roots dry > [dry roots]
9 For in themselves eternal moisture they imply.
imply > enfold; conceal; hence: contain
306.35
Infinite shapes of creatures there are bred,
2 And vncouth formes, which none yet euer knew,
And euery sort is in a sundry bed
4 Set by it selfe, and ranckt in comely rew:
Some fit for reasonable soules t'indew,
6 Some made for beasts, some made for birds to weare,
And all the fruitfull spawne of fishes hew
8 In endlesse rancks along enraunged were,
That seem'd the Ocean could not containe them there.
1 Infinite shapes of creatures there are bred, 2 And uncouth forms, which none yet ever knew,
uncouth > strange, bizarre; unseemly
3 And every sort is in a sundry bed
sundry > separate, distinct
4 Set by itself, and ranked in comely rew: