s, all cruell keene,
4 Headed with flint, and feathers bloudie dide,
Such as the _Indians_ in their quiuers hide;
6 Those could he well direct and streight as line,
And bid them strike the marke, which he had eyde,
8 Ne was +there+ salue, ne was +there+ medicine,
That mote recure their wounds: so inly they did tine.
8 there > their _1590, 1596; cf. 110.36:6, 202.30:1, 206.27:9,
304.41:7, 312.28:1_
8 there > their _1590, 1596_
1 And in his hand a bent bow was seen,
2 And many arrows under his right side,
3 All deadly dangerous, all cruel keen,
keen > sharp
4 Headed with flint, and feathers bloody dyed,
5 Such as the Indians in their quivers hide;
6 Those could he well direct and straight as line,
7 And bid them strike the mark, which he had eyed,
8 Neither was there salve, nor was there medicine,
9 That might recure their wounds: so inly they did teen.
recure > cure, restore
inly > inwardly
teen > vex, enrage, give grief
211.22
As pale and wan as ashes was his looke,
2 His bodie leane and meagre as a rake,
And skin all withered like a dryed rooke,
4 Thereto as cold and drery as a Snake,
That seem'd to tremble euermore, and quake:
6 All in a canuas thin he was bedight,
And girded with a belt of twisted brake,
8 Vpon his head he wore an Helmet light,
Made of a dead mans skull, that seem'd a ghastly sight.
1 As pale and wan as ashes was his look,
2 His body lean and meagre as a rake,
meagre > emaciated
3 And skin all withered like a dried rook,
rook > (A sort of crow, _Corvus frugilegus_, nesting communally
around farmsteads; the partly feathered squabs were formerly much
taken as food, sometimes being dried and put in store)
4 Thereto as cold and dreary as a snake,
Thereto > Moreover, also
dreary > dreadful, grim
5 That seemed to tremble evermore, and quake:
6 All in a canvas thin he was bedight,
bedight > arrayed; _hence:_ clad
7 And girded with a belt of twisted brake;
brake > fern, bracken
8 Upon his head he wore a helmet light,
9 Made of a dead man's skull, that seemed a ghastly sight.
ghastly > {Frightful, causing terror of the supernatural}
211.23
_Maleger_ was his name, and after him,
2 There follow'd fast at hand two wicked Hags,
With hoarie lockes all loose, and visage grim;
4 Their feet vnshod, their bodies wrapt in rags,
And both as
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