ly

2 Nor stayed his flight, nor fearful agony,

stayed > delayed
agony > anguish

3 Till he came to a rocky hill
4 Over the sea, suspended dreadfully,
5 That living creature it would terrify

That > [So that; that]

6 To look adown, or upward to the height:

adown > down

7 From thence he threw himself dispiteously,

dispiteously > pitilessly

8 All desperate of his fore-damned spirit,

desperate of > despairing of, without hope for
fore-damned > [damned beforehand, by his former conduct]

9 That seemed no help for him was left in living sight.

That > [So that it; such that]

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But through long anguish, and selfe-murdring thought
2 He was so wasted and forpined quight,
That all his substance was consum'd to nought,
4 And nothing left, but like an aery Spright,
That on the rockes he fell so flit and light,
6 That he thereby receiu'd no hurt at all,
But chaunced on a craggy cliff to light;
8 Whence he with crooked clawes so long did crall,
That at the last he found a caue with entrance small.

1 But through long anguish, and self-murdering thought,
2 He was so wasted and forpined quite,

forpined > {Caused to pine, caused to starve}

3 That all his substance was consumed to naught,
4 And nothing left but like an airy sprite,

like > [something resembling]

5 That on the rocks he fell so flit and light,

That > [So that]
flit > unsubstantial; _or:_ fleet: evanescent, shifting

6 That he thereby received no hurt at all,

thereby > thereby, as a result; there

7 But chanced on a craggy cliff to light;

light > alight

8 Whence he with crooked claws so long did crawl
9 That at the last he found a cave with entrance small.

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Into the same he creepes, and thenceforth there
2 Resolu'd to build his balefull mansion,
In drery darkenesse, and continuall feare
4 Of that rockes fall, which euer and anon
Threates with huge ruine him to fall vpon,
6 That he dare neuer sleepe, but that one eye
Still ope he keepes for that occasion;
8 Ne euer rests he in tranquillity,
The roring billowes beat his bowre so boystrously.

1 Into the same he creeps, and thenceforth there
2 Resolved to build his baleful mansion,

baleful > miserable, unhappy; deadly
mansion > lodging, place of abode

3 In dreary darkness, and continual fear
4 Of that rock's fall, which eve