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Before the threshold dreadfull Cerberus
2 His three deformed heads did lay along,
Curled with thousand adders venemous,
4 And lilled forth his bloudie flaming tong:
At them he gan to reare his bristles strong,
6 And felly gnarre, vntill dayes enemy
Did him appease; then downe his taile he hong
8 And suffered them to passen quietly:
For she in hell and heauen had power equally.
1 Before the threshold dreadful Cerberus
Cerberus > (The three-headed hound guarding the gates of hell. See Aen. 6.417 ff., Virgil's Gnat 345-52)
2 His three deformed heads did lay along,
along > at full length
3 Curled with thousand adders venomous, 4 And lilled forth his bloody flaming tongue:
lilled > lolled
5 At them he began to rear his bristles strong,
bristles > hackles