ame > charge
3 Else be you sure he dearly shall aby,
Else > Otherwise
dearly > sorely; expensively
aby > atone, pay the penalty; suffer (cf. 204.40:4)
4 Or make you good amendment for the same:
5 All wrongs have mends, but no amends of shame.
mends > compensations (partly aphetic for "amends")
no amends of > [there can be no reparation for]
6 Now, therefore, lady, rise out of your pain,
7 And see the salving of your blotted name."
salving > restoration, making good
8 Full loath she seemed thereto, but yet did feign;
thereto > in that purpose; with that
feign > dissimulate (this spelling suggested by 201.21:1); _also:_
fain: become glad
9 For she was inly glad her purpose so to gain.
inly > inwardly
201.21
Her purpose was not such, as she did faine,
2 Ne yet her person such, as it was seene,
But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine
4 Lurckt false _Duessa_ secretly vnseene,
As a chast Virgin, that had wronged beene:
6 So had false _Archimago_ her disguisd,
To cloke her guile with sorrow and sad teene;
8 And eke himselfe had craftily deuisd
To be her Squire, and do her seruice well aguisd.
1 Her purpose was not such as she did feign,
2 Nor yet her person such as it was seen,
3 But under simple show and semblant plain
show > appearance (cf. 102.45:7)
semblant > outward aspect, semblance
4 Lurked false Duessa, secretly unseen,
5 As a chaste virgin, that had wronged been:
6 So had false Archimago her disguised,
7 To cloak her guile with sorrow and sad teen;
teen > grief; woe
8 And eke himself had craftily devised
eke > also
9 To be her squire, and do her service well aguised.
squire > attendant
aguised > arrayed
201.22
Her late forlorne and naked he had found,
2 Where she did wander in waste wildernesse,
Lurking in rockes and caues farre vnder ground,
4 And with greene mosse cou'ring her nakednesse,
To hide her shame and loathly filthinesse;
6 Sith her Prince _Arthur_ of proud ornaments
And borrow'd beautie spoyld. Her nathelesse
8 Th'enchaunter finding fit for his intents,
Did thus reuest, and deckt with due habiliments.
1 Her late forlorn and naked he had found,
late > lately
2 Where she did wander in waste wilderness,
waste > desolate, uninhabited (see 108.50:3)
3 Lurking in rocks and caves far underground,
4 And with green mos
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