2 "Dear son, great been the evils which you bore

great been > [so] great were

3 From first to last in your late enterprise,

late > recent

4 That I no'te whether praise or pity more:

no'te > know not
praise > [to praise]
pity > [to pity you]

5 For never living man, I ween, so sore

ween > think, believe

6 In sea of deadly dangers was distressed;
7 But since now safe you seized have the shore,

seized > reached, gained

8 And well arrived are (high God be blessed),
9 Let us devise of ease and everlasting rest."

devise > talk

112.18

Ah dearest Lord, said then that doughty knight,
2 Of ease or rest I may not yet deuize;
For by the faith, which I to armes haue plight,
4 I bounden am streight after this emprize,
As that your daughter can ye well aduize,
6 Backe to returne to that great Faerie Queene,
And her to serue six yeares in warlike wize,
8 Gainst that proud +Paynim+ king, that workes her teene:
Therefore I ought craue pardon, till I there haue beene.

8 Paynim > Pynim _1596_

1 "Ah dearest lord," said then that doughty knight,
2 "Of ease or rest I may not yet devise;

devise > talk

3 For by the faith which I to arms have plight,

plight > pledged

4 I bound am straight after this emprise

straight > straight; strictly
emprise > enterprise, undertaking

5 (As that your daughter can you well advise),
6 Back to return to that great Faery Queen,
7 And her to serve six years in warlike wise,

wise > manner

8 Against that proud paynim king, that works her teen:

paynim king > heathen king [Philip II of Spain]
teen > grief, trouble

9 Therefore I ought crave pardon, till I there have been.

crave > [to crave your]

112.19

Vnhappie falles that hard necessitie,
2 (Quoth he) the troubler of my happie peace,
And vowed foe of my felicitie;
4 Ne I against the same can iustly preace:
But +since+ that band ye cannot now release,
6 Nor doen vndo; (for vowes may not be vaine)
Soone as the terme of those six yeares shall cease,
8 Ye then shall hither backe returne againe,
The marriage to accomplish vowd betwixt you twain.

5 since > sith _1609_

1 "Unhappy falls that hard necessity,"
2 Quoth he, "the troubler of my happy peace,
3 And vowed foe of my felicity;
4 Nor I against the same can justly press:
5 But since that bond you cannot now release,
6