7 Now like a lion, hunting after spoil, 8 Now like a hag, now like a falcon flit:
hag > (See Textual Appendix) flit > fleet, swift
9 All which in that fair arras was most lively writ.
arras > tapestry lively > vividly, convincingly writ > depicted; hence: woven
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Next vnto him was Neptune pictured,
2 In his diuine resemblance wondrous lyke:
His face was rugged, and his hoarie hed
4 Dropped with brackish deaw; his three-forkt Pyke
He stearnly shooke, and therewith fierce did stryke
6 The raging billowes, that on euery syde
They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke,
8 That his swift charet might haue passage wyde,
Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde.
1 Next to him was Neptune pictured,
Next to > Immediately after
2 In his divine resemblance wondrous like:
like > lifelike