5 From off the earth, to take his airy flight. 6 They looked about, but nowhere could espy 7 Tract of his foot: then dead through great affright
Tract > Trace affright > terror
8 They both nigh were, and each bade other fly:
other fly > [the other to flee]
9 Both fled at once, nor ever back returned eye.
at once > immediately; together
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Till that they come vnto a forrest greene,
2 In which they shrowd themselues from causelesse feare;
Yet feare them followes still, where so they beene,
4 Each trembling leafe, and whistling wind they heare,
As ghastly bug +their haire on end does reare+:
6 Yet both doe striue their fearfulnesse to faine.
At last they heard a horne, that shrilled cleare
8 Throughout the wood, that ecchoed againe,
And made the forrest ring, as it would riue in twaine.
5 their haire on end does reare > does vnto them affeare 1590; does greatly them affeare _FE; perhaps the 1590 reading is a mis- print of appeare, with Spenser subsequently forgetting this, or changing his mind, when compiling FE and again when revising the text of 1590 for the 1596 edition (Smith)_
1 Till they come to a forest green, 2 In which they shroud themselves from causeless fear;