purple robe > (Traditionally worn by emperors and kings: Tyrian purple was a dye obtained in the eastern Mediterranean from the whelks Murex trunculus and M. brandaris and processed at the Phoenician city of Tyre, whence it was sold at high price to the Romans. "Purple" also = "blood-red" (cf. e.g. 206.29:9), thus adding more meaning to the phrase)
8 Castles surprised, great cities sacked and burnt:
surprised > {Captured using surprise tactics}
9 So make you kings, and gain wrongful government.
So > Thus, in this manner
207.14
Long were to tell the troublous stormes, that tosse
2 The priuate state, and make the life vnsweet:
Who swelling sayles in Caspian sea doth crosse,
4 And in frayle wood on Adrian gulfe doth fleet,
Doth not, I weene, so many euils meet.
6 Then Mammon wexing wroth, And why then, said,
Are mortall men so fond and vndiscreet,
8 So euill thing to seeke vnto their ayd,
And hauing not complaine, and hauing it vpbraid?
1 "Long were to tell the troublous storms that toss
Long were > [It would take a long time] tell > describe
2 The private state, and make the life unsweet: