now then your plaint appease.

1 "And sooth to say, why I left you so long

sooth > truth; truthfully, truly

2 Was to seek adventure in strange place,

strange > foreign, outlying

3 Where, Archimago said, a felon strong

Archimago said > (See 101.31:3)

4 To many knights did daily work disgrace;

disgrace > affront; misfortune

5 But knight he now shall never more deface:

deface > defame; disfigure; destroy

6 Good cause of my excuse; that might you please
7 Well to accept, and evermore embrace
8 My faithful service, that by land and seas

that > [of I that]

9 Have vowed you to defend; now then, your plaint appease."

plaint > complaint, lamentation
appease > check, cease

103.30

His louely words her seemd due recompence
2 Of all her passed paines: one louing howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
4 A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre:
She has forgot, how many a wofull stowre
6 For him she late endur'd; she speakes no more
Of past: true is, that true loue hath no powre
8 To looken backe; his eyes be fixt before.
Before her stands her knight, for whom she toyld so sore.

1 His lovely words her seemed due recompense

lovely > loving
her seemed > [seemed to her]

2 Of all her passed pains: one loving hour
3 For many years of sorrow can dispense:

dispense > make amends

4 A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sour.

dram > {Drachm, one sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois}

5 She has forgotten how many a woeful stour

stour > distress, time of distress

6 For him she late endured; she speaks no more

late > lately

7 Of past: true is, that true love has no power
8 To look back; its eyes are fixed before.
9 Before her stands her knight, for whom she toiled so sore.

103.31

Much like, as when the beaten marinere,
2 That long hath wandred in the _Ocean_ wide,
Oft soust in swelling _Tethys_ saltish teare,
4 And long time hauing tand his tawney hide
With blustring breath of heauen, that none can bide,
6 And scorching flames of fierce _Orions_ hound,
Soone as the port from farre he has espide,
8 His chearefull whistle merrily doth sound,
And _Nereus_ crownes with cups; his mates him pledg around.

1 Much like when the beaten mariner
2 (That long has wandered in the ocean wide,
3 Oft soused in swelling Tethys' saltish tear,

saltish > salty