7 With dreary shrieks did also her bewray;
dreary > dreadful bewray > betray, reveal
8 And hungry wolves continually did howl 9 At her abhorred face, so filthy and so foul.
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Thence turning backe in silence soft they stole,
2 And brought the heauie corse with easie pace
To yawning gulfe of deepe Auernus hole.
4 By that same hole an entrance darke and bace
With smoake and sulphure hiding all the place,
6 Descends to hell: there creature neuer past,
That backe returned without heauenly grace;
8 But dreadfull Furies, which their chaines haue brast,
And damned sprights sent forth to make ill men aghast.
1 Thence turning back in silence soft they stole, 2 And brought the heavy corse with easy pace
corse > body
3 To yawning gulf of deep Avernus' hole.
gulf > abyss Avernus > (Lake Avernus, a volcanic lake near Naples, still called Lago d'Averno. Near it was the cave of the Cumaean Sibyl, through which Aeneas descended to the infernal regions: see Aen. 6.237 ff.)
4 By that same hole an entrance, dark and base,