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have passage wide, That > [So that] charet > chariot 9 Which four great hippodames did draw, in teamwise tied. hippodame > ?hippopotamus (from the medieval spelling "ypotame"; or perhaps this is a new creature, invented by Spenser, half horse and half woman, the female counterpart of the centaur, aquatic rather than terrestrial. The prefix _hippo-_ comes from the Greek word for "horse". "Damaios" is an epithet of Neptune the Tamer, from the Greek _damao_, to subdue; but "dame" (meaning "wife", "woman") is cognate with the Latin _domina_ (meaning "lady of the house", "mistress"). Maclean (1982) suggests "sea-horse", from 311.41:1, which might however be a figurative term. See also 209.50:8) teamwise > [a team-like manner] 311.41 His sea-horses did seeme to snort amayne, 2 And from their nosethrilles blow the brynie streame, That made the sparckling waues to smoke agayne, 4 And flame with gold, but the white fomy creame, Did shine with siluer, and shoot forth his beame. 6 The God himselfe did pensiue seeme and sad, And hong adowne his head, as he did dreame: 8 For priuy loue his brest empierced had, Ne ought but deare _Bisaltis_ ay could make him glad. 1 His sea-horses did seem to snort amain, amain > vehemently 2 And from their nostrils blow the briny stream, 3 That made the sparkling waves to smoke again, again > again; in return 4 And flame with gold, but the white foamy cream 5 Did shine with silver, and shoot forth its beam. 6 The god himself did pensive seem and sad, pensive > anxious; sorrowful 7 And hung adown his head, as he did dream: adown > down as > [as though] 8 For privy love his breast empierced had, privy > secret breast > heart empierced > transfixed 9 Ne aught but dear Bisaltis ay could make him glad. Ne aught > Naught, no one at all Bisaltis > (Or Theophane, daughter of Bisaltes, changed by Neptune into a ewe; he changed himself into a ram. See _Met._ 6.117 and Hyginus, _Fabulae_ 188) ay > ever 311.42 He loued eke _Iphimedia_ deare, 2 And _Aeolus_ faire daughter _Arne_ +hight,+ For whom he turnd him selfe into a Steare, 4 And fed on fodder, to beguile her sight. Also to win _Deucalions_ daughter bright, 6 +He+ turnd him selfe into a Dolphin fayre; And like a winged horse he tooke his flight, 8 To +snaky+-locke _Medusa_ to repayre, On whom he got fair
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