ight.

1 Yet can he never die, but dying lives,
2 And does himself with sorrow new sustain,
3 That death and life at once to him gives:

at once > together

4 And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
5 There dwells he ever, miserable swain,

swain > {Fellow, man of low degree; also: gallant, lover}

6 Hateful both to himself and every wight;

wight > person, creature

7 Where he, through privy grief and horror vain,

privy > secret, hidden
vain > futile; empty; foolish

8 Is waxed so deformed, that he has quite

Is waxed > Has become

9 Forgotten he was a man, and Jealousy is hight.

hight > called

CANTO XI

_Britomart chaceth Ollyphant,
2 findes Scudamour distrest:
Assayes the house of Busyrane,
4 where Loues spoyles are exprest._

1 Britomart chases Ollyphant,
2 finds Scudamour distressed:
3 Assays the house of Busirane,

Assays > Assails; essays, attempts; _hence:_ makes an attempt on,
attacks
Busirane > (Named after Busiris, a mythical Egyptian king whose
cruelties included the sacrifice of strangers to Jupiter. See
Ovid, _Ars Amatoria_ 1.643-58)

4 where Love's spoils are expressed.

Love > [Cupid]
expressed > portrayed, represented; represented symbolically

311.1

O Hatefull hellish Snake, what furie furst
2 Brought thee from balefull house of _Proserpine_,
Where in her bosome she thee long had nurst,
4 And fostred vp with bitter milke of tine,
Fowle Gealosie, that turnest loue diuine
6 To ioylesse dread, and mak'st the louing hart
With hatefull thoughts to languish and to pine,
8 And feed it selfe with selfe-consuming smart?
Of all the passions in the mind thou vilest art.

1 O hateful hellish snake, what Fury first

hellish snake > (Addressing Jealousy)
Fury > (In most representations, the Furies' hair is entwined with,
or consists of, snakes: see e.g. _Aen._ 7.342-55)

2 Brought you from baleful House of Proserpine,

baleful > [the] deadly, [the] miserable (perhaps also connoting
"hell-fire": cf. 101.16:7)
House of Proserpine > (Hell; Proserpine is queen of the underworld,
the consort of Pluto)

3 Where in her bosom she you long had nursed,

she > (Presumably, Proserpine rather than the Fury)

4 And fostered up with bitter milk of teen?

teen > grief; woe; pain

5 Foul Jealousy, that turn love divine
6 To joyless dread, and make the loving heart
7 Wi