293 Yet still with people, peace, and plenty flows.
still > ever
294 295 But (jolly shepherd) though with pleasing style
jolly > gallant, fine
style > style; literary composition, hence: poem, song (cf. SC,
"Januarie", 10)
296 you feast the humour of the courtly train:
humour > state of mind; hence: tastes train > assembly, entourage
297 Let not conceit your settled sense beguile, 298 nor daunted be through envy or disdain. 299 Subject your doom to her empiring spirit,
doom > fate empiring > imperial
300 From whence your Muse and all the world takes light. 301 Hobinoll
Hobinoll > (Gabriel Harvey (1545?-1630); see glosses to SC, "Januarie", 55, and "September", 176. A fellow poet, Harvey remained a friend of Spenser from their Cambridge days. Elected a Fellow of Pembroke Hall in 1570, a year after Spenser was admitted there as a sizar (undergraduate receiving an allowance from the college))