iwis > certainly, indeed, assuredly

5 So be you pleased to pardon all amiss.

So be you > [If you will be]
all amiss > [all in it that is objectionable]

6 That gentle lady, whom I love and serve,

gentle > noble; gracious

7 After long suit and weary services,
8 Did ask me how I could her love deserve,
9 And how she might be sure that I would never swerve.

307.54

I glad by any meanes her grace to gaine,
2 Bad her commaund my life to saue, or spill.
Eftsoones she bad me, with incessaunt paine
4 To wander through the world abroad at will,
And euery where, where with my power or skill
6 I might do seruice vnto gentle Dames,
That I the same should faithfully fulfill,
8 And at the twelue monethes end should bring their names
And pledges; as the spoiles of my victorious games.

1 "I, glad by any means her grace to gain,
2 Bade her command my life to save, or spill.

spill > destroy

3 Eftsoons she bade me with incessant pain

Eftsoons > Thereupon; presently
pain > effort; pain

4 To wander through the world abroad at will,
5 And everywhere, where with my power or skill

skill > knowledge; skill

6 I might do service to gentle dames;

do service to > profess love to; supply the sexual needs of,
copulate with
gentle > gentle; gracious

7 That I the same should faithfully fulfil,
8 And, at the twelve months' end, should bring their names
9 And pledges as the spoils of my victorious games.

307.55

So well I to faire Ladies seruice did,
2 And found such fauour in their louing hartes,
That ere the yeare his course had compassid,
4 Three hundred pledges for my good desartes,
And thrise three hundred thanks for my good partes
6 I with me brought, and did to her present:
Which when she saw, more bent to eke my smartes,
8 Then to reward my trusty true intent,
She gan for me deuise a grieuous punishment.

1 "So well I to fair ladies service did,
2 And found such favour in their loving hearts,
3 That, ere the year its course had compassed,

compassed > accomplished; encircled

4 Three hundred pledges for my good deserts,

deserts > deeds, merits

5 And thrice three hundred thanks for my good parts

parts > acts; qualities, capacities; _also, perhaps:_ private parts
(as 202.37:5)

6 I with me brought, and did to her present:
7 Which when she saw, more bent to eke my