6 Which long has waited by the Stygian strand.
Stygian > {Of the River Styx, one of the five rivers of hell; the river across which dead souls must pass. See Aen. 6.312 ff.} strand > shore
7 That when old Glauce saw, for fear lest blame
blame > blame; [a] charge, accusation
8 Of her miscarriage should in her be found,
miscarriage > mismanagement [of her ward]
9 She wist not how to amend, nor how it to withstand.
wist > knew
CANTO III
Merlin bewrayes to Britomart,
2 the state of +Artegall+.
And shewes the famous Progeny
4 which from them springen shall.