s of a slave]

3 Since more bounteous creature never fared

more bounteous > [a] more virtuous

4 On foot upon the face of living land?
5 Or if heavenly justice may withstand
6 The wrongful outrage of unrighteous men,
7 Why then is Busirane with wicked hand
8 Suffered, these seven months' day, in secret den

Suffered > Allowed
day > space (of time), period

9 My lady and my love so cruelly to pen?

311.11

My Lady and my loue is +cruelly+ pend
2 In dolefull darkenesse from the vew of day,
Whilest deadly torments do her chast brest rend,
4 And the sharpe steele doth riue her hart in tway,
All for she _Scudamore_ will not denay.
6 Yet thou vile man, vile _Scudamore_ art sound,
Ne canst her ayde, ne canst her foe dismay;
8 Vnworthy wretch to tread vpon the ground,
For whom so faire a Lady feeles so sore a wound.

1 cruelly > cruell' _1609_

1 "My lady and my love is cruelly penned
2 In doleful darkness from the view of day,

doleful > grievous, distressing; _also:_ malicious, crafty

3 Whilst deadly torments do her chaste breast rend,

rend > tear

4 And the sharp steel does rive her heart in tway,

rive > split, tear
tway > two

5 All for she Scudamour will not deny.

for > because

6 Yet you vile man, vile Scudamour are sound,
7 Nor can her aid, nor can her foe dismay;

dismay > overcome; defeat

8 Unworthy wretch to tread upon the ground,
9 For whom so fair a lady feels so sore a wound."

311.12

There an huge heape of +singults+ did oppresse
2 His strugling soule, and swelling throbs empeach
His foltring toung with pangs of drerinesse,
4 Choking the remnant of his plaintife speach,
As if his dayes were come to their last reach.
6 Which when she heard, and saw the ghastly fit,
Threatning into his life to make a breach,
8 Both with great ruth and terrour she was smit,
Fearing least from her cage the wearie soule would flit.

1 singults > singulfes _1590, 1596; cf. 506.13:9, _CC_ 168, _TM_
232. In the last two instances, the spelling error was corrected
in the 1611 edition_

1 There a huge heap of singults did oppress

singults > sobs

2 His struggling soul, and swelling throbs impeach

throbs > quiverings; _hence:_ tremors
impeach > impede

3 His faltering tongue with pangs of dreariness,

dreariness > sorrow; horror

4 Choking the remnant of his plaintive