so cruel case,

That > [So that]
case > [a] plight; _also, punningly:_ case, enclosure

9 But thought his arms to leave, and helmet to unlace.

arms > {Weapons, shield and armour}

111.27

Not that great Champion of the antique world,
2 Whom famous Poetes verse so much doth +vaunt+,
And hath for twelue huge labours high extold,
4 So many furies and sharpe fits did haunt,
When him the poysoned garment did enchaunt
6 With _Centaures_ bloud, and bloudie verses charm'd,
As did this knight twelue thousand dolours daunt,
8 Whom fyrie steele now burnt, that earst him arm'd,
That erst him goodly arm'd, now most of all him harm'd.

2 vaunt > daunt _1596, 1609_

1 Not that great champion of the antique world

champion > (Hercules)
antique > ancient

2 (Whom famous poets' verse so much does vaunt,

vaunt > display, make a show of; boast of

3 And has for twelve huge labours high extolled),

high > [been highly; high been]
extolled > praised; praised overmuch

4 So many furies and sharp fits did haunt,

So > (Follows from line 1: "Not so many furies did haunt that great
champion as did this knight twelve thousand dolours daunt")
haunt > visit; molest

5 When him the poisoned garment did enchant

garment > (A white garment soaked in the blood of the centaur
Nessus, by which Hercules was killed (see _Met._ 9.134 ff.))
enchant > {Exert an evil magical influence upon}

6 (With centaur's blood and bloody verses charmed),
7 As did this knight twelve thousand dolours daunt,

dolours > pains

8 Whom fiery steel now burnt, that erst him armed,

erst > [at] first

9 That erst him goodly armed, now most of all him harmed.

111.28

Faint, wearie, sore, emboyled, grieued, brent
2 With heat, toyle, wounds, armes, smart, and inward fire
That neuer man such mischiefes did torment;
4 Death better were, death did he oft desire,
But death will neuer come, when needes require.
6 Whom so dismayd when that his foe beheld,
He cast to suffer him no more respire,
8 But gan his sturdie sterne about to weld,
And him so strongly stroke, that to the ground him feld.

1 Faint, weary, sore, emboiled, grieved, burnt,

emboiled > {Boiling with heat; boiling with rage; caused to be
boiling with rage: SUS}
grieved > hurt

2 With heat, toil, wounds, arms, smart, and inward fire,

smart > acute pain

3 That never man such mis