6 With its dull vapour all that desert has,
dull > obscuring, gloomy; sluggish (cf. 102.38:5, 104.36:7) desert > wilderness, lonely place has > (Modifying "ouerspred" in the previous line)
7 And heaven's cheerful face enveloped, 8 That all things one, and one as nothing was,
That > [So that] one > [were one]
9 And this great universe seemed one confused mass.
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Thereat they greatly were dismayd, ne wist
2 How to direct their way in darkenesse wide,
But feard to wander in that wastfull mist,
4 For tombling into mischiefe vnespide.
Worse is the daunger hidden, then descride.
6 Suddeinly an innumerable flight
Of harmefull fowles about them fluttering, cride,
8 And with their wicked wings them oft did smight,
And sore annoyed, groping in that griesly night.
1 Thereat they greatly were dismayed, nor wist
Thereat > Thereupon; as a result of that wist > knew
2 How to direct their way in darkness wide, 3 But feared to wander in that wasteful mist,