weet > know, find out 4 There many minstrels make melody, minstrels > musicians 5 To drive away the dull melancholy, 6 And many bards, that to the trembling chord bards > singers 7 Can tune their timely voices cunningly, Can > Did; knew how to timely > {Measured; keeping time with the music} 8 And many chroniclers, that can record chroniclers > writers of epics can > can, knew how to 9 Old loves, and wars for ladies done by many a lord. 105.4 Soone after comes the cruell Sarazin, 2 In wouen maile all armed warily, And sternly lookes at him, who not a pin 4 Does care for looke of liuing creatures eye. They bring them wines of _Greece_ and _Araby_, 6 And daintie spices fetcht from furthest _Ynd_, To kindle heat of corage priuily: 8 And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd T'obserue the sacred lawes of armes, that are assynd. 1 Soon after comes the cruel Saracen, Saracen > {Arab or Moslem of the time of the Crusades; pagan} 2 In woven mail all armed warily, mail > chain armour warily > carefully 3 And sternly looks at him, who not a pin sternly > fiercely 4 Does care for look of living creature's eye. 5 They bring them wines of Greece and Arabia, 6 And dainty spices fetched from furthest Ind, dainty > precious Ind > India 7 To kindle heat of courage privily: privily > inwardly 8 And in the wine a solemn oath they bind, 9 To observe the sacred laws of arms, that are assigned. 105.5 At last forth comes that far renowmed Queene, 2 With royall pomp and Princely maiestie; She is ybrought vnto a paled greene, 4 And placed vnder stately canapee, The warlike feates of both those knights to see. 6 On th'other side in all mens open vew _Duessa_ placed is, and on a tree 8 _Sans-foy_ his shield is hangd with bloudy hew: Both those the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 1 At last forth comes that far renowned queen, 2 With royal pomp and princely majesty; 3 She is brought to a paled green, paled > {Fenced, surrounded with palings} 4 And placed under stately canopy, 5 The warlike feats of both those knights to see. 6 On the other side in all men's open view 7 Duessa placed is, and on a tree 8 Sansfoy his shield is hung with bloody hue: Sansfoy his > Sansfoy's with bloody hue > [with its bloodstains] 9 Both those the laurel garlands to the victor due. 105.6 A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye, 2 And vnto battaill bad them selues addresse: Their shining shieldes about their +wrestes+ they tye, 4 And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heauinesse: 6 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse 8 Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weake and fraile. 3 wrestes > wrists _1609_