hight > am called
6 Against my liking back, to do you grace:
7 But +nor+ for gold nor glee will I abide
nor > neither
gold nor glee > ["love nor money": glee = beauty, joy]
8 By you, when you arrive in that same place;
9 For liefer had I die than see his deadly face."
liefer had > rather would
109.33
Ere long they come, where that same wicked wight
2 His dwelling has, low in an hollow caue,
Farre vnderneath a craggie clift ypight,
4 Darke, dolefull, drearie, like a greedie graue,
That still for carrion carcases doth craue:
6 On top whereof aye dwelt the ghastly Owle,
Shrieking his balefull note, which euer draue
8 Farre from that haunt all other chearefull fowle;
And all about it wandring ghostes did waile and howle.
1 Ere long they come where that same wicked wight
wight > creature
2 His dwelling has, low in a hollow cave,
hollow > insincere, false; _also:_ hungry (these readings are
suggested by the tautology: cf. 101.11:6, but also 303.8:3)
3 Far underneath a craggy cliff pight:
pight > placed
4 Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy grave,
greedy > greedy, eager
5 That still for carrion carcases does crave;
still > continuously
6 On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl,
ay > ever, always
ghastly > terrible, causing terror (esp. of the supernatural)
owl > (To the Romans, an omen of death: see _Met._ 10.453; see also
105.30:6, etc.)
7 Shrieking his baleful note, which ever drove
8 Far from that haunt all other cheerful fowl;
9 And all about it wandering ghosts did wail and howl.
109.34
And all about old stockes and stubs of trees,
2 Whereon nor fruit, nor leafe was euer seene,
Did hang vpon the ragged rocky knees;
4 On which had many wretches hanged beene,
Whose carcases were +scattered+ on the greene,
6 And throwne about the +cliffs+. Arriued there,
That bare-head knight for dread and dolefull teene,
8 Would faine haue fled, ne durst approchen neare,
But th'other forst him stay, and comforted in feare.
5 scattered > scattred _1590_
6 cliffs > clifts _1590 etc.: FE_
1 And all about old stocks and stubs of trees,
stocks > dead trunks; _also:_ stumps
stubs > {Broken branches remaining on the stem; also: stumps}
2 Whereon +nor+ fruit nor leaf was ever seen,
nor > neither
3 Did hang upon the ragged rocky knees;
knees > projections [of rock]
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