3 Most virtuous virgin, born of heavenly birth, 4 That, to redeem your woeful parents' head head > position of command, _hence:_ rule 5 From tyrant's rage and ever-dying dread, ever-dying dread > [continual fear of death; fear of eternal death] 6 Have wandered through the world now long a day; long a > [for many a long] 7 Yet cease not your weary soles to lead, 8 What grace has you now hither brought this way? 9 Or do your feeble feet unweeting hither stray? unweeting > unwittingly 110.10 Strange thing it is an errant knight to see 2 Here in this place, or any other wight, That hither turnes his steps. So few there bee, 4 That +chose+ the narrow path, or seeke the right: All keepe the broad high way, and take delight 6 With many rather for to go astray, And be partakers of their euill plight, 8 Then with a few to walke the rightest way; O foolish men, why haste ye to your owne decay? 4 chose > chuse _1609_ 1 "Strange thing it is an errant knight to see errant > itinerant (a "knight errant" roamed in quest of adventure; the word-order here also implies the sense of erring, deviating, etc.) 2 Here in this place, or any other wight, wight > person, man 3 That hither turns his steps. So few there be 4 That choose the narrow path, or seek the right: 5 All keep the broad highway, and take delight broad highway > (Cf. 104.2:8, 207.21:3) 6 With many rather to go astray, 7 And be partakers of their evil plight, 8 Than with a few to walk the rightest way; 9 O foolish men, why hasten you to your own decay?" decay > downfall, destruction 110.11 Thy selfe to see, and tyred limbs to rest, 2 O matrone sage (quoth she) I hither came, And this good knight his way with me addrest, 4 Led with thy prayses and broad-blazed fame, That vp to heauen is blowne. The auncient Dame, 6 Him goodly greeted in her modest guise, And entertaynd them both, as best became, 8 With all the court'sies, that she could deuise, Ne wanted ought, to shew her bounteous or wise. 1 "Yourself to see, and tired limbs to rest, 2 O matron sage," quoth she, "I hither came, 3 And this good knight his way with me addressed, addressed > directed; _also:_ set to rights, made straight (for Caelia has just described him as "errant") 4 Led with your praises and broad-blazed fame, 5 That up to heaven is blown." The ancient dame 6 Him goodly greeted in her modest guise, goodly > courteously guise > manner 7 And entertained them both, as best became, best became > was most fitting 8 With all the courtesies that she could devise, 9 Nor wanted aught to show her bounteous or wise. bounteous > {Full of goodness; beneficent} 110.12