s Gnat_ 345-52)

2 His three deformed heads did lay along,

along > at full length

3 Curled with thousand adders venomous,
4 And lilled forth his bloody flaming tongue:

lilled > lolled

5 At them he began to rear his bristles strong,

bristles > hackles

6 And felly gnarr, until day's enemy

felly > fiercely
gnarr > growl, snarl

7 Did him appease; then down his tail he hung
8 And suffered them to pass quietly:

suffered > allowed

9 For she in hell and heaven had power equally.

105.35

There was _Ixion_ turned on a wheele,
2 For daring tempt the Queene of heauen to sin;
And _Sisyphus_ an huge round stone did reele
4 Against an hill, ne might from labour lin;
There thirstie _Tantalus_ hong by the chin;
6 And _Tityus_ fed a vulture on his maw;
_Typh{oe}us_ ioynts were stretched on a gin,
8 _Theseus_ condemned to endlesse slouth by law,
And fifty sisters water in leake vessels draw.

1 There was Ixion, turned on a wheel

Ixion > (King of the Lapithae in Thessaly; for attempting to seduce
Juno he was sent to hell and bound to a perpetually revolving
wheel)

2 For daring tempt the queen of heaven to sin;

the queen of heaven > (Juno, sister and wife of Jove)

3 And Sisyphus a huge round stone did reel

Sisyphus > (In later accounts, a corrupt king of Corinth, the father
of Ulysses. For his wickedness he was condemned to push uphill a
great marble boulder which constantly rolled down again. See
_Virgil's Gnat_ 389-92)
reel > roll

4 Against a hill, nor might from labour lin;

lin > cease, leave off

5 There thirsty Tantalus hung by the chin;

Tantalus > (An evil king, variously said to be of Lydia, Phrygia,
Argos, or Corinth. According to the account preferred, his fatal
crime was (1) to have divulged secrets entrusted to him by
Jupiter, (2) to have offered his son Pelops, in cooked pieces, as
food for the gods, (3) to have stolen ambrosia and nectar from
the table of the gods, or (4) to have feloniously received a
golden dog, the property of the goddess Rhea. He was punished by
being placed within reach of food and water which drew back
whenever he tried to eat or drink; moreover, a giant rock was
suspended over his head, perpetually threatening to fall and
crush him. See _Odyssey_ 11.582-92, _Virgil's Gnat_ 385-8)

6 And Tityus fed a vulture on his maw;

Tityus > (A giant who attempted to rape the goddes