mar]

5 For-thy appease your grief and heavy plight,

For-thy > For this reason, therefore
appease > desist from, check

6 And tell the cause of your conceived pain:

conceived > {Taken or admitted into the mind; also: apparent, hence:
self-evident}

7 For if he live, that has you done despite,

live > [lives; the subjunctive here is all but obsolete]
despite > outrage

8 He shall you do due recompense again,
9 Or else his wrong with greater puissance maintain."

puissance > strength, force
maintain > uphold, defend

201.15

Which when she heard, as in despightfull wise,
2 She wilfully her sorrow did augment,
And offred hope of comfort did despise:
4 Her golden lockes most cruelly she rent,
And scratcht her face with ghastly dreriment,
6 Ne would she speake, ne see, ne yet be seene,
But hid her visage, and her head downe bent,
8 Either for grieuous shame, or for great teene,
As if her hart with sorrow had transfixed beene.

1 Which when she heard, as in despiteful wise,

despiteful > [a] scornful
wise > manner

2 She wilfully her sorrow did augment,
3 And offered hope of comfort did despise:
4 Her golden locks most cruelly she rent,

rent > tore

5 And scratched her face with ghastly dreariment,

dreariment > affliction, melancholy

6 Neither would she speak, nor see, nor yet be seen,
7 But hid her visage, and her head down bent,

down bent > bent down, inclined; _or:_ down-bent (describing her
head which she hid)

8 Either for grievous shame, or for great teen,

teen > grief; woe

9 As if her heart with sorrow had transfixed been.

201.16

Till her that Squire bespake, Madame my +liefe+,
2 For Gods deare loue be not so wilfull bent,
But doe vouchsafe now to receiue reliefe,
4 The which good fortune doth to you present.
For what bootes it to weepe and to wayment,
6 When ill is chaunst, but doth the ill increase,
And the weake mind with double woe +torment?+
8 When she her Squire heard speake, she gan appease
Her voluntarie paine, and feele some secret ease.

1 liefe > life _1590; cf. 201.52:5_
7 torment? > torment{inverse ?} _1596_

1 Till her that squire bespoke: "Madam, my lief,

that squire > [Archimago]
bespoke > addressed
lief > friend, dear

2 For God's dear love be not so wilful bent,

wilful bent > wilfully inclined

3 But do vouchsafe now to receive rel