4 Which stunk so vilely, that it forced him slack 5 His grasping hold, and from her turn him back: 6 Her vomit full of books and papers was, 7 With loathly frogs and toads, which eyes did lack, loathly > loathsome, repulsive, hateful 8 And creeping sought way in the weedy grass: 9 Her filthy parbreak all the place defiled has. parbreak > vomit 101.21 As when old father _Nilus_ gins to swell 2 With timely pride aboue the _Aegyptian_ vale, His fattie waues do fertile slime outwell, 4 And ouerflow each plaine and lowly dale: But when his later +spring+ gins to auale, 6 Huge heapes of mudd he leaues, wherein there breed Ten thousand kindes of creatures, partly male 8 And partly female of his fruitfull seed; Such vgly monstrous shapes elswhere may no man reed. 5 spring > ebbe _1590 etc.: FE_ 1 As when old Father Nile begins to swell 2 With timely pride above the Egyptian vale; timely > seasonal pride > {The state of being in flood; stateliness, splendour; tumescence, sexual excitement} 3 His fatty waves do fertile slime outwell, fatty > oleaginous, greasy; _hence:_ mud-laden, rich outwell > pour forth 4 And overflow each plain and lowly dale: 5 But when his latter spring begins to avale, latter > last, final spring > tide avale > sink down, flow down 6 Huge heaps of mud he leaves, wherein there breed 7 Ten thousand kinds of creatures, partly male partly > some 8 And partly female, of his fruitful seed; seed > semen (cf. 304.41:6); progeny 9 Such ugly monstrous shapes elsewhere may no man read. read > see, observe (SUS) 101.22 The same so sore annoyed has the knight, 2 That welnigh choked with the deadly stinke, His forces faile, ne can no longer fight. 4 Whose corage when the feend perceiu'd to shrinke, She poured forth out of her hellish sinke 6 Her fruitfull cursed spawne of serpents small, Deformed monsters, fowle, and black as inke, 8 Which swarming all about his legs did crall, And him encombred sore, but could not hurt at all. 1 The same so sore annoyed has the knight, annoyed > afflicted, discommoded 2 That, well-nigh choked with the deadly stink, 3 His forces fail, nor can no longer fight: 4 Whose courage when the fiend perceived to shrink, 5 She poured forth out of her hellish sink sink > {Intestines, organs of excretion; rectum} 6 Her fruitful cursed spawn of serpents small: 7 Deformed monsters, foul, and black as ink, 8 Which swarming all about his legs did crawl, 9 And him encumbered sore, but could not hurt at all. 101.23