1."And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus" (1009).
2. My guess: Using the context clues in the sentence I think that durst means to do but in the past tense.
3. Definition: "A past tense of dare" (Thefreedictionary.com).
4. Oh I see now. He's describing the painting in his house to his guests, that shows his previous wife. He has "drawn a curtain" for his wife because, as he says later in the poem, she was a very flirtatious women. She was a beautiful women but she didn't have a beautiful personality. So when he says "if they durst", he means that if the guests dare to look beyond her appearance, the beauty would not be portrayed anymore.
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