are redoubted might,
2 Famous throughout the world for warlike praise,
praise > praiseworthiness; virtue; _hence:_ qualities, worth
3 And glorious spoils, purchased in perilous fight:
purchased > got by conquest
4 Full many doughty knights he in his days
Full > Very
5 Had done to death, subdued in equal frays,
subdued > overcome (by violence)
equal > fair, impartial
6 Whose carcases, for terror of his name,
7 Of fowls and beasts he made the piteous prey,
8 And hung their conquered arms, for more defame,
more > greater
defame > disgrace, defamation
9 On gallow trees, in honour of his dearest dame.
205.27
His dearest Dame is that Enchaunteresse,
2 The vile _Acrasia_, that with vaine delightes,
And idle pleasures in +her+ _Bowre_ of _Blisse_,
4 Doe charme her louers, and the feeble sprightes
Can call out of the bodies of fraile wightes:
6 Whom then she does transforme to monstrous hewes,
And horribly misshapes with vgly sightes,
8 Captiu'd eternally in yron mewes,
And darksom dens, where _Titan_ his face neuer shewes.
3 her > his _1596_
1 His dearest dame is that enchantress,
2 The vile Acrasia, that with vain delights
vain > vain; empty
3 And idle pleasures, in her Bower of Bliss,
4 Does charm her lovers, and the feeble spirits
5 Can call out of the bodies of frail wights:
frail > weak, morally weak
wights > men; people, mortals
6 Whom then she does transform to monstrous hues,
monstrous hues > [the] forms of monsters
7 And horribly misshapes with ugly sights,
sights > appearances
8 Captived eternally in iron mews,
Captived > Held captive
mews > cages
9 And darksome dens, where Titan his face never shows.
205.28
There _Atin_ found _Cymochles_ soiourning,
2 To serue his Lemans loue: for +he+ by kind,
Was giuen all to lust and loose liuing,
4 When euer his fiers hands he free mote find:
And now he has pourd out his idle mind
6 In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes,
Hauing his warlike weapons cast behind,
8 And flowes in pleasures, and vaine pleasing toyes,
Mingled emongst loose Ladies and lasciuious boyes.
2 he > he, _1609_
1 There Atin found Cymochles sojourning,
2 To serve his leman's love: for he, by kind,
leman > lover
kind > nature
3 Was given all to lust and loose living,
4 Whenever his fierce hands he free might find:
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