That > [In that] fast > firm, stable, firmly fixed affronted > defied, confronted (with further connotations of the Latin frons, in at least two senses: (1) "forehead" (cf. 102.16:3), and (2) "front line", "military vanguard")
8 And their devouring covetise restrained,
covetise > avarice
9 Thereat she sighed deep, and after thus complained:
Thereat > Thereupon (redundant in view of "Tho" in line 4)
304.8
Huge sea of sorrow, and tempestuous griefe,
2 Wherein my feeble barke is tossed long,
Far from the hoped hauen of reliefe,
4 +Why+ do thy cruell billowes beat so strong,
And thy moyst mountaines each on others throng,
6 Threatning to swallow vp my fearefull life?
O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong
8 At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife,
Which in +these+ troubled bowels raignes, and rageth rife.
4 Why > Who 1596, 1609 9 these > thy 1590
1 "Huge sea of sorrow and tempestuous grief, 2 Wherein my feeble bark is tossed long,
bark > vessel