e Redcross Knight did erst display

erst > lately
display > describe

5 Her lover's shape and chivalrous array;

shape > appearance
chivalrous > {Doughty; pertaining to a medieval knight}
array > state; _or, more likely, in view of "cheualrous", and
complementing "shape":_ outfit, attire, _hence:_ armour

6 A thousand thoughts she fashioned in her mind,
7 And in her feigning fancy did portray
8 Him such as fittest she for love could find:

such > [to be such]

9 Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind.

kind > sympathetic, kind; loving, affectionate; well born

304.6

With such selfe-pleasing thoughts her wound she fed,
2 And thought so to beguile her grieuous smart;
But so her smart was much more grieuous bred,
4 And the deepe wound more deepe engord her hart,
That nought but death her dolour mote depart.
6 So forth she rode without repose or rest,
Searching all lands and each remotest part,
8 Following the guidaunce of her blinded guest,
Till that +to the+ sea-coast at length she +her+ +addrest.+

9 to the > tothe _1596_
9 her > had _1609_
9 addrest. > addres . _1596_

1 With such self-pleasing thoughts her wound she fed,
2 And thought so to beguile her grievous smart;

so > thus
beguile > pleasantly divert attention from
smart > pain

3 But so her smart was much more grievous bred,
4 And the deep wound more deep engored her heart,

engored > gored, wounded deeply

5 That naught but death her dolour might depart.

dolour > pain; mental suffering
might > could
depart > sever, break off; (catachr.) remove

6 So forth she rode, without repose or rest,
7 Searching all lands and each remotest part,
8 Following the guidance of her blinded guest,

her blinded guest > [Cupid, who shoots his arrows without caring
whom they hit. He is often depicted wearing a blindfold.
"Guest" here might = "foe" (from the Latin _hostis_) or perhaps
the modern sense applies, in that he is a guest (albeit
uninvited) in her heart]

9 Till to the sea coast at length she her addressed.

her addressed > betook herself

304.7

There she +alighted+ from her light-foot beast,
2 And sitting downe vpon the rocky shore,
Bad her old Squire vnlace her lofty creast;
4 Tho hauing vewd a while the surges hore,
That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly rore,
6 And in their raging surquedry disdaynd,
That the fast earth