8 Three nights in one, they say, that for her sake 9 He then did put, her pleasures longer to partake.
311.34
Twise was he seene in soaring Eagles shape,
2 And with wide wings to beat the buxome ayre,
Once, when he with Asterie did scape,
4 Againe, when as the Troiane boy so faire
He snatcht from Ida hill, and with him bare:
6 Wondrous delight it was, there to behould,
How the rude Shepheards after him did stare,
8 Trembling through feare, least down he fallen +should+
And often to him calling, to take surer hould.
8 should > should, 1609
1 Twice was he seen in soaring eagle's shape, 2 And with wide wings to beat the buxom air:
buxom > yielding
3 Once, when he with Asteria did scape;
Asteria > (Or Asterie, daughter of Phoebe and the Titan Coeus. In order to escape Jupiter's advances she transformed herself into a quail and threw herself down from heaven; whereupon he trans- formed himself into an eagle. See Met. 6.108; Hesiod, Theogony 404-12; Hyginus, Fabulae 53) scape > escape
4 Again, when the Trojan boy so fair
the Trojan boy > (Ganymede, son of Tros and Callirrho{e"}, most beautiful of all mortals; the details of his abduction vary in different accounts. Spenser follows Met. 10.155 ff., DGDG 9.13)