Whiles thus he lay in deadly stonishment,
2 Tydings hereof came to his mothers eare;
His mother was the blacke-browd Cymoent,
4 The daughter of great Nereus, which did beare
This warlike sonne vnto an earthly peare,
6 The famous Dumarin; who on a day
Finding the Nymph a sleepe in secret wheare,
8 As he by chaunce did wander that same way,
Was taken with her loue, and by her closely lay.
1 While thus he lay in deadly astonishment,
deadly astonishment > death-like insensibility
2 Tidings hereof came to his mother's ear; 3 His mother was the black-browed Cymodoc{e"},
Cymodoc{e"} > (So named at 411.50:6 ff. The name derives from the Greek kyma, wave. She is one of the nereids, sister of Thetis, the mother of Achilles, whom Cymodoc{e"} comforts in the Iliad 18.39. She also appears, with other sea-deities, at Aen. 5.826)
4 The daughter of great Nereus, who did bear
Nereus > (Son of Pontus and Ge, husband of Doris. He lives at the bottom of the sea, being especially associated with the Aegean; like Proteus, he is said to have the power of prophecy)
5 This warlike son to an earthly peer,
peer > mate; nobleman
6 The famous Dumarin; who on a day