been
dispersed (variant of "faded")
their > [the beams']
9 And through the azure air shoot forth their perceant streams.
perceant > piercing (I have changed the word-order to follow
Collier's suggestion: see Textual Appendix. The syntax of lines
6-9 is confusing, but the intention is clear)
309.21
She also dofte her heauy haberieon,
2 Which the faire feature of her limbs did hyde,
And her well plighted frock, which she did won
4 To tucke about her short, when she did ryde,
She low let fall, that flowd from her lanck syde
6 Downe to her foot, with carelesse modestee.
Then of them all she plainly was espyde,
8 To be a woman wight, vnwist to bee,
The fairest woman wight, that euer eye did see.
1 She also doffed her heavy habergeon,
habergeon > {Sleeveless coat of chain-mail}
2 Which the fair feature of her limbs did hide,
3 And her well plighted frock, which she did won
plighted > pleated
did won > used, was accustomed
4 To tuck about her short when she did ride,
5 She low let fall; that flowed from her lank side
lank > lean, slender
6 Down to her foot, with careless modesty.
7 Then of them all she plainly was espied,
of > by
8 To be a woman wight, unwist to be,
wight > person (redundant, and thus intensifying "woman")
unwist > unknown
9 The fairest woman wight that ever eye did see.
309.22
Like as +_Minerua_+, being late returnd
2 From slaughter of the Giaunts conquered;
Where proud _Encelade_, whose wide nosethrils burnd
4 With breathed flames, like to a furnace red,
Transfixed with +the+ speare, downe tombled ded
6 From top of _Hemus_, by him heaped hye;
Hath loosd her helmet from her lofty hed,
8 And her _Gorgonian_ shield gins to vntye
From her left arme, to rest in glorious victorye.
1 _Minerua_ > _Bellona 1590_
5 the > her _1590_
1 Like Minerva, being late returned
Minerva > (Roman goddess of war; Bellona (see Textual Appendix) is
another name for her. Bellona is sometimes represented as the
wife of Mars, while Minerva, specifically, is identified with
Pallas Athene, the virgin goddess. Cf. 307.52:6, 706.3:7,
706.32:4-8; _SC_, "October", 114 and gloss)
late > lately
2 From slaughter of the Giants conquered
Giants > (The vast beings which, sprung from the blood that fell
from Uranus on the earth, piled Mount Ossa on Mount Pelion in
order to launch an unsucces
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