5 Were like main-yards, with flying canvas lined, 6 With which when he list the air to beat,
list > chose
7 And there by force unwonted passage find,
unwonted > unaccustomed [the air being unaccustomed to such treatment]
8 The clouds before him fled for terror great, 9 And all the heavens stood still, amazed with his threat.
amazed with > overwhelmed by, confounded by threat > thrust; menace, threat
111.11
His huge long tayle wound vp in hundred foldes,
2 Does ouerspred his long bras-scaly backe,
Whose wreathed boughts when euer he vnfoldes,
4 And thicke entangled knots adown does +slacke.+
Bespotted +as+ with shields of red and blacke,
6 It sweepeth all the land behind him farre,
And of three furlongs does but litle lacke;
8 And at the point two stings in-fixed arre,
Both deadly sharpe, that sharpest steele exceeden farre.
4 slacke. > slack. 1590; slack; 1609 5 as > all 1590 etc.: FE
1 His huge long tail, wound up in hundred folds,