the battle does herself prepare:
7 So ran the giantess to the fight;
8 Her fiery eyes with furious sparks did stare,

stare > glare

9 And with blasphemous bans high God in pieces tore.

bans > curses, imprecations

307.40

She caught in hand an huge great yron mace,
2 Wherewith she many had of life depriued,
But ere the stroke could seize his aymed place,
4 His speare amids her sun-broad shield arriued;
Yet nathemore the steele a sunder riued,
6 All were the beame in bignesse like a mast,
Ne her out of the stedfast sadle driued,
8 But glauncing on the tempred mettall, brast
In thousand shiuers, and so forth beside her past.

1 She caught in hand a huge great iron mace,
2 Wherewith she many had of life deprived,

Wherewith > With which

3 But, ere the stroke could seize its aimed place,

seize > take possession of; fasten upon (latter is SUS)

4 His spear amidst her sun-broad shield arrived:

amidst > in the middle of

5 Yet nathemore the steel asunder rived,

nathemore > not at all
rived > split; tore

6 All were the beam in bigness like a mast;

All > Although

7 Nor her out of the steadfast saddle drove,
8 But, glancing on the tempered metal, burst
9 In thousand shivers, and so forth beside her passed.

307.41

Her Steed did stagger with that puissaunt strooke;
2 But she no more was moued with that might,
Then it had lighted on an aged Oke;
4 Or on the marble Pillour, that is pight
Vpon the top of Mount _Olympus_ hight,
6 For the braue youthly Champions to assay,
With burning charet wheeles it nigh to smite:
8 But who that smites it, mars his ioyous play,
And is the spectacle of ruinous decay.

1 Her steed did stagger with that puissant stroke;

puissant > powerful

2 But she no more was moved with that might

might > force

3 Than it had lighted on an aged oak;

it had > [had it]
lighted on > alighted on, struck

4 Or on the marble pillar that is pight

pight > placed

5 Upon the top of Mount Olympus' height,

height > summit ("The assumption that Mount Olympus was the site of
the Olympic Games appears also in Sidney's _Apology for Poetry_;
but Spenser may have been misled by the obscure language of the
_Mythologiae_ of Natales Comes (5.1)": Maclean (1982) 286)

6 For the brave youthly champions to essay,

essay > attempt

7 With burning charet whe