In dewy vapours of the western main,
main > sea
5 And loosen the team out of his weary wain,
team > [team of horses]
wain > chariot (in which Phoebus Apollo makes his daily journey
across the sky)
6 Might not mislike you also to abate
not mislike > [it] not displease
7 Your zealous haste, till morrow next again
8 Both light of heaven, and strength of men relates:
relates > brings back, restores (SU)
9 Which if you please, to yonder castle turn your gate."
you please > [this advice you pleases]
gate > way, journey (closely cognate with "gait"); _hence:_ course
308.52
That counsell pleased well; so all yfere
2 Forth marched to a Castle them before,
Where soone arriuing, they restrained were
4 Of readie entrance, which ought euermore
To errant knights be +commun+: wondrous sore
6 Thereat displeasd they were, till that young Squire
Gan them informe the cause, why that same dore
8 Was shut to all, which lodging did desire:
The which to let you weet, will further time require.
5 commun > commune _1590_
1 That counsel pleased well; so all yfere
yfere > together
2 Forth marched to a castle them before,
3 Where, soon arriving, they restrained were
restrained > deprived
4 Of ready entrance, which ought evermore
5 To errant knights be common: wondrous sore
errant > itinerant (a "knight errant" roamed in quest of quest of
adventure; the word-order here also implies the sense of erring,
deviating)
common > generally accessible; _hence:_ freely available
6 Thereat displeased they were, till that young squire
Thereat > Because of that, at that
7 Gan them inform the cause why that same door
Gan > Did
cause > reason
8 Was shut to all which lodging did desire:
9 Which, to let you weet, will further time require.
weet > discover, learn
CANTO IX
_Malbecco will no straunge knights host,
2 For peeuish gealosie:
Paridell giusts with Britomart:
4 Both shew their auncestrie._
1 Malbecco will no strange knights host,
strange > foreign; new-come
2 For peevish jealousy:
peevish > senseless, crazy; malicious; perverse; peevish
3 Paridell jousts with Britomart:
4 Both show their ancestry.
show > explain, expound
309.1
REdoubted knights, and honorable Dames,
2 To whom I leuell all my labours end,
Right sore I feare, least with vnworthy blames
4 This
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