ed

4 That cruel element, which all things fear,
5 Nor none can suffer to approach near:

suffer > bear

6 And, turning back to Scudamour, thus said:
7 "What monstrous enmity provoke we here,

provoke > challenge, defy; provoke

8 Foolhardy as the Earth's children, who made

Foolhardy > [As foolhardy]
the Earth's children > (The Giants, the vast beings which, sprung
from the blood that fell from Uranus on Ge (the Earth), piled
Mount Ossa on Mount Pelion in order to launch an unsuccessful
attack on Olympus, abode of the gods)

9 Battle against the gods? So we a god invade.

a god > [Vulcan]

311.23

Daunger without discretion to attempt,
2 Inglorious and beastlike is: therefore Sir knight,
Aread what course of you is safest dempt,
4 And how we with our foe may come to fight.
This +is+ (quoth he) the dolorous despight,
6 Which earst to you I playnd: for neither may
This fire be quencht by any wit or might,
8 Ne yet by any meanes remou'd away,
So mighty be th'enchauntments, which the same do stay.

5 is > _omitted from 1596_

1 "Danger, without discretion, to attempt,

Danger, without discretion, to attempt > [To make an attempt on
danger without discretion]

2 Inglorious and beastlike is: therefore, sir knight,
3 Aread what course of you is safest deemed,

Aread > Make known; counsel; decide
of > by

4 And how we with our foe may come to fight."
5 "This is," quoth he, "the dolorous despite

despite > outrage

6 Which erst to you I plained: for neither may

erst > lately
plained > lamented

7 This fire be quenched by any wit or might,

wit > ingenuity, intelligence
might > strength

8 Nor yet by any means removed away,
9 So mighty be the enchantments which the same do stay.

stay > sustain

311.24

What is there else, but cease these fruitlesse paines,
2 And leaue me to my former +languishing?+
Faire _Amoret_ must dwell in wicked chaines,
4 And _Scudamore_ here dye with sorrowing.
Perdy not so; (said she) for shamefull thing
6 It were t'abandon noble cheuisaunce,
For shew of perill, without venturing:
8 Rather let try extremities of chaunce,
Then enterprised prayse for dread to disauaunce.

2 languishing? > languishing; _1596_

1 "What is there else but cease these fruitless pains,

else > [to do] otherwise
pains > efforts

2 And leave me to my former languishing?