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proud-pied: brilliantly multi-colored. trim: finery.
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that: so that. heavy: melancholy; morose. The planet Saturn was associated with gloom and sluggishness.
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yet nor: yet neither. lays: songs.
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different flowers: various flowers; variegated flowers.
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summer's story: pleasant narrative.
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They were but sweet, but figures of delight, / Drawn after you, you pattern of all those: They were only sweet, only delightful forms, produced in imitation of you, the model of all sweetness and delight.
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and, you away: i.e., because you were absent.
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shadow: portrait. these: the flowers.