ariot, fild with rusty blood,
fild > defiled; _or:_ filled (cf. 107.9:9, etc.)
rusty > rust-coloured; morally foul, corrupted
3 And down to Pluto's house are come belive:
belive > forthwith, without delay
4 Which passing through, on every side them stood
them > [of them]
5 The trembling ghosts with sad amazed mood,
sad > grave
mood > mind, feeling, spirit
6 Chattering their iron teeth, and staring wide
7 With stony eyes; and all the hellish brood
stony > rigid, fixed
brood > race
8 Of fiends infernal flocked on every side,
9 To gaze on earthly wight, that with the Night dared ride.
wight > creature, person, woman
105.33
They pas the bitter waues of _Acheron_,
2 Where many soules sit wailing woefully,
And come to fiery flood of _Phlegeton_,
4 Whereas the damned ghosts in torments fry,
And with sharp shrilling shriekes doe bootlesse cry,
6 Cursing high _Ioue_, the which them thither sent.
The house of endlesse paine is built thereby,
8 In which ten thousand sorts of punishment
The cursed creatures doe eternally torment.
1 They pass the bitter waves of Acheron,
Acheron > (The "Stream of Woe": one of the five rivers of hell.
The others are Cocytus, Phlegethon, Lethe, and Styx)
2 Where many souls sit wailing woefully,
3 And come to fiery flood of Phlegethon,
Phlegethon > (The "Stream of Fire": one of the five rivers of hell,
through which fire flows instead of water (see _Aen._ 6.551))
4 Where the damned ghosts in torments fry,
5 And with sharp shrilling shrieks do bootless cry,
bootless > hopelessly, without remedy
6 Cursing high Jove, who them thither sent.
7 The house of endless pain is built thereby,
thereby > there; next to it [Phlegethon]
8 In which ten thousand sorts of punishment
9 The cursed creatures do eternally torment.
105.34
Before the threshold dreadfull _Cerberus_
2 His three deformed heads did lay along,
Curled with thousand adders venemous,
4 And lilled forth his bloudie flaming tong:
At them he gan to reare his bristles strong,
6 And felly gnarre, vntill dayes enemy
Did him appease; then downe his taile he hong
8 And suffered them to passen quietly:
For she in hell and heauen had power equally.
1 Before the threshold dreadful Cerberus
Cerberus > (The three-headed hound guarding the gates of hell. See
_Aen._ 6.417 ff., _Virgil'
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