My lips two blushing pilgrims ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers kiss.
Punctuated as the sentence is in modern editions 'so' must mean 'in like manner', referring back to the statement about the river.
Page 263, l. 421. this Center, is the reading of the first edition and is doubtless correct, the 't' having been dropped accidentally in 1621 and so in all subsequent editions. 'This Center' is 'this Earth.' The Earth could neither support such a tower nor provide material with which to build it. Compare:
The Heavens themselves, the Planets, and this Center,
Observe degree, priority, and place.