2 For sorrows past; their grief is with them gone: 3 Nor yet of present peril be afraid; 4 For needless fear did never vantage none, vantage > profit, benefit none > anyone 5 And helpless hap it boots not to moan. helpless hap it boots not to moan > [it is of no avail to bemoan an unavoidable occurrence] 6 Dead is Sansfoy, his vital pains are past, vital > [of life, worldly] 7 Though grieved ghost for vengeance deep do groan: grieved > [his] injured 8 He lives, that shall him pay his duties last, He > [The Redcross Knight] duties > debts 9 And guilty Elfin blood shall sacrifice in haste." 104.50 O but I feare the fickle freakes (quoth shee) 2 Of fortune +false+, and oddes of armes in field. Why dame (quoth he) what oddes can euer bee, 4 Where both do fight alike, to win or yield? Yea but (quoth she) he beares a charmed shield, 6 And eke enchaunted armes, that none can perce, Ne none can wound the man, that does them wield. 8 Charmd or enchaunted (answerd he then ferce) I no whit reck, ne you the like need to reherce. 2 false > salse _1596_ 1 "O but I fear the fickle freaks," quoth she, freaks > whims 2 "Of Fortune false, and odds of arms in field." odds > differences, inequalities field > battle, the field of battle 3 "Why, dame," quoth he, "what odds can ever be, 4 Where both do fight alike, to win or yield?" alike > [in equal lists: see 104.40:9] 5 "Yes, but," quoth she, "he bears a charmed shield, 6 And eke enchanted arms, that none can pierce, eke > moreover 7 Nor none can wound the man that does them wield." none can > can anyone 8 "Charmed or enchanted," answered he then fierce, 9 "I no whit reck; nor you the like need to rehearse. reck > care about, take account of rehearse > give an account of 104.51 But faire _Fidessa_, sithens fortunes guile, 2 Or enimies powre hath now captiued you, Returne from whence ye came, and rest a while 4 Till morrow next, that I the Elfe subdew, And with _Sans-foyes_ dead dowry you endew. 6 Ay me, that is a double death (she said) With proud foes sight my sorrow to renew: 8 Where euer yet I be, my secret aid Shall follow you. So passing forth she him obaid. 1 "But, fair Fidessa, sithens Fortune's guile sithens > since 2 Or enemy's power has now captived you, captived you > taken you captive 3 Return from whence you came, and rest awhile, 4 Till morrow next, that I the Elf subdue, that > when 5 And with Sansfoy's dead dowry you endew." Sansfoy's dead > [dead Sansfoy's] endew > endow; _or:_ endue 6 "Ay me! That is a double death," she said, 7 "With proud foe's sight my sorrow to renew: 8 Wherever yet I be, my secret aid 9 Shall follow you." So, passing forth, she him obeyed. CANTO V _The faithfull knight in equall field 2 subdewes his faithlesse foe, Whom false Duessa saues, and for 4 his cure to hell does goe._