avoured witch:
bears > carries; takes as a companion (cf. 102.45:9)
well-favoured > beautiful
3 Through murksome air her ready way she makes.
murksome > dark, obscure (_OED_ cites this as first occurrence)
ready > {Lying directly before one; contrasted with the upward path
at 110.33:9}
4 Her twofold team, of which two black as pitch,
5 And two were brown, yet each to each unlike,
brown > [merely] dusky, dark
6 Did softly swim away, nor ever stamp,
7 Unless she chanced their stubborn mouths to twitch;
twitch > jerk at; pinch, nip, pain
8 Then, foaming tar, their bridles they would champ,
9 And, trampling the fine element, would fiercely ramp.
fine element > [air]
ramp > rear up
105.29
So well they sped, that they be come at length
2 Vnto the place, whereas the Paynim lay,
Deuoid of outward sense, and natiue strength,
4 Couerd with charmed cloud from vew of day,
And sight of men, since his late luckelesse fray.
6 His cruell wounds with cruddy bloud congealed,
They binden vp so wisely, as they may,
8 And handle softly, till they can be healed:
So lay him in her charet, close in night concealed.
1 So well they sped, that they be come at length
2 To the place where the paynim lay,
paynim > pagan, heathen
3 Devoid of outward sense and native strength,
outward sense > [faculty of perceiving the outside world; he is
unconscious]
native > innate, natural
4 Covered with charmed cloud from view of day
5 And sight of men, since his late luckless fray.
6 His cruel wounds, with cruddy blood congealed,
cruddy > clotted
7 They bind up so wisely as they may,
wisely > skilfully
8 And handle softly, till they can be healed:
9 So lay him in her chariot, close in night concealed.
close > closely; secretly
105.30
And all the while she stood vpon the ground,
2 The wakefull dogs did neuer cease to bay,
As giuing warning of th'vnwonted sound,
4 With which her yron wheeles did them affray,
And her darke griesly looke them much dismay;
6 The messenger of death, the ghastly Owle
With drearie shriekes did also her bewray;
8 And hungry Wolues continually did howle,
At her abhorred face, so filthy and so fowle.
1 And all the while she stood upon the ground,
2 The wakeful dogs did never cease to bay,
wakeful dogs > (See _Aen._ 6.257)
3 As giving warning of the unwo
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