[23.] empeach. Hinder. Fr. empêcher.
[24.] accloyes. Chokes or clogs up. Observe how the poet carries out his metaphor of the "well-head," "the purest streames," "his braunching armes," and "the gentle wave."
[25.] unreproved truth. Sincerity.
[26.] great Grandmother. Mother Earth.
[27.] lett be. Leave off; make an end of.
[28.] wage. Pledge. Observe the relationship between this word and both wager and wages.
[29.] Me list. I wish. Compare methinks, meseems. From A.-S. lystan, to choose.
"The wind bloweth where it listeth."—John iii. 8.
wote. Understood. See note [21] above.
[30.] Perdy. An old oath used to give emphasis to an assertion. From Fr. par dieu.