show > appear, seem
4 And some like ugly urchins, thick and short:
urchins > hedgehogs
5 Cruelly they assailed that fifth fort, 6 Armed with darts of sensual delight, 7 With stings of carnal lust, and strong effort
effort > power
8 Of feeling pleasures, with which day and night 9 Against that same fifth bulwark they continued fight.
fight > [the fight, fighting]
211.14
Thus these twelue troupes with dreadfull puissance
2 Against that Castle restlesse siege did lay,
And euermore their hideous Ordinance
4 Vpon the Bulwarkes cruelly did play,
That now it gan to threaten neare decay:
6 And euermore their wicked Capitaine
Prouoked them the breaches to assay,
8 Somtimes with threats, somtimes with hope of gaine,
Which by the ransack of that peece they should attaine.
1 Thus these twelve troops with dreadful puissance