bend > apply, direct batteries > {Assaults, assaults with many blows; artillery}
211.11
Likewise that same third Fort, that is the Smell
2 Of that third troupe was cruelly assayd:
Whose hideous shapes were like to feends of hell,
4 Some like to hounds, some like to +Apes, dismayd+,
Some like to Puttockes, all in plumes arayd:
6 All shap't according their conditions,
For by those vgly formes weren pourtrayd,
8 Foolish delights and fond abusions,
Which do that sence besiege with light illusions.
4 Apes, dismayd > Apes mismayd _(i.e. "mis-made") conj. Jortin. Church suggests that dismayd = "dismayed" and that _Some like to hounds, some like to Apes, _should be read parenthetically, so that dismayd, or mismayd, refers to the feends of hell; cf. 303.50:3_
1 Likewise that same third fort (that is, the smell) 2 Of that third troop was cruelly assayed:
Of > By assayed > assaulted; put to the test; attempted
3 Whose hideous shapes were like to fiends of hell,
were like to > resembled
4 Some like to hounds, some like to apes dismade,
dismade > ?mismade (see Textual Appendix)