for shame doth blush to +write+
But at her rompe she growing had behind
4 A foxes taile, with dong all fowly dight;
And eke her feete most monstrous were in sight;
6 For one of them was like an Eagles claw,
With griping talaunts armd to greedy fight,
8 The other like a Beares vneuen paw:
More vgly shape yet neuer liuing creature saw.

2 write > write; _1590, 1609_

1 Her nether parts, the shame of all her kind,
2 My chaster Muse for shame does blush to write;

chaster > too-chaste
write > write of, describe

3 But at her rump she growing had behind
4 A fox's tail, with dung all foully dight;

dight > dressed, fitted; _hence:_ encrusted, smeared

5 And eke her feet most monstrous were in sight;

eke > moreover

6 For one of them was like an eagle's claw,
7 With gripping talons armed to greedy fight,

greedy > eager, rapacious

8 The other like a bear's uneven paw:

uneven > irregular; rugged (see _Rev._ 13.2)

9 More ugly shape yet never living creature saw.

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Which when the knights beheld, amazd they were,
2 And wondred at so fowle deformed wight.
Such then (said _Vna_) as she seemeth here,
4 Such is the face of falshood, such the sight
Of fowle _Duessa_, when her borrowed light
6 Is laid away, and counterfesaunce knowne.
Thus when they had the witch disrobed quight,
8 And all her filthy feature open showne,
They let her goe at will, and wander wayes vnknowne.

1 Which when the knights beheld, amazed they were,
2 And wondered at so foul deformed wight.

wondered > marvelled
so > such [a]
wight > creature

3 "Such then," said Una, "as she seems here,
4 Such is the face of falsehood: such the sight
5 Of foul Duessa, when her borrowed light
6 Is laid away, and counterfeisance known."

counterfeisance > imposture

7 Thus when they had the witch disrobed quite,
8 And all her filthy feature open shown,

feature > {Form, proportions; bodily shape or build}

9 They let her go at will, and wander ways unknown.

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She flying fast from heauens hated face,
2 And from the world that her discouered wide,
Fled to the wastfull wildernesse apace,
4 From liuing eyes her open shame to hide,
And +lurkt+ in rocks and caues long vnespide.
6 But that faire crew of knights, and _Vna_ faire
Did in that castle afterwards abide,
8 To rest them selues, and