4 Therein a hundred ranges were pight,
pight > placed
5 And hundred furnaces all burning bright; 6 By every furnace many fiends did bide,
bide > remain, await; hence: stand
7 Deformed creatures, horrible in sight, 8 And every fiend his busy pains applied,
busy > careful; solicitous pains > efforts, labours
9 To melt the golden metal, ready to be tried.
tried > refined, purified
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One with great bellowes gathered filling aire,
2 And with forst wind the fewell did inflame;
Another did the dying bronds repaire
4 With +yron+ toungs, and sprinckled oft the same
With liquid waues, fiers Vulcans rage to tame,
6 Who maistring them, renewd his former heat;
Some scumd the drosse, that from the metall came;
8 Some stird the molten owre with ladles great;
And euery one did swincke, and euery one did sweat.