7 How to take life from that dead-living swain,
swain > youth, young man; with further connotations, as: attendant, serf (of the hags); lover (of the lame hag)
8 Whom still he marked freshly to arise
still > continually, ever marked > observed
9 From the earth, and from her womb new spirits to reprise.
reprise > take anew (SUFQ)
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He then remembred well, that had bene sayd,
2 How th'Earth his mother was, and first him bore;
She eke so often, as his life decayd,
4 Did life with vsury to him restore,
And raysd him vp much stronger then before,
6 So soone as he vnto her wombe did fall;
Therefore to ground he would him cast no more,
8 Ne him commit to graue terrestriall,
But beare him farre from hope of succour vsuall.
1 He then remembered well, that had been said,
that had been said > (A reference to the slaying of Antaeus by Hercules. Antaeus was a huge giant, the son of Neptune and Earth, and was invincible as long as he remained in contact with his mother element. In order to crush and kill him, Hercules had to lift him into the air first)