e lust advanced,

ribald > {Rascal; wicked, blasphemous, dissolute, or licentious
fellow}
advanced > moved forward; _hence:_ impelled, incited

4 Laid first his filthy hands on virgin clean,

clean > pure, unsullied

5 To spoil her dainty corse (so fair and sheen

spoil > strip (cf. 108.45:9); despoil
corse > body
sheen > beautiful

6 As on the earth, great mother of us all,
7 With living eye more fair was never seen)
8 Of chastity and honour virginal:
9 Witness you heavens, whom she in vain to help did call."

201.11

How may it be, (said then the knight halfe wroth,)
2 That knight should knighthood euer so haue shent?
None but that saw (quoth he) would weene for troth,
4 How shamefully that Maid he did torment.
Her looser golden lockes he rudely rent,
6 And drew her on the ground, and his sharpe sword,
Against her snowy brest +he+ fiercely bent,
8 And threatned death with many a bloudie word;
Toung hates to tell the rest, that eye to see abhord.

7 he > be _1596_

1 "How may it be," said then the knight half wroth,
2 "That knight should knighthood ever so have shent?"

knight > [a knight, any knight]
shent > disgraced

3 "None but that saw," quoth he, "would ween for troth

None but that saw > [Nobody except one who saw]
ween > believe, imagine
troth > truth

4 How shamefully that maid he did torment.

maid > virgin; young woman

5 Her looser golden locks he rudely rent,

looser > too-loose; _hence:_ unfastened, dishevelled
rudely > roughly, violently; ignobly
rent > tore

6 And drew her on the ground; and his sharp sword
7 Against her snowy breast he fiercely bent,
8 And threatened death with many a bloody word;
9 Tongue hates to tell the rest, that eye to see abhorred."

201.12

Therewith amoued from his sober mood,
2 And liues he yet (said he) that wrought this act,
And doen the heauens afford him vitall food?
4 He liues, (quoth he) and boasteth of the fact,
Ne yet hath any knight his courage crackt.
6 Where may that treachour then (said he) be found,
Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
8 That shall I shew (said he) as sure, as hound
The stricken Deare doth chalenge by the bleeding wound.

1 Therewith amoved from his sober mood,

Therewith > With that; thereupon
amoved > stirred

2 "And lives he yet," said he, "that wrought this act,

that > [he who]

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