5 "Such-and-such evil God on Guyon rear,
on Guyon rear > [rear up against Guyon]
6 And worse and worse, young orphan, be your pain, 7 If I or you due vengeance do forbear, 8 Till guilty blood her guerdon do obtain!"
guerdon > recompense
9 So, shedding many tears, they closed the earth again.
CANTO II
Babes bloudie hands may not be clensd,
2 the face of golden Meane.
Her sisters two Extremities:
4 striue her to banish cleane.
1 Babe's bloody hands may not be cleansed: 2 the face of golden Mean.
face > {External appearance; face of a place or building (e.g. a castle), esp. that comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighbouring bastions} golden > (See 201.58:1, 202.11:6; 202.15:7, Odes 2.10:5) Mean > Medina (named at 202.14:4)
3 Her sisters, two extremities,