Abide > Endure; await the issue of

3 And, to all that live in high degree,

degree > social station

4 Example be of mind intemperate, 5 To teach them how to use their present state." 6 Then began the cursed wretch aloud to cry, 7 Accusing highest Jove and gods ingrate,

ingrate > unfriendly; unpleasant

8 And eke blaspheming heaven bitterly,

eke > also

9 As author of injustice, there to let him die.

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He lookt a little further, and espyde
2 Another wretch, whose carkasse deepe was drent
Within the riuer, which the same did hyde:
4 But both his hands most filthy feculent,
Aboue the water were on high extent,
6 And faynd to wash themselues incessantly;
Yet nothing cleaner were for such intent,
8 But rather fowler seemed to the eye;
So lost his labour vaine and idle industry.