Acheron > (The "Stream of Woe": one of the five rivers of hell. The others are Cocytus, Phlegethon, Lethe, and Styx) 2 Where many souls sit wailing woefully, 3 And come to fiery flood of Phlegethon, Phlegethon > (The "Stream of Fire": one of the five rivers of hell, through which fire flows instead of water (see _Aen._ 6.551)) 4 Where the damned ghosts in torments fry, 5 And with sharp shrilling shrieks do bootless cry, bootless > hopelessly, without remedy 6 Cursing high Jove, who them thither sent. 7 The house of endless pain is built thereby, thereby > there; next to it [Phlegethon] 8 In which ten thousand sorts of punishment 9 The cursed creatures do eternally torment. 105.34 Before the threshold dreadfull _Cerberus_ 2 His three deformed heads did lay along, Curled with thousand adders venemous, 4 And lilled forth his bloudie flaming tong: At them he gan to reare his bristles strong, 6 And felly gnarre, vntill dayes enemy Did him appease; then downe his taile he hong 8 And suffered them to passen quietly: For she in hell and heauen had power equally. 1 Before the threshold dreadful Cerberus Cerberus > (The three-headed hound guarding the gates of hell. See _Aen._ 6.417 ff., _Virgil's Gnat_ 345-52) 2 His three deformed heads did lay along, along > at full length 3 Curled with thousand adders venomous, 4 And lilled forth his bloody flaming tongue: lilled > lolled 5 At them he began to rear his bristles strong, bristles > hackles 6 And felly gnarr, until day's enemy felly > fiercely gnarr > growl, snarl 7 Did him appease; then down his tail he hung 8 And suffered them to pass quietly: suffered > allowed 9 For she in hell and heaven had power equally. 105.35 There was _Ixion_ turned on a wheele, 2 For daring tempt the Queene of heauen to sin; And _Sisyphus_ an huge round stone did reele 4 Against an hill, ne might from labour lin; There thirstie _Tantalus_ hong by the chin; 6 And _Tityus_ fed a vulture on his maw; _Typh{oe}us_ ioynts were stretched on a gin, 8 _Theseus_ condemned to endlesse slouth by law, And fifty sisters water in leake vessels draw. 1 There was Ixion, turned on a wheel Ixion > (King of the Lapithae in Thessaly; for attempting to seduce Juno he was sent to hell and bound to a perpetually revolving wheel) 2 For daring tempt the queen of heaven to sin; the queen of heaven > (Juno, sister and wife of Jove) 3 And Sisyphus a huge round stone did reel Sisyphus > (In later accounts, a corrupt king of Corinth, the father of Ulysses. For his wickedness he was condemned to push uphill a great marble boulder which constantly rolled down again. See _Virgil's Gnat_ 389-92) reel > roll 4 Against a hill, nor might from labour lin; lin > cease, leave off 5 There thirsty Tantalus hung by the chin;