4 Her twofold team, of which two black as pitch, 5 And two were brown, yet each to each unlike,
brown > [merely] dusky, dark
6 Did softly swim away, nor ever stamp, 7 Unless she chanced their stubborn mouths to twitch;
twitch > jerk at; pinch, nip, pain
8 Then, foaming tar, their bridles they would champ, 9 And, trampling the fine element, would fiercely ramp.
fine element > [air] ramp > rear up
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So well they sped, that they be come at length
2 Vnto the place, whereas the Paynim lay,
Deuoid of outward sense, and natiue strength,
4 Couerd with charmed cloud from vew of day,
And sight of men, since his late luckelesse fray.
6 His cruell wounds with cruddy bloud congealed,
They binden vp so wisely, as they may,
8 And handle softly, till they can be healed:
So lay him in her charet, close in night concealed.
1 So well they sped, that they be come at length 2 To the place where the paynim lay,
paynim > pagan, heathen