nted sound

As > [As though]
unwonted > unaccustomed

4 With which her iron wheels did them affray,

affray > terrify

5 And her dark grisly look them much dismay;

grisly > horrible, fearsome

6 The messenger of death, the ghastly owl,

ghastly > terrible, causing terror (from same root as "ghost")
owl > (To the Romans, an omen of death: see _Met._ 10.453; see also
109.33:6, etc.)

7 With dreary shrieks did also her bewray;

dreary > dreadful
bewray > betray, reveal

8 And hungry wolves continually did howl
9 At her abhorred face, so filthy and so foul.

105.31

Thence turning backe in silence soft they stole,
2 And brought the heauie corse with easie pace
To yawning gulfe of deepe _Auernus_ hole.
4 By that same hole an entrance darke and bace
With smoake and sulphure hiding all the place,
6 Descends to hell: there creature neuer past,
That backe returned without heauenly grace;
8 But dreadfull _Furies_, which their chaines haue brast,
And damned sprights sent forth to make ill men aghast.

1 Thence turning back in silence soft they stole,
2 And brought the heavy corse with easy pace

corse > body

3 To yawning gulf of deep Avernus' hole.

gulf > abyss
Avernus > (Lake Avernus, a volcanic lake near Naples, still called
Lago d'Averno. Near it was the cave of the Cumaean Sibyl,
through which Aeneas descended to the infernal regions: see
_Aen._ 6.237 ff.)

4 By that same hole an entrance, dark and base,

By > [By means of, through]
base > low

5 With smoke and sulphur hiding all the place,
6 Descends to hell: there creature never passed,
7 That back returned without heavenly grace;
8 But dreadful Furies who their chains have burst,

But > [Except]

9 And damned sprites sent forth to make ill men aghast.

ill > evil
aghast > frightened (esp. with terror of the supernatural)

105.32

By that same way the direfull dames doe driue
2 Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood,
And downe to _Plutoes_ house are come biliue:
4 Which passing through, on euery side them stood
The trembling ghosts with sad amazed mood,
6 Chattring their yron teeth, and staring wide
With stonie eyes; and all the hellish brood
8 Of feends infernall flockt on euery side,
To gaze on earthly wight, that with the Night durst ride.

1 By that same way the direful dames do drive
2 Their mournful ch