ote off his left arme, which like a blocke
Did fall to ground, depriu'd of natiue might;
8 Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke
Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke.

3 auantage > aduantage _1590_

1 His boisterous club, so buried in the ground,

boisterous > cumbersome

2 He could not rear up again so lightly;

lightly > easily, quickly [as he had buried it]

3 But that the knight himself at advantage found,

But > [So]

4 And, while he strove his encumbered club to quit

quit > free

5 Out of the earth, with blade all burning bright
6 He smote off his left arm, which like a block
7 Did fall to ground, deprived of native might;

native > innate

8 Large streams of blood out of the trunked stock

trunked > truncated (Latin _truncus_: cf. 205.4:9)

9 Forth gushed, like freshwater stream from riven rock.

108.11

Dismaied with so desperate deadly wound,
2 And eke impatient of vnwonted paine,
He loudly brayd with beastly yelling sound,
4 That all the fields rebellowed againe;
As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine
6 An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting,
Do for the milkie mothers want complaine,
8 And fill the fields with troublous bellowing,
The neighbour woods around with hollow +murmur ring+.

9 murmur ring > murmuring _1590 etc.: FE_

1 Dismayed with so desperate deadly wound,

Dismayed with > Dismayed by; dis-made by (again the pun: cf.
108.5:4)
so > such [a]

2 And eke impatient of unwonted pain,

eke impatient of unwonted pain > also unable to endure unaccustomed
pain

3 He loudly brayed with beastly yelling sound,

brayed > cried out

4 That all the fields rebellowed again;

That > [So that]
rebellowed > bellowed in reply; loudly re-echoed

5 As great a noise, as when in Cymbrian plain

Cymbrian > (Various explanations of this word have been put forward:
(1) Cumbrian: Cumbria is a region in NW England which Spenser
probably knew; (2) Cambrian, meaning Welsh; (3) Cimbrian, after
the Cimbrian peninsula in modern Denmark, once noted for the
ferocity of its inhabitants; (4) Crimean: relating to the Tauric
Chersonese, once inhabited by the Cimmerii)

6 A herd of bulls, whom kindly rage does sting,

kindly rage > lust (kindly = natural; rage = violent passion)

7 Do for the milky mothers' want complain,

want > lack

8 And fill the field