way,
With dreadfull +poyse+ is from the mayneland rift,
8 And rolling downe, great _Neptune_ doth dismay;
So downe he fell, and like an heaped mountaine lay.

7 poyse > noyse _conj. Morris_

1 So down he fell, and forth his life did breathe,
2 That vanished into smoke and clouds swift;
3 So down he fell, that the earth him underneath

that > [so that]

4 Did groan, as feeble, so great load to lift;

so > [such a]

5 So down he fell, as a huge rocky cliff,
6 Whose false foundation waves have washed away,

false > (Required by the allegory: cf. 104.5:4, 108.23:4)

7 With dreadful poise is from the mainland rived,

poise > weight, gravity

8 And, rolling down, great Neptune does dismay;

Neptune > (See _Rev._ 21.1)

9 So down he fell, and like a heaped mountain lay.

111.55

The knight himselfe euen trembled at his fall,
2 So huge and horrible a masse it seem'd;
And his deare Ladie, that beheld it all,
4 Durst not approch for dread, which she misdeem'd,
But yet at last, when as the direfull feend
6 She saw not stirre, off-shaking vaine affright,
She nigher drew, and saw that ioyous end:
8 Then God she praysd, and thankt her faithfull knight,
That had atchieu'd so great a conquest by his might.

1 The knight himself even trembled at his fall,
2 So huge and horrible a mass it seemed;
3 And his dear lady, that beheld it all,
4 Dared not approach for dread, which she misdeemed,

misdeemed > [had conceived through misjudgement]

5 But yet at last, when the direful fiend

direful > terrible, dreadful

6 She saw not stir, off-shaking vain affright,

off-shaking > shaking off
vain > frail, weak; futile; foolish
affright > terror

7 She nigher drew, and saw that joyous end:
8 Then God she praised, and thanked her faithful knight,
9 That had achieved so great a conquest by his might.

his > his; His (see 201.33:2-3)

CANTO XII

_Faire Vna to the Redcrosse knight
2 betrouthed is with ioy:
Though false Duessa it to barre
4 her false sleights doe imploy._

1 Fair Una to the Redcross Knight
2 betrothed is with joy:
3 Though false Duessa, it to bar,

bar > debar, prevent

4 her false sleights does employ.

sleights > ruses, stratagems

112.1

BEhold I see the hauen nigh at hand,
2 To which I meane my wearie course to bend;
Vere the maine shete, and beare vp w