4. defaced: defeated

4. sory: grievous

5. procur’d: prevailed upon

9. conge: a formal farewell

1. he: Guyon

4. ouerronne: pass quickly over

2. pricked: galloped (to ‘prick’ is to spur one’s horse)

4. couch: stoop

4. three-square: having three equal sides

7. He: the knight, not the Squire

4. sell: saddle

7. crouper: the horse’s hind-quarters

7. toward . . . vntoward: impending . . . unfortunate

4. mightie Science: powerful wisdom

9. hond: action

3. treaty: entreaty, plea

5. embaste: degraded

8. enuy: emulate

2. edifyde: built up

4. dernly: dismally

2. Palfrey: ‘a small saddle horse for a woman’ (OED)

3. foreby: close by

4. cleare: shining

2. foster: forester

4. tyreling Iade: worn-out nag

7. his: the tyreling Jade’s

8. his: the forester’s

9. clownish: coarse, peasant-like

9. bore speare: weapon used to hunt wild boar

6. byliue: eagerly

7. that perlous Pace: dangerous pass

4. edifyde: constructed

8. darrayne: engage in, wage (a Spenserism)

9. mayne: physical force

1. Mainely: with physical force

9. before: from the front

1. at a bay: cornered and unable to flee further—from the chorus of baying cries that signal this final stage of the hunt

2. embost: driven to exhaustion

4. debonayre: gracious

6. approue: commend or sanction; uphold, bear out in trial

7. auentred: risked or chanced

1. frame: structure

2. port: appearance; entrance

5. glee: courtly entertainment

3. purueyance: provisions

9. deuize: guess

7. Beauperes: companions

5. spyes: eyes

5. Dreadfull: filled with dread

8. breede him scath: bring harm upon him

8. transmew: transmute

8. sdeigned: disdained (from Italsdegnare)

9. demeanure: demeanor, in the sense ‘mode of conduct’

6. askaunce: sidelong

9. comely amenaunce: conduct becoming (to a lady)

1. deuize: set forth in detail

5. wine and spiceree: spiced wine

8. vented vp her vmbriere: raised her visor for ventilation

7. heried: exalted

1. Gardante: Looking (Italguardare, to look +-ant, L participial ending)

3. Parlante: Talking (Italparlare)

4. Iocante: Playing (Italgiocare)

5. Basciante: Kissing (Italbasciare)

6. Bacchante: Drinking wine (Bacchante are the female votaries of Bacchus, the god of wine)

7. Noctante: Night (Lnox, noctis)

5. fancy: fantasy

9. entyre: all-engrossing; internal

2. termes: words or expressions; mutual relation between persons; limits or boundaries;

2. open outrage: unconcealed violent passion

2. brust: burst

3. incontinence: lack of self-restraint

4. mistrust: suspect

7. discust: shaken off (from Ldiscutereto shatter)

4. bounty: goodness (Frbonté,Lbonitatem)

1. skill: understand

6. roue: ‘to shoot with arrows at a mark selected at pleasure or at random’ (OED)

5. effort: force, power (Lfors, fortis)

7. purport: outward bearing

1. discouered: disclosed

5. but if: unless

5. short: prompt

6. mote algates: must by all means

7. priefe: proof, i.e. experience

8. malengine: guile

4. sdeigne: disdain

1. she: the Lady

1. flit: fleeting, insubstantial

1. hazardry: gambling with dice

2. kindly: natural

6. despoile: undress

9. assoile: Hamilton 2001 notes that Britomart loosens first her armor and then her her ‘carefull thoughts’, leaving herself vulnerable.

9. assoile: absolve

4. engrieued: filled with pain

5. proou’d: tested

1. easy shifte: careful, delicate movement

2. abrayd: startle from sleep

2. filed: defiled

3. gride: pierce

5. ghastly drerihedd: astonished horror

7. family: household; retinue

3. attons: at once

5. contecke: strife

3. mischiefe could eschew: could avoid harm

5. trade: manner of life