skies > astrological influences
9 When oblique Saturn sat in the House of Agonies.
oblique > {In the oblique ascension or declension; lying obliquely with respect to the celestial equator; also: deviating from right conduct or thought} House of Agonies > (Possibly Pisces, the twelfth and last astrological house, associated with adversity and death. A "house" in astrology is a sign of the zodiac considered as the seat of the greatest influence of a particular planet, each of the planets of the ancients having two such houses, a day house and a night house. Pisces might thus be a house of Saturn)
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Whom Alma hauing shewed to her guestes,
2 Thence brought them to the second roome, whose wals
Were painted faire with memorable gestes,
4 Of famous Wisards, and with picturals
Of Magistrates, of courts, of tribunals,
6 Of commen wealthes, of states, of pollicy,
Of lawes, of iudgements, and of decretals;
8 All artes, all science, all Philosophy,
And all that in the world was aye thought wittily.
1 Whom Alma having showed to her guests, 2 Thence brought them to the second room, whose walls 3 Were painted fair with memorable gests
fair with > expertly with [representations of] gests > deeds, exploits; stories
4 Of famous wizards, and with picturals
picturals > pictures, portraits (this instance quoted by OED)
5 Of magistrates, of courts, of tribunals, 6 Of commonwealths, of states, of policy,