What is "griesly"

Usage examples of "griesly".

So as they gazed after her a while,Lo where a griesly Foster forth did rush,Breathing out beastly lust her to defile:His tyreling iade he fiercely forth did push,Through thicke and thin, both ouer banke and bushIn hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke,That from his gorie sides the bloud did gush:Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke,And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.

All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre,And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright,That now with thousand starres was decked fayre.

Which when that warriour heard, dismounting straictFrom his tall steed, he rusht into the thicke,And soone arriued, where that sad pourtraictOf death and labour lay, halfe dead, halfe quicke,In whose white alabaster brest did stickeA cruell knife, that made a griesly wound,From which forth gusht a streme of gorebloud thick,That all her goodly garments staind around,And into a deepe sanguine dide the grassie ground.

Long they thus trauelled in friendly wise,Through countries waste, and eke well edifyde,Seeking aduentures hard, to exerciseTheir puissance, whylome full dernely tryde:At length they came into a forrest wyde,Whose hideous horror and sad trembling soundFull griesly seem'd: therein they long did ryde,Yet tract of liuing creatures none they found,Saue Beares, Lions, & Buls, which romed them around.

Their firie Steedes with so vntamed forseDid beare them both to fell auenges end,That both their speares with pitilesse remorse,Through shield and mayle, and haberieon did wend,And in their flesh a griesly passage rend,That with the furie of their owne affret,Each other horse and man to ground did send.