mischiefs > wrongs, evil-doing fay > fairy; enchantress [Acrasia; cf. Antony and Cleopatra IV viii 12]
4 Had wrought, and many whelmed in deadly pain,
whelmed > engulfed, buried, covered completely
5 Whereof he craved redress. My sovereign 6 (Whose glory is in gracious deeds, and joys 7 Throughout the world her mercy to maintain) 8 Eftsoons devised redress for such annoys;
Eftsoons > Soon, thereupon annoys > annoyances, vexations, injuries
9 Me, all unfit for so great purpose, she employs.
all > wholly so > [such a]
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Now hath faire Ph{oe}be with her siluer face
2 Thrise seene the shadowes of the neather world,
Sith last I left that honorable place,
4 In which her royall presence is +introld+;
Ne euer shall I rest in house nor hold,
6 Till I that false Acrasia haue wonne;
Of whose fowle deedes, too hideous to be +told,+
8 I witnesse am, and this their wretched sonne,
Whose wofull parents she hath wickedly fordonne.
4 introld > entrold 1590; enrold conj. various editors 7 told, > told 1596