2. fosters: foresters

4. sownd: swoon

3. variable kindes: various natures

5. clay: the flesh of the body

5. accident: event or disaster

5. aghast: frightened

7. whether: whither

8. sore he swat: he sweated profusely

1. out of hart: utterly discouraged

2. ill mote I stay: I may not well pause

5. sway: dominion

6. accompt: esteem

9. out of hand: immediately

1. mister wight: sort of person

9. trow: trust

4. tho: then

5. foregoe: go on before

5. maulgre: literally, ill favor (mal +gree), but used by Spenser as an interjection meaning, roughly, ‘curses!’

6. attone: at once

9. errour straunge: uncommon wandering

2. bountiest: ‘most bounteous’, i.e. most full of goodness

4. inuent: come upon, discover

3. rowme: place

4. magnifide: praised

9. nill: ne will, i.e. will not

8. tride: found

5. at the least: at last

3. cast: decided

1. sad: causing sorrow

2. byliue: promptly

3. vneath: not easy

6. algates: in any case

6. for thy: therefore

9. let: bar

8. restore: restitution

3. habericon: habergeon

3. forkehead: an arrow (‘dart’) with a barbed head

8. sease: take possession of

9. disease: difficulty, distress

7. thrill: pierce

8. empight: implanted

2. mickle: great

5. strayne: grip

8. thrilled with the throw: pierced by the thrust

7. blin: cease

1. auiz’d: noticed

5. Pannikell: skull

9. ferme: probably ‘enclosure’, from Frfermerto close

3. as that: as one who

8. raught: reached

2. ouerhent: overtook

7. Continent: ground

7. engor’d: deeply wounded; steeped in blood

4. humor: moisture (Timias’s eyes are glazing over)

7. stownd: ordeal; trance

4. Besides all hope: without hope

5. cast: resolved

9. burganet: helmet

1. st. 32-33These stanzas are based on Ariosto, OF 16-19 (see st. 27-54n).

3. intendiment: understanding

1. soueraine: surpassingly effective

1. marbles plaine: flat slabs of marble

2. bruze: grind into pieces

4. scruze: squeeze

5. well it vze: employ (the medicine) to best advantage

6. suppled and did steepe: softened by bathing (as she applies the juice to the flesh surrounding the wound)

8. intuse: bruise, a nonce-usage based on Lintusumbruised

1. recur’d: recovered

5. hopelesse remedies: remedies for what seems hopeless

9. gilden: golden

4. safety: trisyllabic

5. ryu’d: pierced

8. pumy: pumice

4. readie wound: wound that has been prepared for new dressing

6. guarish: cure (probably picked up from Caxton)

7. dolour: suffering

7. redrest: remedied

8. reduced: restored

8. duraunce: imprisonment

9. aleggeaunce: allegeance: in ME usage, relief or alleviation

5. playsters: bandages

9. releast: delivered

5. celestiall hew: heavenly appearance

2. quight: requite

2. deathes: disyllabic

1. warreid: waged war

7. blast: shrivel

8. leuin: lightning

7. enuy: deny

5. enrace: plant

8. spyre: sprout

9. complement: fulfillment or completion