lthy sprites,

companying > keeping company

7 Through vain illusion of their lust unclean,

Through vain illusion of > [Deluded by]

8 They brought forth giants, and such dreadful wights

wights > creatures

9 As far exceeded men in their immeasured mights.

immeasured > immense, vast
mights > strengths, capacities

210.9

They held this land, and with their filthinesse
2 Polluted this same gentle soyle long time:
That their owne mother loathd their beastlinesse,
4 And gan abhorre her broods vnkindly crime,
All were they borne of her owne natiue slime;
6 Vntill that _Brutus_ anciently deriu'd
From royall stocke of old +_Assaracs_+ line,
8 Driuen by fatall error, here arriu'd,
And them of their vniust possession depriu'd.

7 _Assaracs_ > _Assaraos 1596_

1 They held this land, and with their filthiness

filthiness > obscenity, moral defilement

2 Polluted this same gentle soil long time:

gentle > noble

3 That their own mother loathed their beastliness,

That > [So that]
their own mother > [the soil of Albion]

4 And gan abhor her brood's unkindly crime,

gan > began to; did
unkindly > unnatural
crime > sins (collectively)

5 All were they born of her own native slime;

All were they > [Although they were]
slime > slime, soil; flesh (cf. 209.21)

6 Until Brutus (anciently derived
7 From royal stock of old Assaracus' line),
8 Driven by fatal error, here arrived,

fatal > predestined; fatal
error > wandering (see _Aen._ 1.2, _HRB_ 1.3-15, 309.48); error (in
that he killed his father in a hunting accident and was
subsequently banished from Italy: see _HRB_ 1.3)

9 And them of their unjust possession deprived.

210.10

But ere he had established his throne,
2 And spred his empire to the vtmost shore,
He fought great battels with his saluage fone;
4 In which he them defeated euermore,
And many Giants left on groning flore;
6 That well can witnesse yet vnto this day
The westerne Hogh, besprincled with the gore
8 Of mightie _Go{e"}mot_, whom in stout fray
_Corineus_ conquered, and cruelly did slay.

1 But ere he had established his throne,
2 And spread his empire to the utmost shore,
3 He fought great battles with his savage foes;
4 In which he them defeated evermore,
5 And many giants left on groaning floor;
6 That well can witness yet to this day
7 The western Ho