at Bulwarke lent
_1590_

1 Those same against the bulwark of the sight
2 Did lay strong siege, and battailous assault,

battailous > warlike, ready for battle

3 Nor once did yield it respite day nor night,
4 But soon as Titan gan his head exalt,

soon > [as soon]
gan > did; began to
exalt > raise [at dawn]

5 And soon again as he his light withheld,

soon > [as soon]

6 Their wicked engines they against it bent:

engines > engines of destruction, missiles; siege-engines; snares,
deceptions
bent > directed, brought to bear

7 That is, each thing by which the eyes may fault,

fault > err, sin

8 But two than all more huge and violent,
9 Beauty, and money, they that bulwark sorely rent.

rent > tore, broke, burst

211.10

The second Bulwarke was the _Hearing_ sence,
2 Gainst which the second troupe +dessignment+ makes;
Deformed creatures, in straunge difference,
4 Some hauing heads like Harts, some like to Snakes,
Some like wild Bores late rouzd out of the brakes;
6 Slaunderous reproches, and fowle infamies,
Leasings, backbytings, and vaine-glorious crakes,
8 Bad counsels, prayses, and false flatteries.
All those against that fort did bend their batteries.

2 dessignment > assignment _1590_

1 The second bulwark was the hearing sense,
2 Against which the second troop designment makes;

designment > design, scheming, contrivance

3 Deformed creatures, in strange difference,
4 Some having heads like harts', some like snakes',
5 Some like wild boars', late roused out of the brakes;

late > lately
brakes > bracken, ferns; brushwood

6 Slanderous reproaches, and foul infamies,
7 Leasings, backbitings, and vainglorious crakes,

Leasings > Lies
crakes > boasts

8 Bad counsels, praises, and false flatteries:
9 All those against that fort did bend their batteries.

bend > apply, direct
batteries > {Assaults, assaults with many blows; artillery}

211.11

Likewise that same third Fort, that is the _Smell_
2 Of that third troupe was cruelly assayd:
Whose hideous shapes were like to feends of hell,
4 Some like to hounds, some like to +Apes, dismayd+,
Some like to Puttockes, all in plumes arayd:
6 All shap't according their conditions,
For by those vgly formes weren pourtrayd,
8 Foolish delights and fond abusions,
Which do that sence besiege with light illusions.

4 Apes, dismayd