e a faulcon flit:
All which in that faire arras was most liuely writ.

6 each > his _1590_
8 Hag > Stag _conj. Jortin, in support of whom Upton quotes _Myth._
4.10. Smith describes the emendation as "irresistible". Apollo
is transformed to a lion and then a hawk in _Met._ 6.122-3. Some
editors retain _Hag_ and feel Spenser may have been referring to
a "haggard", an untamed hawk caught in its adult plumage_

1 He loved Isse for his dearest dame,

Isse > (Spenser combines two legends here: Apollo's disguised
appearance to Isse, daughter of Macareus (_Met._ 6.124), and the
myth of Admetus, king of Pherae in Thessaly, whom Apollo was
obliged to serve as a herdsman for nine years for having slain
the Cyclops (see Hyginus, _Fabulae_ 50, _DGDG_ 4.10))

2 And for her sake her cattle fed awhile,
3 And for her sake a cowherd vile became,

vile > lowly

4 The servant of Admetus, cowherd vile,

cowherd > (Roche (1978) suggests a possible pun on "coward")

5 While from heaven he suffered exile.
6 Long were to tell each other lovely fit,

Long were > [It would take a long time]
lovely > amorous

7 Now like a lion, hunting after spoil,
8 Now like a hag, now like a falcon flit:

hag > (See Textual Appendix)
flit > fleet, swift

9 All which in that fair arras was most lively writ.

arras > tapestry
lively > vividly, convincingly
writ > depicted; _hence:_ woven

311.40

Next vnto him was _Neptune_ pictured,
2 In his diuine resemblance wondrous lyke:
His face was rugged, and his hoarie hed
4 Dropped with brackish deaw; his three-forkt Pyke
He stearnly shooke, and therewith fierce did stryke
6 The raging billowes, that on euery syde
They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke,
8 That his swift charet might haue passage wyde,
Which foure great _Hippodames_ did draw in temewise tyde.

1 Next to him was Neptune pictured,

Next to > Immediately after

2 In his divine resemblance wondrous like:

like > lifelike

3 His face was rugged, and his hoary head

rugged > hairy

4 Dropped with brackish dew; his three-forked pike

Dropped > Sprinkled
three-forked pike > [trident]

5 He sternly shook, and therewith fierce did strike

sternly > fiercely; grimly
therewith > with it

6 The raging billows, that on every side

that > [so that]

7 They trembling stood, and made a long broad dike,
8 That his swift charet might