earing the child)
quick > alive

5 In whose white alabaster breast did stick
6 A cruel knife, that made a grisly wound,

grisly > horrible, fearsome

7 From which forth gushed a stream of goreblood thick,

goreblood > {?Gory blood; ?blood shed by carnage or butchery}

8 That all her goodly garments stained around,
9 And into a deep sanguine dyed the grassy ground.

sanguine > blood-red

201.40

Pittifull spectacle of deadly smart,
2 Beside a bubbling fountaine low she lay,
Which she increased with her bleeding hart,
4 And the cleane waues with purple +gore+ did ray;
Als in her lap a +louely+ babe did play
6 His cruell sport, in stead of sorrow dew;
For in her streaming blood he did embay
8 His litle hands, and tender ioynts embrew;
Pitifull spectacle, as euer eye did view.

4 gore > gold _1596, 1609_
5 louely > little _1609_

1 Pitiful spectacle of deadly smart,

smart > {Grief, sorrow; suffering; sharp or biting pain. Spenser
may have known that "smart" is perhaps related to the Latin
_mordere_, to bite: see 201.0:3}

2 Beside a bubbling fountain low she lay,
3 Which she increased with her bleeding heart,
4 And the clean waves with purple gore did beray;

purple > red, blood-red
beray > defile; asperse, bespatter

5 Als in her lap a lovely babe did play

Als > As; also

6 His cruel sport, instead of sorrow due;

due > fitting, proper; merited

7 For in her streaming blood he did embay

embay > bathe

8 His little hands, and tender joints imbrue;

joints > arms; limbs
imbrue > steep; defile

9 Pitiful spectacle as ever eye did view.

Pitiful > [As pitiful a]

201.41

Besides them both, vpon the soiled gras
2 The dead corse of an armed knight was spred,
Whose armour all with bloud besprinckled was;
4 His ruddie lips did smile, and rosy red
Did paint his chearefull cheekes, yet being +ded,+
6 Seemd to haue beene a goodly personage,
Now in his freshest flowre of lustie hed,
8 Fit to inflame faire Lady with loues rage,
But that fiers fate did crop the blossome of his age.

5 ded, > ded: _1609_

1 Beside them both, upon the soiled grass

soiled > stained; sullied; defiled

2 The dead corse of an armed knight was spread,

corse > body

3 Whose armour all with blood besprinkled was;

besprinkled > {Sprinkled all over; the prefix is intensive}

4 His ruddy lips d