1 The first was Fancy, like a lovely boy, 2 Of rare aspect, and beauty without peer;
aspect > appearance; countenance, expression
3 Matchable either to that imp of Troy,
Matchable > Comparable that imp of Troy > (Ganymede: see 311.34:4-9; imp = child, scion)
4 Whom Jove did love, and chose his cup to bear, 5 Or that same dainty lad, who was so dear
dainty > {Handsome, of delicate beauty} lad > (Hylas, a youth who accompanied Hercules on board the Argo. When Hylas died, the distraught Hercules wandered the shore crying his name)
6 To great Alcides that, when he died, 7 He wailed womanlike with many a tear, 8 And every wood, and every valley wide 9 He filled with Hylas' name; the nymphs eke "Hylas!" cried.
nymphs > (Nymphs are the minor female divinities with whom the Greeks peopled all parts of nature: the seas, springs, rivers, grottoes, trees, mountains. Here the reference is to the naiads, who carried Hylas off when he went ashore to fetch fresh water) eke > also
312.8
His garment +neither+ was of silke nor say,
2 But painted plumes, in goodly order dight,
Like as the sunburnt Indians do aray
4 Their tawney bodies, in their proudest plight:
As those same plumes, so seemd he vaine and light,
6 That by his gate might easily appeare;
For still he far'd as dauncing in delight,
8 And in his hand a windy fan did beare,
That in the idle aire he mou'd still here and there.