1 A shrilling trumpet sounded from on high, 2 And to battle bade themselves address: 3 Their shining shields about their wrists they tie, 4 And burning blades about their heads do bless, bless > brandish 5 The instruments of wrath and heaviness: heaviness > anger; grief 6 With greedy force each other does assail, greedy > eager; insensate, reckless 7 And strike so fiercely, that they do impress 8 Deep dented furrows in the battered mail; mail > chain armour 9 The iron walls to ward their blows are weak and frail. iron walls > [of their armour] 105.7 The Sarazin was stout, and wondrous strong, 2 And heaped blowes like yron hammers great: For after bloud and vengeance he did long. 4 The knight was fiers, and full of youthly heat: And doubled strokes, like dreaded thunders threat: 6 For all for prayse and honour he did fight. Both stricken strike, and beaten both do beat, 8 That from their shields forth flyeth firie light, And +helmets hewen+ deepe, shew marks of eithers might. 9 helmets hewen > hewen helmets _1590_ 1 The Saracen was stout, and wondrous strong, stout > robust; proud; bold, brave 2 And heaped blows like iron hammers great: 3 For after blood and vengeance he did long. 4 The knight was fierce, and full of youthly heat: 5 And doubled strokes, like dreaded thunder's threat: doubled > (Vb.) 6 For all for praise and honour he did fight. 7 Both stricken strike, and beaten both do beat, 8 That from their shields forth flies fiery light, That > [So that] 9 And helmets hewed deep show marks of either's might. deep > deeply 105.8 So th'one for wrong, the other striues for right: 2 As when a Gryfon seized of his pray, A Dragon fiers encountreth in his flight, 4 Through widest ayre making his ydle way, That would his rightfull rauine rend away: 6 With hideous horrour both together smight, And souce so sore, that they the heauens affray: 8 The wise Southsayer seeing so sad sight, Th'amazed vulgar tels of warres and mortall fight. 1 So the one for wrong, the other strives for right: 2 As when a griffin, seized of his prey, griffin > {Monster with the body of a lion and head and wings of an eagle} seized > in rightful possession 3 A dragon fierce encounters in his flight, 4 Through widest air making his idle way, 5 That would his rightful ravin rend away: That > [The dragon] ravin > plunder, prey 6 With hideous horror both together smite, hideous > abominable; terrific; immense 7 And souse so sore that they the heavens affray: souse > strike heavy blows; _perhaps also:_ swoop (as a hawk on its prey) affray > terrify 8 The wise soothsayer, seeing so sad sight, sad > calamitous, ominous [a] 9 The amazed vulgar tells of wars and mortal fight. vulgar > common people mortal > deadly, lethal 105.9