9 But laboured long in that deep ford with vain disease.
vain > futile disease > "dis-ease", distress, torment
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And still the foster with his long bore-speare
2 Him kept from landing at his wished will;
Anone one sent out of the thicket neare
4 A cruell shaft, headed with deadly ill,
And fethered with an vnlucky quill;
6 The wicked steele stayd not, till it did light
In his left thigh, and deepely did it thrill:
8 Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight,
But more that with his foes he could not come to fight.
1 And still the foster with his long boar-spear
still > continually, ever
2 Him kept from landing at his wished will; 3 Anon one sent out of the thicket near
Anon > Soon (catachr.)
4 A cruel shaft, headed with deadly ill,
shaft > arrow ill > evil; hence: poison