9. Feng: take; Anglo-Saxon “fengian”, German, “fangen”.

10. Him and her on which thy limbes faithfully extend: those

who in faith wear the crucifix.

11. The four spirits of tempest: the four angels who held the

four winds of the earth and to whom it was given to hurt the

earth and the sea (Rev. vii. 1, 2).

12. Thennes would it not in all a tide: thence would it not move

for long, at all.

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