oak, which he had torn

snaggy > knotty

8 Out of his mother's bowels, and it made
9 His mortal mace, wherewith his foemen he dismayed.

mortal > lethal
wherewith > with which
foemen > foes
dismayed > defeated

107.11

That when the knight he spide, he gan aduance
2 With huge force and insupportable mayne,
And towardes him with dreadfull fury praunce;
4 Who haplesse, and eke +hopelesse,+ all in vaine
Did to him pace, sad battaile to darrayne,
6 Disarmd, disgrast, and inwardly dismayde,
And eke so faint in euery ioynt and vaine,
8 Through that fraile fountaine, which him feeble made,
That scarsely could he weeld his bootlesse single blade.

4 hopelesse, > hopelesse; _1590, 1596_

1 When the knight he spied, he gan advance

gan > did; began to

2 With huge force and insupportable main,

insupportable > irresistible
main > strength, power

3 And towards him with dreadful fury prance;

prance > swagger

4 Who, hapless, and eke hopeless, all in vain

eke > also

5 Did to him pace, sad battle to deraign,

to > towards
sad > grievous
deraign > challenge

6 Disarmed, disgraced, and inwardly dismayed,
7 And eke so faint in every joint and vein,

joint > limb

8 Through that frail fountain, which him feeble made,

frail > enfeebling

9 That scarcely could he wield his bootless single blade.

bootless > unavailing
single > single, solitary; unaided

107.12

The Geaunt strooke so maynly mercilesse,
2 That could haue ouerthrowne a stony towre,
And were not heauenly grace, that him did blesse,
4 He had beene pouldred all, as thin as flowre:
But he was wary of that deadly stowre,
6 And lightly lept from vnderneath the blow:
Yet so exceeding was the villeins powre,
8 That with the wind it did him ouerthrow,
And all his sences +stound+, that still he lay full low.

9 stound > stoond _1590_

1 The giant struck so mainly merciless,

mainly > powerfully, violently

2 That could have overthrown a stony tower,

That > [That he; That the stroke]

3 And, were not heavenly grace that him did bless,

were not > [were it not; had it not been for]
him > [the Redcross Knight]
bless > guard, protect from evil

4 He had been powdered all as thin as flour:

had > [would have been]

5 But he was wary of that deadly stour,

stour > peril

6 And lightly leapt from underneath the blow: