crests > {Symbols of pride or self-confidence; "lofty crests" thus = "superior ways"}

6 To scorn the joy that Jove is glad to seek; 7 We both are bound to follow heaven's behests, 8 And tend our charges with obeisance meek:

obeisance > obedience; submission

9 Spare, gentle sister, with reproach my pain to eke.

gentle > noble eke > augment

306.23

And tell me, if that ye my sonne haue heard,
2 To lurke emongst your Nymphes in secret wize;
Or keepe their cabins: much I am affeard,
4 Least he like one of them him selfe disguize,
And turne his arrowes to their exercize:
6 So may he long himselfe full easie hide:
For he is faire and fresh in face and guize,
8 As any Nymph (let not it be enuyde.)
So saying euery Nymph full narrowly she eyde.

1 "And tell me if that you my son have heard

if that > [whether]

2 To lurk amongst your nymphs in secret wise;