90, 1609_
4 thrust > trust _1596_

1 The messenger approaching to him spoke,
2 But his waste words returned to him in vain:

waste > futile

3 So sound he slept, that naught might him awake.
4 Then rudely he him thrust, and pushed with pain,

rudely > roughly

5 Whereat he began to stretch: but he again
6 Shook him so hard, that forced him to speak.

pain > pains, effort

7 As one then in a dream, whose drier brain

drier > {Too-dry: subject to uneasy dreams}
that > [that it]

8 Is tossed with troubled sights and fancies weak,
9 He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence break.

all > altogether, entirely

101.43

The Sprite then gan more boldly him to wake,
2 And threatned vnto him the dreaded name
Of _Hecate_: whereat he gan to quake,
4 And lifting vp his lumpish head, with blame
Halfe angry asked him, for what he came.
6 Hither (quoth he) me _Archimago_ sent,
He that the stubborne Sprites can wisely tame,
8 He bids thee to him send for his intent
A fit false dreame, that can delude the sleepers sent.

1 The sprite then began more boldly him to wake,
2 And threatened to him the dreaded name
3 Of Hecate: whereat he began to quake,

Hecate > (Three-headed goddess of the underworld, companion of and
attendant upon Proserpine, associated with witchcraft and dreams;
sometimes identified with Proserpine herself. See _Myth._ 3.15,
_Macbeth_ II i 52, III v, IV i 39-43, _King Lear_ I i 109)
whereat > at which

4 And, lifting up his lumpish head, with blame

lumpish > heavy; sluggish
blame > reproach

5 Half angry asked him for what he came.
6 "Hither" quoth he, "me Archimago sent,

Archimago > "Arch Mage", "Arch Magician"

7 He that the stubborn sprites can wisely tame,

can > can; did
wisely > by magic arts

8 He bids you to him send for his intent

intent > purpose, intention

9 A fit false dream, that can delude the sleeper's assent."

assent > opinion, concurrence of the will; _hence:_ will

101.44

The God obayde, and calling forth straight way
2 A diuerse dreame out of his prison darke,
Deliuered it to him, and downe did lay
4 His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke,
Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
6 He backe returning by the Yuorie dore,
Remounted vp as light as chearefull Larke,
8 And on his litle winges the dreame he bore