dismay > overcome; defeat
8 Unworthy wretch to tread upon the ground, 9 For whom so fair a lady feels so sore a wound."
311.12
There an huge heape of +singults+ did oppresse
2 His strugling soule, and swelling throbs empeach
His foltring toung with pangs of drerinesse,
4 Choking the remnant of his plaintife speach,
As if his dayes were come to their last reach.
6 Which when she heard, and saw the ghastly fit,
Threatning into his life to make a breach,
8 Both with great ruth and terrour she was smit,
Fearing least from her cage the wearie soule would flit.
1 singults > singulfes _1590, 1596; cf. 506.13:9, CC 168, TM 232. In the last two instances, the spelling error was corrected in the 1611 edition_
1 There a huge heap of singults did oppress
singults > sobs
2 His struggling soul, and swelling throbs impeach
throbs > quiverings; hence: tremors impeach > impede
3 His faltering tongue with pangs of dreariness,