wots > knows
3 Can guile Argus, when she list misdo?
guile > deceive; beguile list > chooses, pleases misdo > [to] do wrong
4 It is not iron bonds, nor hundred eyes, 5 Nor brazen walls, nor many wakeful spies, 6 That can withhold her wilful wandering feet; 7 But fast goodwill with gentle courtesies,
fast > firm, close
8 And timely service to her pleasures meet
meet > appropriate
9 May her perhaps contain, that else would algates fleet."
contain > keep under control that else > who otherwise algates > altogether; after all; hence: surely fleet > waver, fluctuate; slip away, vanish
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