7 And hung adown his head, as he did dream:

adown > down as > [as though]

8 For privy love his breast empierced had,

privy > secret breast > heart empierced > transfixed

9 Ne aught but dear Bisaltis ay could make him glad.

Ne aught > Naught, no one at all Bisaltis > (Or Theophane, daughter of Bisaltes, changed by Neptune into a ewe; he changed himself into a ram. See Met. 6.117 and Hyginus, Fabulae 188) ay > ever

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He loued eke Iphimedia deare,
2 And Aeolus faire daughter Arne +hight,+
For whom he turnd him selfe into a Steare,
4 And fed on fodder, to beguile her sight.
Also to win Deucalions daughter bright,
6 +He+ turnd him selfe into a Dolphin fayre;
And like a winged horse he tooke his flight,
8 To +snaky+-locke Medusa to repayre,
On whom he got faire Pegasus, that flitteth in the ayre.

2 hight, > hight. 1596 6 He > Her 1596, 1609 8 snaky > snaly 1596

1 He loved eke Iphimedia dear,