9 At last them driven has to this despairful drift.
drift > {The condition of being driven}
212.9
The Palmer seeing them in safetie past,
2 Thus said; +behold+ th'ensamples in our sights,
Of lustfull luxurie and thriftlesse wast:
4 What now is left of miserable wights,
Which spent their looser daies in lewd delights,
6 But shame and sad reproch, here to be red,
By these rent reliques, speaking their ill plights?
8 Let all that liue, hereby be counselled,
To shunne Rocke of Reproch, and it as death to dred.
2 behold > Behold 1609
1 The palmer, seeing them in safety past,
them > [himself, Guyon, and the ferryman]
2 Thus said: "Behold the examples in our sight 3 Of lustful luxury and thriftless waste:
luxury > surfeit, excess; dissipation thriftless > improvident
4 What now is left of miserable wights