rose,
Well > [As well]
9 While all her nymphs did like a garland her enclose.
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Goodly she gan faire Cytherea greet,
2 And shortly asked her, what cause her brought
Into that wildernesse for her vnmeet,
4 From her sweet bowres, and beds with pleasures fraught:
That suddein change she strange aduenture thought.
6 To whom halfe weeping, she thus answered,
That she her dearest sonne Cupido sought,
8 Who in his frowardnesse from her was fled;
That she repented sore, to haue him angered.
1 Goodly she gan fair Cytherea greet,
Goodly > Politely (though somewhat icily, as the following dialogue
shows)
gan > did
Cytherea > (Another name for Venus, after the island of Cythera
(Cerigo), off which it is said she first rose from the foam of
the sea)