6 He over him did hold his cruel claws, 7 Threatening with greedy grip to do him die
greedy > eager, rapacious die > [to death]
8 And rend in pieces with his ravenous paws,
rend > [tear him]
9 If ever he transgressed the fatal Stygian laws.
Stygian laws > (Laws of the underworld)
207.28
That houses forme within was rude and strong,
2 Like an huge caue, hewne out of rocky clift,
From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong,
4 Embost with massy gold of glorious gift,
And with rich metall loaded euery rift,
6 That heauy ruine they did seeme to threat;
And ouer them Arachne high did lift
8 Her cunning web, and spred her subtile net,
Enwrapped in fowle smoke and clouds more blacke then Iet.
1 That house's form within was rude and strong,
rude > rough, crude, clumsy