ere late his treasure he entombed had,

late > recently

3 Where when he found it not (for Trompart base
4 Had it purloined for his master bad);
5 With extreme fury he became quite mad,
6 And ran away, ran with himself away:
7 That who so strangely had him seen bestad,

That who so strangely had him seen bestad > [So that whoever had
seen him so strangely beset]

8 With upstart hair, and staring eyes' dismay,

upstart > upstanding

9 From Limbo-lake him late escaped sure would say.

Limbo-lake > (The pit of hell; Limbo is the region at the edge of
hell where the unbaptized are confined; "lake" comes to us via
Latin from the Greek _lakkos_, = pit, hollow, hole (filled with
water or not))

310.55

High ouer hilles and ouer dales he fled,
2 As if the wind him on his winges had borne,
Ne banck nor bush could stay him, when he sped
4 His nimble feet, as treading still on thorne:
Griefe, and despight, and gealosie, and scorne
6 Did all the way him follow hard behind,
And he himselfe himselfe loath'd so forlorne,
8 So shamefully forlorne of womankind;
That as a Snake, still lurked in his wounded mind.

1 High over hills and over dales he fled,
2 As if the wind him on its wings had borne,
3 Neither bank nor bush could stay him when he sped

stay > hinder

4 His nimble feet, as treading still on thorn:

still > ever

5 Grief, and Despite, and Jealousy, and Scorn

Despite > Rage; Malice (personified, as a fragment of his own
disintegrating mind, together with Grief, Jealousy, and Scorn:
see Upton (1758))

6 Did all the way him follow hard behind,

hard > closely; fiercely, strenuously; cruelly

7 And he himself himself loathed so forlorn,
8 So shamefully forlorn of womankind:

of > by

9 That, as a snake, still lurked in his wounded mind.

as > like
snake > (Traditionally associated with jealousy: see 311.1)

310.56

Still fled he forward, looking backward still,
2 Ne stayd his flight, nor fearefull agony,
Till that he came vnto a rockie hill,
4 Ouer the sea, suspended dreadfully,
That liuing creature it would terrify,
6 To looke adowne, or vpward to the hight:
From thence he threw himselfe dispiteously,
8 All desperate of his fore-damned spright,
That seem'd no helpe for him was left in liuing sight.

1 Still fled he forward, looking backward still,

Still > Still; continuous