"The rathe primrose that forsaken dies."
And Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," Act iv, sc. iii;
"Pale primroses that die unmarried."
[14.] store. Abundance.
vermeil. Vermilion. Commonly used as a noun.
[15.] posies. "Posy originally meant verses presented with a nosegay or a bunch of flowers, and hence the term came to be applied to the flowers themselves."
[16.] With that. At the same time.
Swannes. "Paulus Jovius, who died in 1552, describing the Thames, says: 'This river abounds in swans, swimming in flocks; the sight of whom and their noise are vastly agreeable to the fleets that meet them in their course.'"—Knight's Cyclopedia of London.
[17.] lee. Water, or river. See "Faerie Queene," V, ii, 19:
"His corps was carried downe along the lee,
Whose waters with his filthy bloud it stayned."