sad humour > heavy moisture (see line 4)

3 As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast

As > [Like a]
Morpheus > (The god of dreams: one of the sons of Somnus, the god of
sleep. His name signifies "Fashioner", "Moulder", because he
shapes the sleeper's dreams)

4 Sweet slumbering dew, which to sleep them bids.

dew > (The dew of sleep. Cf. _PL_ 4.614, _Richard III_ IV i 84,
_Julius Caesar_ II i 230)

5 To their lodgings then his guests he rids:

rids > dispatches

6 Where, when all drowned in deadly sleep he finds,

deadly > death-like

7 He to his study goes, and there amidst
8 His magic books, and arts of sundry kinds,
9 He seeks out mighty charms to trouble sleepy minds.

sleepy > sleeping

101.37

Then choosing out few wordes most horrible,
2 (Let none them read) thereof did verses frame,
With which and other spelles like terrible,
4 He bad awake blacke _Plutoes_ griesly Dame,
And cursed heauen, and spake reprochfull shame
6 Of highest God, the Lord of life and light;
A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name
8 Great _Gorgon_, Prince of darknesse and dead night,
At which _Cocytus_ quakes, and _Styx_ is put to flight.

1 Then, choosing out few words most horrible

few > [a few]

2 (Let none them read), thereof did verses frame,
3 With which, and other spells like terrible,

like > similarly

4 He bade awake black Pluto's grisly dame,

Pluto > (God of the underworld, brother of Jupiter and Neptune,
husband of Proserpine)
grisly > horrible, fearsome
dame > (Pluto's consort, Proserpine, the daughter of Ceres and
Jupiter; she was abducted by Pluto and taken to the lower world)

5 And cursed heaven, and spoke reproachful shame
6 Of highest God, the Lord of life and light;
7 A bold, bad man, that dared to call by name

call > invoke, summon

8 Great Gorgon, prince of darkness and dead night,

Gorgon > (Demogorgon, a primordial enchanter commanding the
underworld (_DGDG_ 1.1): see also 105.22:5, 402.47:7)

9 At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight.

Cocytus > ("The stream of wailing": one of the five rivers of hell:
the others are Acheron, Phlegethon, Lethe, and Styx)
Styx > (The river of hate, which dead souls must cross)

101.38

And forth he cald out of deepe darknesse dred
2 Legions of Sprights, the which like little flyes
Fluttring about his euer damned hed,
4 A