The Meaning in Spenser's Poem

[HollyinNNV]

My dd is memorizing the following poem. She and I understand most of it. But we're both getting a little lost once we get to the line that reads "For I my selve.........." Then we are ok again once we get to "To dy in dust...."

Here's the poem.

ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray.
Vayne men, sayd she, that doest in vaine assay,
A mortall thing so to immortalize,
*For I my selve shall lyke to this decay,
And eek my name bee wyped out lykewize.
Not so, (quod I) let baser things devize
*To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the hevens wryte your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall al the world subdew,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.

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eek is spelled eke in some of the editions of this poem. I think it means to try hard. Quod looks like Latin. And it seems like it should mean "say." But, it is also defined as a jail.

I would love help with these lines. Thanks!!!
Holly

[Eliana]

quod= quoth
eek = also

"For I myself so lyke to this decay and eke my name bee wyped out lykewise"
= I'm going to decay like this and my name will also be wiped out. {spoken by the lady}

"not so, (quod I) let baser things devize" = not so, I said, let lesser things devise... {spoken by the poet}

Does that help at all?

[HollyinNNV]

quod= quoth
eek = also

"For I myself so lyke to this decay and eke my name bee wyped out lykewise"
= I'm going to decay like this and my name will also be wiped out. {spoken by the lady}

"not so, (quod I) let baser things devize" = not so, I said, let lesser things devise... {spoken by the poet}

Does that help at all?

Yes! Thank you Eliana!
Holly