9 And full of Argus eyes their tails dispread wide.
Argus > (Argus Panoptes, watchman with a hundred eyes, set by Juno to watch Io and killed by Mercury; Juno placed his eyes in the tail of the peacock. See Met. 1.622-723; SC, gloss to "Julye" and to "October") dispread > spread out
104.18
But this was drawne of six vnequall beasts,
2 On which her six sage Counsellours did ryde,
Taught to obay their bestiall beheasts,
4 With like conditions to their kinds applyde:
Of which the first, that all the rest did guyde,
6 Was sluggish Idlenesse the nourse of sin;
Vpon a slouthfull Asse he chose to ryde,
8 Arayd in habit blacke, and amis thin,
Like to an holy Monck, the seruice to begin.
1 But this was drawn of six unequal beasts,
of > by unequal > different, ill-matched
2 On which her six sage counsellors did ride, 3 Taught to obey their bestial behests, 4 With like conditions to their kinds applied:
With like conditions to their kinds applied > (Literally, "With similar qualities to their natures employed"; each beast was appropriate to its rider)
5 Of which the first, that all the rest did guide, 6 Was sluggish Idleness, the nurse of sin;
Idleness > [Sloth]