r locks;
6 And vnder neath him his courageous steed,
The fierce _Spumador_ trode them downe like docks,
8 The fierce _Spumador_ borne of heauenly seed:
Such as _Laomedon_ of _Ph{oe}bus_ race did breed.

1 Upon his shield their heaped hail he bore,
2 And with his sword dispersed the rascal flocks,
3 Which fled asunder, and him fell before,
4 As withered leaves drop from their dried stocks

stocks > stems

5 When the wroth western wind does reave their locks;

reave > ravage; carry off
locks > [locks of hair]

6 And underneath him his courageous steed,
7 The fierce Spumador, trod them down like docks,

Spumador > "Foaming One" (Latin _spumo_, to foam or froth; cf.
_Aen._ 6.881)
docks > {Coarse, floppy weeds of rough ground, _Rumex_ spp.}

8 The fierce Spumador, born of heavenly seed:

seed > offspring

9 Such as Laomedon of Phoebus' race did breed.

Laomedon > (King of Troy and, in some accounts, the father of
Ganymede, the beautiful youth carried off by Zeus (Jupiter). In
compensation Jupiter gave Laomedon a pair of divine horses, such
as those which draw Phoebus's fiery chariot across the sky)
Phoebus > (Who, incidentally, having displeased Jupiter, was
sentenced for a time to watch Laomedon's flocks on Mount Ida)

211.20

Which suddeine horrour and confused cry,
2 When as their Captaine heard, in haste he yode,
The cause to weet, and fault to remedy;
4 Vpon a Tygre swift and fierce he rode,
That as the winde ran vnderneath his lode,
6 Whiles his long legs nigh raught vnto the ground;
Full large he was of limbe, and shoulders brode,
8 But of such subtile substance and vnsound,
That like a ghost he seem'd, whose graue-clothes were vnbound.

1 Which sudden horror and confused cry,
2 When their captain heard, in haste he yode

yode > went

3 The cause to weet, and fault to remedy;

weet > find out

4 Upon a tiger swift and fierce he rode,
5 That as the wind ran underneath his load,
6 While his long legs nigh raught to the ground;

raught > reached

7 Full large he was of limb, and shoulders broad,

Full > Very, exceedingly

8 But of such subtile substance and unsound,

subtile > rarefied, thin; subtle

9 That like a ghost he seemed, whose grave-clothes were unbound.

211.21

And in his hand a bended bow was seene,
2 And many arrowes vnder his right side,
All deadly daungerou