1 The drooping night thus creeps on them fast, 2 And the sad humour loading their eyelids, sad humour > heavy moisture (see line 4) 3 As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast As > [Like a] Morpheus > (The god of dreams: one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep. His name signifies "Fashioner", "Moulder", because he shapes the sleeper's dreams) 4 Sweet slumbering dew, which to sleep them bids. dew > (The dew of sleep. Cf. _PL_ 4.614, _Richard III_ IV i 84, _Julius Caesar_ II i 230) 5 To their lodgings then his guests he rids: rids > dispatches 6 Where, when all drowned in deadly sleep he finds, deadly > death-like 7 He to his study goes, and there amidst 8 His magic books, and arts of sundry kinds, 9 He seeks out mighty charms to trouble sleepy minds. sleepy > sleeping 101.37 Then choosing out few wordes most horrible, 2 (Let none them read) thereof did verses frame, With which and other spelles like terrible, 4 He bad awake blacke _Plutoes_ griesly Dame, And cursed heauen, and spake reprochfull shame 6 Of highest God, the Lord of life and light; A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name 8 Great _Gorgon_, Prince of darknesse and dead night, At which _Cocytus_ quakes, and _Styx_ is put to flight. 1 Then, choosing out few words most horrible few > [a few] 2 (Let none them read), thereof did verses frame, 3 With which, and other spells like terrible, like > similarly 4 He bade awake black Pluto's grisly dame, Pluto > (God of the underworld, brother of Jupiter and Neptune, husband of Proserpine) grisly > horrible, fearsome dame > (Pluto's consort, Proserpine, the daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; she was abducted by Pluto and taken to the lower world) 5 And cursed heaven, and spoke reproachful shame 6 Of highest God, the Lord of life and light; 7 A bold, bad man, that dared to call by name call > invoke, summon 8 Great Gorgon, prince of darkness and dead night, Gorgon > (Demogorgon, a primordial enchanter commanding the underworld (_DGDG_ 1.1): see also 105.22:5, 402.47:7) 9 At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight. Cocytus > ("The stream of wailing": one of the five rivers of hell: the others are Acheron, Phlegethon, Lethe, and Styx) Styx > (The river of hate, which dead souls must cross) 101.38 And forth he cald out of deepe darknesse dred 2 Legions of Sprights, the which like little flyes Fluttring about his euer damned hed, 4 A-waite whereto their seruice he applyes, To aide his friends, or fray his enimies: 6 Of those he chose out two, the falsest twoo, And fittest for to forge true-seeming lyes; 8 The one of them he gaue a message too, The other by him selfe staide other worke to doo. 1 And forth he called out of deep darkness dread 2 Legions of sprites, which, like little flies 3 Fluttering about his ever-damned head, ever > eternally