ancour's rusty knife,

despite > rage; malice
rusty > blood-stained; dirty; rusty

5 And fretting grief, the enemy of life;

fretting > devouring; gnawing (cf. 106.44:5)

6 All these, and many evils more, haunt Ire,

Ire > [Wrath]

7 The swelling spleen, and frenzy raging rife,

spleen > {Spite; the organ itself, with which anger and spite were
associated}

8 The shaking palsy, and Saint Francis' fire:

Saint Francis' fire > {Erysipelas, a skin disease characterized by a
deep red colour}

9 Such one was Wrath, the last of this ungodly tire.

tire > accoutrement, equipment; ornament, embellishment [of
Lucifera] _or:_ ?team (from the Common Romanic _tirare_, to draw,
pull)

104.36

And after all, vpon the wagon beame
2 Rode +_Sathan_+, with a smarting whip in hand,
With which he forward lasht the laesie teme,
4 So oft as _Slowth_ still in the mire did stand.
Huge routs of people did about them band,
6 Showting for ioy, and still before their way
A foggy mist had couered all the land;
8 And vnderneath their feet, all scattered lay
Dead sculs and bones of men, whose life had gone astray.

2 _Sathan_ > _Satan 1609_

1 And, after all, upon the wagon beam
2 Rode Satan, with a smarting whip in hand,
3 With which he forward lashed the lazy team,
4 So oft as Sloth still in the mire did stand.

still > motionless; yet

5 Huge routs of people did about them band,

routs > {Crowds, clamorous or riotous assemblages}

6 Shouting for joy; and still before their way
7 A foggy mist had covered all the land;

mist > (Symbol of deception: cf. 102.38:5, 212.34:5)

8 And, underneath their feet, all scattered lay
9 Dead skulls and bones of men whose life had gone astray.

104.37

So forth they marchen in this goodly sort,
2 To take the solace of the open aire,
And in fresh flowring fields themselues to sport;
4 Emongst the rest rode that false Lady faire,
The fowle _Duessa_, next vnto the chaire
6 Of proud +_Lucifera_+, as one of the traine:
But that good knight would not so nigh repaire,
8 Him selfe estraunging from their ioyaunce vaine,
Whose fellowship seemd far vnfit for warlike swaine.

6 _Lucifera_ > _Lucifer_' _1590_

1 So forth they march in this goodly sort,

goodly > fine; courteous
sort > company, band

2 To take the solace of the open air,

solace > pleasure, comfort (implying reli