thoughts and fantasies,

idle > foolish, weak-headed

7 Devices, dreams, opinions unsound,

Devices > Notions

8 Shows, visions, soothsays, and prophecies;

Shows > Apparitions
soothsays > prognostications

9 And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies.

as > such as
leasings > lies, tall stories

209.52

Emongst them all sate he, which wonned there,
2 That hight _Phantastes_ by his nature trew;
A man of yeares yet fresh, as mote appere,
4 Of swarth complexion, and of crabbed hew,
That him full of melancholy did shew;
6 Bent hollow beetle browes, sharpe staring eyes,
That mad or foolish seemd: one by his vew
8 Mote deeme him borne with ill disposed skyes,
When oblique _Saturne_ sate in +the house+ of agonyes.

9 the house > th'house _1609_

1 Amongst them all sat he who wonned there,

wonned > dwelt

2 That hight Phantastes by his nature true;

hight > was named
Phantastes > "Fantast", "Visionary" (Greek: literally, "Boaster")

3 A man of years, yet fresh as might appear,
4 Of swarth complexion, and of crabbed hue,

swarth > swart, swarthy
crabbed > churlish, irritable
hue > appearance

5 That him full of melancholy did show;

melancholy > {Black bile, one of the four chief humours or fluids
whose proportions in the body, according to medieval physiology,
determine one's constitution}
show > [reveal to be]

6 Bent hollow beetle brows, sharp staring eyes,

staring > staring; glaring

7 That mad or foolish seemed: one, by his view,
8 Might deem him born with ill-disposed skies,

skies > astrological influences

9 When oblique Saturn sat in the House of Agonies.

oblique > {In the oblique ascension or declension; lying obliquely
with respect to the celestial equator; also: deviating from right
conduct or thought}
House of Agonies > (Possibly Pisces, the twelfth and last
astrological house, associated with adversity and death. A
"house" in astrology is a sign of the zodiac considered as the
seat of the greatest influence of a particular planet, each of
the planets of the ancients having two such houses, a day house
and a night house. Pisces might thus be a house of Saturn)

209.53

Whom _Alma_ hauing shewed to her guestes,
2 Thence brought them to the second roome, whose wals
Were painted faire with memorable gestes,
4 Of famous Wisards, and with picturals
Of Magistrates, of courts, of