8 Eftsoons they saw a hideous host arrayed
Eftsoons > Soon, thereupon hideous > immense; odious; hideous host > army
9 Of huge sea-monsters, such as living sense dismayed.
212.23
Most vgly shapes, and horrible aspects,
2 Such as Dame Nature selfe mote feare to see,
Or shame, that euer should so fowle defects
4 From her most cunning hand escaped bee;
All dreadfull pourtraicts of deformitee:
6 Spring-headed Hydraes, and sea-shouldring Whales,
Great whirlpooles, which all fishes make to flee,
8 Bright Scolopendraes, arm'd with siluer scales,
Mighty +Monoceros+, with immeasured tayles.
9 Monoceros > Monoceroses sugg. Jortin, but Smith compares immeasored _with the four-syllabled treasores in "The Visions of Petrarch" 2:6. See also 212.33:4_
1 Most ugly shapes, and horrible aspects,
aspects > appearances; visages, faces
2 Such as Dame Nature herself might fear to see, 3 Or shame, that ever should so foul defects
shame > feel shame so > such