Challenging Passage:
How sweetly you do minister to love,
That know love's grief by his complexion!
But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
I would have salved it with a longer treatise.
Following the thought:
In order to understand this passage, I would have to find the definition for the words I do not know. The following words would be:
-Minister: understand/achieve
-Lest: preventing
-Salved: fix
-Treatise: a written work
After understanding the definitions, then I would try to understand each line.
"How sweetly you do minister to love, that know love's grief by his complexion!"" This means that the person she is addressing understands love and shows her love the correct way.
"But lest my liking might too sudden seem..." This means that she doesn't want the person to think she is rushing in, or that her emotions might seem sudden.
"I would have salved it with a longer treatise." This means that she can explain with a longer story.
The passage in Contemporary English:
You understand my love too well,
I know my liking seems too quick,
But let me explain my emotions with a longer explanation.