n]

7 And mournful meed of joys delicious:

meed > reward
delicious > voluptuous

8 But palmer, if it might you so aggrate,

aggrate > please

9 Let them returned be to their former state."

212.86

Streight way he with his vertuous staffe them strooke,
2 And streight of beasts they comely men became;
Yet being men they did vnmanly looke,
4 And stared ghastly, some for inward shame,
And some for wrath, to see their captiue Dame:
6 But one aboue the rest in speciall,
That had an hog beene late, hight _Grille_ by name,
8 Repined greatly, and did him miscall,
That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall.

1 Straightway he with his virtuous staff them struck,

virtuous > {Possessing occult power; cf. 212.26:6, 212.40:8}

2 And straight of beasts they comely men became;

straight > straightway, immediately
of > [from the form of]

3 Yet being men they did unmanly look,

unmanly > not human

4 And stared ghastly: some for inward shame,

ghastly > {Ghastlily, horribly; in a ghost-like manner; as if
terrified by the supernatural}

5 And some for wrath, to see their captive dame;
6 But one above the rest in special,

in special > especially, particularly

7 That had a hog been late, hight Grill by name,

late > lately
hight > called
Grill > "Pig" (Greek; one of Circe's former lovers (_Odyssey_
10.238-41): the character figures in Plutarch's dialogue,
_Whether the Beasts have the Use of Reason_)

8 Repined greatly, and did him miscall,

Repined > Fretted, complained
miscall > revile

9 That had from hoggish form him brought to natural.

212.87

Said _Guyon_, See the mind of beastly man,
2 That hath so soone forgot the excellence
Of his creation, when he life began,
4 That now he chooseth, with vile difference,
To be a beast, and lacke intelligence.
6 To whom the Palmer thus, The donghill kind
Delights in filth and foule incontinence:
8 Let _Grill_ be _Grill_, and haue his hoggish mind,
But let vs hence depart, whilest wether serues and wind.

1 Said Guyon, "See the mind of beastly man,
2 That has so soon forgotten the excellence
3 Of his creation, when he life began,
4 That now he chooses, with vile difference,

difference > discrimination; argument, disagreement

5 To be a beast, and lack intelligence."
6 To whom the palmer thus: "The dunghill kind
7 Delights