Pluto > (God of the underworld, brother of Jupiter and Neptune, husband of Proserpine) grisly > horrible, fearsome dame > (Pluto's consort, Proserpine, the daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; she was abducted by Pluto and taken to the lower world)
5 And cursed heaven, and spoke reproachful shame 6 Of highest God, the Lord of life and light; 7 A bold, bad man, that dared to call by name
call > invoke, summon
8 Great Gorgon, prince of darkness and dead night,
Gorgon > (Demogorgon, a primordial enchanter commanding the underworld (DGDG 1.1): see also 105.22:5, 402.47:7)
9 At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight.
Cocytus > ("The stream of wailing": one of the five rivers of hell: the others are Acheron, Phlegethon, Lethe, and Styx) Styx > (The river of hate, which dead souls must cross)
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And forth he cald out of deepe darknesse dred
2 Legions of Sprights, the which like little flyes
Fluttring about his euer damned hed,
4 A-waite whereto their seruice he applyes,
To aide his friends, or fray his enimies:
6 Of those he chose out two, the falsest twoo,
And fittest for to forge true-seeming lyes;
8 The one of them he gaue a message too,
The other by him selfe staide other worke to doo.
1 And forth he called out of deep darkness dread 2 Legions of sprites, which, like little flies 3 Fluttering about his ever-damned head,