5 Grief, and Despite, and Jealousy, and Scorn
Despite > Rage; Malice (personified, as a fragment of his own disintegrating mind, together with Grief, Jealousy, and Scorn: see Upton (1758))
6 Did all the way him follow hard behind,
hard > closely; fiercely, strenuously; cruelly
7 And he himself himself loathed so forlorn, 8 So shamefully forlorn of womankind:
of > by
9 That, as a snake, still lurked in his wounded mind.
as > like snake > (Traditionally associated with jealousy: see 311.1)
310.56
Still fled he forward, looking backward still,
2 Ne stayd his flight, nor fearefull agony,
Till that he came vnto a rockie hill,
4 Ouer the sea, suspended dreadfully,
That liuing creature it would terrify,
6 To looke adowne, or vpward to the hight:
From thence he threw himselfe dispiteously,
8 All desperate of his fore-damned spright,
That seem'd no helpe for him was left in liuing sight.