disarm'd, and spredding on the ground
Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round,
6 They softly wipt away the +gelly blood+
From th'orifice; which hauing well vpbound,
8 They pourd in soueraine balme, and Nectar good,
Good both for earthly med'cine, and for heauenly food.

6 gelly blood > gelly-blood _1590;_ ielly'd blood _1609_

1 Thus, when they all had sorrowed their fill,
2 They softly began to search his grisly wound:

search > probe; examine
grisly > fearsome

3 And that they might him handle more at will,

that > [so that]

4 They him disarmed, and spreading on the ground

disarmed > relieved of armour

5 Their watchet mantles fringed with silver round,

watchet > {Light blue, sky-blue; cloth of this colour}

6 They softly wiped away the jelly-blood
7 From the orifice; which having well upbound,
8 They poured in sovereign balm, and nectar good,

sovereign > supremely efficacious

9 Good both for earthly medicine, and for heavenly food.

heavenly food > (Because nectar is the drink of the gods)

304.41

Tho when the lilly handed _Liagore_,
2 (This _Liagore_ whylome had learned skill
In leaches craft, by great _Appolloes_ lore,
4 Sith her whylome vpon the high _Pindus_ hill,
He loued, and at last her wombe did fill
6 With heauenly seed, whereof wise _P{ae}on_ sprong)
Did feele his pulse, she knew +there+ staied still
8 Some litle life his feeble sprites emong;
Which to his mother told, despeire she from her flong.

7 there > their _1590, 1596; cf. 110.36:6, 202.30:1, 206.27:9,
211.21:8, 312.28:1_

1 Tho when the lily-handed Liagore

Tho > Then
Liagore > "White-armed" (Greek. She is one of the nereids. See
Hesiod, _Theogony_ 257)

2 (This Liagore whilom had learned skill

whilom > in ancient times; at some past time

3 In leech's craft, by great Apollo's lore,

leech > doctor
Apollo > (The god who affords help and wards off evils, father of
Aesculapius, the god of healing; associated with Paean, though
the details of Paean's conception are apparently invented by
Spenser)
lore > teaching, doctrine

4 Sith her whilom upon the high Pindus hill,

Sith > Since
Pindus > (A range of high mountains in northern Greece; the name of
"Pindus" was confined to that part which separates Thessaly and
Epirus)

5 He loved, and at last her womb did fill
6 With heavenly seed, whereof wise Paean spr