embodied > {Consisting of human bodies; it is the family tree whose scion will be Elizabeth} lin > cease, desist (see 210.2:5)
4 Till they to heaven's height forth stretched be. 5 For from your womb a famous progeny 6 Shall spring, out of the ancient Trojan blood,
Trojan > (See 210.9:6 ff., 309.38 ff.)
7 Which shall revive the sleeping memory 8 Of those same antique peers, the heavens' brood,
antique > ancient peers > nobles brood > offspring; race
9 Which Greek and Asian rivers stained with their blood.
303.23
Renowmed kings, and sacred Emperours,
2 Thy fruitfull Ofspring, shall from thee descend;
Braue Captaines, and most mighty warriours,
4 That shall their conquests through all lands extend,
And their decayed kingdomes shall amend:
6 The feeble Britons, broken with long warre,
They shall vpreare, and mightily defend
8 Against their forrein foe, that comes from farre,
Till vniuersall peace compound all ciuill iarre.
1 "Renowned kings, and sacred emperors,
sacred > {Commonly used (-1590) as an epithet of royalty; also, here, specifically because Britomart's lineage can be traced back to Aeneas, whose father, Anchises, was a mortal, and whose mother, Venus, was a goddess}