bound > fated, compelled [by the heavens] life's despite > [life's malicious circumstances; or, perhaps: scorning, defiant of, life]
5 Yet can they not warn death from wretched wight.
warn death from > refuse death to [a] wight > mortal, woman
6 Come then, come soon, come sweetest death to me, 7 And take away this long lent loathed light: 8 Sharp be your wounds, but sweet the medicines be, 9 That long captived souls from weary thraldom free.
thraldom > captivity, bondage
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But thou, sweet Babe, whom frowning froward fate
2 Hath made sad witnesse of thy fathers fall,
Sith heauen thee deignes to hold in liuing state,
4 Long maist thou liue, and better thriue withall,
Then to thy lucklesse parents did befall:
6 Liue thou, and to thy mother dead attest,
That cleare she dide from blemish criminall;
8 Thy litle hands embrewd in bleeding brest
Loe I for pledges leaue. So giue me leaue to rest.
1 "But you, sweet babe, whom frowning froward Fate
froward > perverse; adverse; evilly disposed
2 Has made sad witness of your father's fall, 3 Sith heaven you deigns to hold in living state,