d seeming knight,
Mote ought allay the storme of your despight,
6 And settle patience in so furious heat?
Not to debate the chalenge of your right,
8 But for this carkasse pardon I entreat,
Whom fortune hath alreadie laid in lowest seat.

3 doe > doth _1609_

1 Tho turning to those brethren, thus bespoke:

Tho > Then
bespoke > said; addressed [them]

2 "You warlike pair, whose valorous great might,
3 It seems, just wrongs to vengeance do provoke
4 (To wreak your wrath on this dead-seeming knight),
5 Might aught allay the storm of your despite,

aught > anything at all
despite > anger; malice

6 And settle patience in so furious heat?

so > such [a]

7 Not to debate the challenge of your right,

debate > dispute, _with implied threat of physical following verbal
contention_
challenge of > claim to

8 But for this carcase pardon I entreat,
9 Whom fortune has already laid in lowest seat."

208.28

To whom _Cymochles_ said; For what art thou,
2 That mak'st thy selfe his dayes-man, to prolong
The vengeance prest? Or who shall let me now,
4 On this vile bodie from to wreake my wrong,
And make his carkasse as the outcast dong?
6 Why should not that dead carrion satisfie
The guilt, which if he liued had thus long,
8 His life for due reuenge should deare abie?
The trespasse still doth liue, albe the person die.

1 To whom Cymochles said: "For what are you,
2 That make yourself his daysman, to prolong

daysman > arbitrator
prolong > postpone

3 The vengeance prest? Or who shall let me now,

prest > at hand
let > hinder, prevent

4 On this vile body from to wreak my wrong,

vile > despicable, worthless
to wreak > revenging

5 And make his carcase as the outcast dung?
6 Why should not that dead carrion satisfy
7 The guilt which, if he lived had thus long,
8 His life for due revenge should dear aby?

dear aby > dearly atone

9 The trespass still does live, albe the person die."

trespass > offence, sin
albe > although, albeit
die > [dies, has died]

208.29

Indeed (then said the Prince) the euill donne
2 Dyes not, when breath the bodie first doth leaue,
But from the grandsyre to the Nephewes sonne,
4 And all his seed the curse doth often cleaue,
Till vengeance vtterly the guilt bereaue:
6 So streightly God doth iudge. But gentle knight,
That doth against the