mart:

unwonted smart > unaccustomed pain

9 The point of pity pierced through her tender heart.

305.31

Meekely she bowed downe, to weete if life
2 Yet in his frosen members did remaine,
And feeling by his pulses beating rife,
4 That the weake soule her seat did yet retaine,
She cast to comfort him with busie paine:
6 His double folded necke she reard vpright,
And rubd his temples, and each trembling vaine;
8 His mayled haberieon she did vndight,
And from his head his heauy burganet did +light.+

9 light. > light, _1596_

1 Meekly she bowed down, to weet if life

weet > find out

2 Yet in his frozen members did remain,
3 And feeling by his pulse's beating rife

rife > manifoldly; copiously; _hence:_ strongly

4 That the weak soul its seat did yet retain,
5 She cast to comfort him with busy pain:

cast > set to, started, decisively started
busy pain > solicitous efforts

6 His double folded neck she reared upright,
7 And rubbed his temples, and each trembling vein;
8 His mailed habergeon she did undight,

habergeon > {Sleeveless coat of chain-mail}
undight > undress; _hence:_ remove

9 And from his head his heavy burgonet did light.

burgonet > {Helmet with a visor; steep cap. Cf. _Muiopotmos_ 73,
208.45:3}
light > unload, relieve of [its] weight; _hence:_ remove

305.32

Into the woods thenceforth in hast she went,
2 To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy;
For she of hearbes had great intendiment,
4 Taught of the Nymphe, which from her infancy
Her +nourced+ had in trew Nobility:
6 There, whether it diuine _Tobacco_ were,
Or _Panach{ae}a_, or _Polygony_,
8 She found, and brought it to her patient deare
Who al this while lay bleeding out his hart-bloud neare.

5 nourced > nursed _1609_

1 Into the woods thenceforth in haste she went,
2 To seek for herbs that might him remedy;

remedy > heal, cure

3 For she of herbs had great intendment,

intendment > understanding

4 Taught of the nymph which from her infancy

of > by
nymph > (Nymphs are the minor female divinities with whom the Greeks
peopled all parts of nature: the seas, springs, rivers, grottoes,
trees, mountains)

5 Her nursed had in true nobility:
6 There, whether it divine tobacco were,

tobacco > (Introduced to Europe in 1584 by Spenser's friend,
Raleigh; "diuine" because it was held to have magical properti