> Apes mismayd _(i.e. "mis-made") conj. Jortin.
Church suggests that _dismayd_ = "dismayed" and that _Some like
to hounds, some like to Apes, _should be read parenthetically, so
that _dismayd_, or _mismayd_, refers to the _feends of hell_; cf.
303.50:3_

1 Likewise that same third fort (that is, the smell)
2 Of that third troop was cruelly assayed:

Of > By
assayed > assaulted; put to the test; attempted

3 Whose hideous shapes were like to fiends of hell,

were like to > resembled

4 Some like to hounds, some like to apes dismade,

dismade > ?mismade (see Textual Appendix)

5 Some like to puttocks', all in plumes arrayed:

puttock > kite (a carrion-eating bird of prey, _Milvus milvus_,
formerly common in England)

6 All shaped according their conditions,

their conditions > [to their natures (i.e. to their allegorical
roles)]

7 For by those ugly forms were portrayed
8 Foolish delights and fond abusions,

fond > foolish
abusions > perversions (esp. of the truth)

9 Which do that sense besiege with light illusions.

light > wanton, frivolous

211.12

And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent,
2 Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the _Tast_,
Was as the rest, a grysie rablement,
4 Some mouth'd like greedy Oystriges, some +fast+
Like loathly Toades, some fashioned in the wast
6 Like swine; for so deformd is luxury,
+Surfeat+, misdiet, and vnthriftie wast,
8 Vaine feasts, and idle superfluity:
All those this sences Fort assayle incessantly.

4 fast > fac't _1609_
7 Surfeat > Surfait _1609_

1 And that fourth band, which cruel battery bent

battery > {Assault, assault with many blows; artillery}
bent > directed, applied

2 Against the fourth bulwark (that is, the taste),
3 Was as the rest, a grisy rabblement,

grisy > horrible, fearsome; grisly
rabblement > rabble

4 Some mouthed like greedy ostriches, some faced

faced > [having faces]

5 Like loathly toads, some fashioned in the waist

loathly > loathsome, disgusting

6 Like swine; for so deformed is luxury,

so > in this manner
luxury > excess; dissipation

7 Surfeit, misdiet, and unthrifty waste,

misdiet > improper diet
unthrifty > senseless; profligate

8 Vain feasts, and idle superfluity:
9 All those this sense's fort assail incessantly.

211.13

But the fift troupe most horrible of hew,
2 And fierce of force, +was+ dreadful