His flaggy wings when forth he did display, 2 Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd Is gathered full, and worketh speedy way: 4 And eke the pennes, that did his pineons +bynd,+ Were like mayne-yardes, with flying canuas lynd, 6 With which whenas him list the ayre to beat, And there by force vnwonted passage find, 8 The cloudes before him fled for terrour great, And all the heauens stood still amazed with his threat. 4 bynd, > bynd _1596_ 1 His flaggy wings, when forth he did display, flaggy > drooping display > spread [them]; _or:_ exhibit himself ostentatiously (cf. _King Lear_ II iv 40) 2 Were like two sails, in which the hollow wind 3 Is gathered full, and works speedy way: 4 And eke the pens, that did his pinions bind, eke > also pens > feathers (here = wing-coverts) pinions > flight-feathers (primaries and secondaries) 5 Were like main-yards, with flying canvas lined, 6 With which when he list the air to beat, list > chose 7 And there by force unwonted passage find, unwonted > unaccustomed [the air being unaccustomed to such treatment] 8 The clouds before him fled for terror great, 9 And all the heavens stood still, amazed with his threat. amazed with > overwhelmed by, confounded by threat > thrust; menace, threat 111.11 His huge long tayle wound vp in hundred foldes, 2 Does ouerspred his long bras-scaly backe, Whose wreathed boughts when euer he vnfoldes, 4 And thicke entangled knots adown does +slacke.+ Bespotted +as+ with shields of red and blacke, 6 It sweepeth all the land behind him farre, And of three furlongs does but litle lacke; 8 And at the point two stings in-fixed arre, Both deadly sharpe, that sharpest steele exceeden farre. 4 slacke. > slack. _1590;_ slack; _1609_ 5 as > all _1590 etc.: FE_ 1 His huge long tail, wound up in hundred folds, hundred > [a hundred, a large number] 2 Does overspread his long brass-scaly back, 3 Whose wreathed boughts whenever he unfolds, boughts > coils 4 And thick entangled knots adown does slack, adown > down 5 Bespotted as with shields of red and black, Bespotted > {Spotted all over; the prefix is intensive} 6 It sweeps all the land behind him far, 7 And of three furlongs does but little lack; furlong > {An eighth of a mile, 220 yards, about 201 metres} 8 And at the point two stings infixed are, 9 Both deadly sharp, that sharpest steel exceed far. sharpest steel exceed > [exceed sharpest steel in sharpness] 111.12