omit

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

As gentle Shepheard in sweete euen-tide,
2 When ruddy _Ph{oe}bus_ gins to welke in west,
High on an hill, his flocke to vewe