9 The utmost room, abounding with all precious store.
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For round about, the wals yclothed were
2 With goodly arras of great maiesty,
Wouen with gold and silke so close and nere,
4 That the rich metall lurked priuily,
As faining to be hid from enuious eye;
6 Yet here, and there, and euery where vnwares
It shewd it selfe, and shone vnwillingly;
8 +Like+ a discolourd Snake, whose hidden snares
Through the greene gras his long bright burnisht backe declares.
8 Like > Like to 1590
1 For round about the walls clothed were 2 With goodly arras of great majesty,
goodly > [a] beautiful; beautiful arras > tapestry; tapestries (named after the town in Pas-de-Calais, France, famous for its rich tapestries, which were often made in the form of wall-hangings) majesty > magnificence
3 Woven with gold and silk so close and near
near > closely, tightly; or: finely (because it had to be held at the near-point of vision in order to be stitched)
4 That the rich metal lurked privily,
privily > inwardly; secretly