Still > Ever, continuously
late > recent
mischief > misfortune, disaster

4 Then still the smart thereof increased more,

smart > pain, acute pain

5 And seemed more grievous than it was before:
6 At last, when sorrow he saw booted naught,

booted > availed

7 Ne grief might not his love to him restore,

Ne > [And that; and neither: with the intensive double negative]

8 He gan devise how her he rescue might:

gan > did; began to

9 Ten thousand ways he cast in his confused thought.

cast > contrived; decided upon

310.19

At last resoluing, like a pilgrim pore,
2 To +search+ her forth, where so she might be fond,
And bearing with him treasure in close store,
4 The rest he leaues in ground: So takes in hond
To seeke her endlong, both by sea and lond.
6 Long he her sought, he sought her farre and nere,
And euery where that he mote vnderstond,
8 Of knights and ladies any meetings were,
And of eachone he met, he tydings did inquere.

2 search > seach _1596_

1 At last resolving like a pilgrim poor

like > [disguised as; also: in the manner of]

2 To search her forth whereso she might be found,

whereso > wherever

3 And bearing with him treasure in close store,

close > secret, hidden

4 The rest he leaves in ground: so takes in hand
5 To seek her endlong, both by sea and land.

endlong > from end to end [of the world]

6 Long he her sought, he sought her far and near,
7 And everywhere that he might understand

might understand > could learn [that]

8 Of knights and ladies any meetings were;
9 And of each one he met he tidings did inquire.

each one > everyone

310.20

But all in vaine, his woman was too wise,
2 Euer to come into his clouch againe,
And he too simple euer to surprise
4 The iolly _Paridell_, for all his paine.
One day, as he forpassed by the plaine
6 With weary pace, he farre away espide
A couple, seeming well to be his twaine,
8 Which houed close vnder a forrest side,
As if they lay in wait, or else themselues did hide.

1 But all in vain: his woman was too wise
2 Ever to come into his clutch again,

clutch > claws, grasp; hand (the beginning of an extended metaphor
based in falconry)

3 And he too simple ever to surprise

he > [he was]

4 The jolly Paridell, for all his pain.

jolly > gallant; fine; amorous, lustful
pain > pains, effor