9 And to her feet betook her doubtful sickerness.
betook > entrusted sickerness > security
307.26
Not halfe so fast the wicked Myrrha fled
2 From dread of her reuenging fathers hond:
Nor halfe so fast to saue her maidenhed,
4 Fled fearefull Daphne on th'AEg{ae}an strond,
As Florimell fled from that Monster yond,
6 To reach the sea, ere she of him were raught:
For in the sea to drowne her selfe she fond,
8 Rather then of the tyrant to be caught:
Thereto feare gaue her wings, and neede her courage taught.
1 Not half so fast the wicked Myrrha fled
Myrrha > (Whose incestuous desire for her own father led to her transformation into a tree: see Met. 10.312 ff.)
2 From dread of her revenging father's hand: 3 Nor half so fast, to save her maidenhead, 4 Fled fearful Daphne on the Aegean strand,
Aegean > (Daphne was the daughter of the river-god Peneus, in
Thessaly, the largest division of Greece, which is bounded on the
east by the Aegean Sea)
strand > shore
5 As Florimell fled from that monster yond,
yond > mad, furious; also: yonder