purple > red, blood-red
8 Me seems I see Amintas' wretched fate,
Me seems > [It seems to me]
Amintas > (Perhaps an allusion to Sir Philip Sidney; cf. CC 434-9)
9 To whom sweet poets' verse has given endless date.
verse > (E.g. "Astrophel", by Spenser; "The Doleful Lay of Clarinda", probably by Sidney's sister, Mary, Countess of Pembroke, and other elegies to Sidney) date > term, span of life; hence: endless date = immortality
306.46
There wont faire Venus often to enioy
2 Her deare Adonis ioyous company,
And reape sweet pleasure of the wanton boy;
4 There yet, some say, in secret he does ly,
Lapped in flowres and pretious spycery,
6 By her hid from the world, and from the skill
Of Stygian Gods, which doe her loue enuy;
8 But she her selfe, when euer that she will,
Possesseth him, and of his sweetnesse takes her fill.
1 There wont fair Venus often to enjoy
wont > was accustomed
2 Her dear Adonis' joyous company,