brood > parentage, race
6 Sometimes Dame Venus herself he seems to see, 7 But Venus never had so sober mood;
so > [such a]
8 Sometimes Diana he her takes to be, 9 But misses bow, and shafts, and buskins to her knee.
shafts > arrows buskins > boots, half-boots (not extending to thigh)
106.17
By vew of her he ginneth to reuiue
2 His ancient loue, and dearest Cyparisse,
And calles to mind his pourtraiture aliue,
4 How faire he was, and yet not faire to this,
And how he slew with glauncing dart amisse
6 A gentle Hynd, the which the louely boy
Did loue as life, aboue all worldly blisse;
8 For griefe whereof the lad n'ould after ioy,
But pynd away in anguish and selfe-wild annoy.
1 By view of her he begins to revive 2 His ancient love, and dearest Cyparissus,
and > (Redundant) Cyparissus > (A youth loved by Silvanus, transformed into a cypress by Apollo: DGDG 13.17, Myth. 5.10; Met. 10.106-42)
3 And calls to mind his portrait alive,