own out from womanish impatient mind?
3 What heavens? what altars? what enraged heats,
heats > fits of passion; quarrels
4 Here heaped up with terms of love unkind,
terms > words, language
unkind > unnatural; unkind
5 My conscience clear with guilty bonds would bind?
6 High God be witness that I guiltless am.
7 But if yourself, sir knight, you faulty find,
faulty > guilty
8 Or wrapped be in loves of former dame,
dame > lady, woman; mistress
9 With crime do not it cover, but disclose the same."
crime > [false denial]
112.31
To whom the _Redcrosse_ knight this answere sent,
2 My Lord, my King, be nought hereat dismayd,
Till well ye wote by graue intendiment,
4 What woman, and wherefore doth me vpbrayd
With breach of loue, and loyalty betrayd.
6 It was in my mishaps, as hitherward
I lately traueild, that vnwares I strayd
8 Out of my way, through perils straunge and hard;
That day should faile me, ere I had them all declard.
1 To whom the Redcross Knight this answer sent,
answer > {Rejoinder; reply to an accusation}
2 "My lord, my king, be naught hereat dismayed,
3 Till well you wot by grave intendiment
wot > learn, discover; know
grave > careful
intendiment > attention; consideration; intendment
4 What woman, and wherefore does me upbraid
wherefore > on which account; in consequence of which
does > [she] does
5 With breach of love, and loyalty betrayed.
6 It was in my mishaps, as hitherward
7 I lately travelled, that unwares I strayed
unwares > unwittingly; unexpectedly
8 Out of my way, through perils strange and hard;
9 That day should fail me, ere I had them all declared.
That day should fail me > [It would take a very long time]
112.32
There did I find, or rather I was found
2 Of this false woman, that _Fidessa_ hight,
_Fidessa_ hight the falsest Dame on ground,
4 Most false _Duessa_, royall richly dight,
That easie was +t'inuegle+ weaker sight:
6 Who by her wicked arts, and wylie skill,
Too false and strong for earthly skill or might,
8 Vnwares me wrought vnto her wicked will,
And to my foe betrayd, when least I feared ill.
5 t'inuegle > to inuegle _1590 etc.: FE_
1 "There did I find (or rather I was found
2 Of) this false woman, that Fidessa hight,
Of > By
hight > is named
3 Fidessa hight the falsest dame on ground,
dame > lady,
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