so > such leaves > pages repeat > reproduce
5 It told, how first Prometheus did create
Prometheus > (Whose name means "Forethought": he stole fire from heaven in a hollow tube, and taught mortals how to use it. In one legend, he is said to have created man out of earth and water, and to have bestowed on him a portion of the characteristics possessed by all the other animals. See Odes I 16.13-16, Met. 1.82)
6 A man, of many parts from beasts derived, 7 And then stole fire from heaven, to animate 8 His work, for which he was by Jove deprived 9 Of life himself, and heartstrings of an eagle rived.
heartstrings > {Tendons or nerves supporting the heart; in citing the heart rather than the liver, Spenser follows Cooper (1565)} of > by rived > torn (perpetually: as part of his punishment, Prometheus was chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, where each day an eagle consumed his liver, which was then restored overnight. The eagle was eventually killed, and Prometheus rescued, by Hercules)
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That man so made, he called Elfe, to weet
2 Quick, the first authour of all Elfin kind:
Who wandring through the world with wearie feet,
4 Did in the gardins of Adonis find
A goodly creature, whom he deemd in mind
6 To be no earthly wight, but either Spright,
Or Angell, th'authour of all woman kind;
8 Therefore a Fay he her according hight,
Of whom all Faeryes spring, and fetch their lignage right.
1 That man so made, he called Elf, to wit 2 Quick, the first author of all Elfin kind:
Quick > Alive (the derivation is the poet's) author > ancestor, forefather
3 Who, wandering through the world with weary feet, 4 Did in the Gardens of Adonis find