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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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