Ne ever > And never praise > merit; virtue (here esp. that associated with praiseworthy deeds)
6 Or ply himself to any honest trade,
ply > apply
7 But all the day before the sunny rays 8 He used to slug, or sleep in slothful shade:
slug > act lazily, waste his time
9 Such laziness both lewd and poor at once him made.
lewd > ignorant; good for nothing; unchaste at once > together, simultaneously
307.13
He comming home at vndertime, there found
2 The fairest creature, that he euer saw,
Sitting beside his mother on the ground;
4 The sight whereof did greatly him adaw,
And his base thought with terrour and with aw
6 So inly smot, that as one, which +had+ gazed
On the bright Sunne vnwares, doth soone withdraw
8 His feeble eyne, with too much brightnesse dazed;
So stared he on her, and stood long while amazed.
6 had > hath 1590