life in long captiuitee:
4 For all I seeke, is but to haue redrest
The bitter pangs, that doth your heart infest.
6 Tell then, {o^} Lady tell, what fatall priefe
Hath with so huge misfortune you opprest?
8 That I may cast to compasse your reliefe,
Or die with you in sorrow, and partake your griefe.

1 "Ah, far be it," said he, "dear dame, from me
2 To hinder soul from its desired rest,
3 Or hold sad life in long captivity:
4 For all I seek is but to have redressed

redressed > remedied; removed

5 The bitter pangs that do your heart infest.

infest > harass, molest; (catachr.) infect

6 Tell then, O lady tell, what fatal proof

proof > experience, trial

7 Has with so huge misfortune you oppressed?

so > such

8 That I may cast to compass your relief,

That > [So that]
cast > contrive
compass > accomplish

9 Or die with you in sorrow, and partake your grief."

partake > share in (trans.)

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With feeble hands then stretched forth on hye,
2 As heauen accusing guiltie of her death,
And with dry drops congealed in her eye,
4 In these sad words she spent her vtmost breath:
Heare then, {o^} man, the sorrowes that vneath
6 My tongue can tell, so farre all sense they pas:
Loe this dead corpse, that lies here vnderneath,
8 The gentlest knight, that euer on greene gras
Gay steed with spurs did pricke, the good Sir +Mortdant+ was.

9 Mortdant > _Mordant 1609_

1 With feeble hands then stretched forth on high
2 (As heaven accusing guilty of her death),

As heaven accusing > [As if accusing heaven of being]

3 And with dry drops congealed in her eye,
4 In these sad words she spent her utmost breath:

utmost > final

5 "Hear then, O man, the sorrows that uneath

uneath > scarcely, with difficulty

6 My tongue can tell, so far all sense they pass:

pass > surpass

7 Lo this dead corpse, that lies here underneath,
8 The gentlest knight, that ever on green grass

gentlest > noblest; gentlest

9 Gay steed with spurs did prick, the good Sir Mordant was.

prick > spur; _hence:_ ride

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Was, (ay the while, that he is not so now)
2 My Lord my loue; my deare Lord, my deare loue,
So long as heauens iust with equall +brow,+
4 Vouchsafed to behold vs from aboue,
One day when him high courage did emmoue,
6 As wont ye knights to seeke aduentures wilde,
He pri