4 Some headed with sad lead, some with pure gold
lead > (Cupid's lead-tipped and gold-tipped arrows bring unhappy or happy love respectively. See Met. 1.466-71)
5 (Ah man beware, how you those darts behold); 6 A wounded dragon under it did lie, 7 Whose hideous tail its left foot did enfold,
hideous > immense; hideous
8 And with a shaft was shot through either eye, 9 That no man forth might draw, nor no man remedy.
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And vnderneath his feet was written thus,
2 Vnto the Victor of the Gods this bee:
And all the people in that ample hous
4 Did to that image bow their humble knee,
And oft committed fowle Idolatree.
6 That wondrous sight faire Britomart amazed,
Ne seeing could her wonder satisfie,
8 But +euermore+ and more vpon it gazed,
The whiles the passing brightnes her fraile sences dazed.
8 euermore > euer more 1609
1 And underneath its feet was written thus: 2 To the Victor of the Gods this be; 3 And all the people in that ample house 4 Did to that image bow their humble knee,
image > effigy, statue, idol