9 This luckless child, whom thus you see with blood defiled.
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Him fortuned (hard fortune ye may ghesse)
2 To come, where vile Acrasia does wonne,
Acrasia a false enchaunteresse,
4 That many errant knights hath foule fordonne:
Within a wandring Island, that doth ronne
6 And stray in perilous gulfe, her dwelling is,
Faire Sir, if euer there ye trauell, shonne
8 The cursed land where many wend amis,
And know it by the name; it hight the Bowre of blis.
1 "Him fortuned (hard fortune you may guess)
fortuned > [it fortuned]
2 To come where vile Acrasia does won,
Acrasia > (Medieval Latin word signifying "incontinence", "unchastity", "absence of self restraint") won > dwell
3 Acrasia, a false enchantress 4 That many errant knights has foul fordone:
errant > itinerant (a "knight errant" roamed in quest of adventure; the word-order here also implies the sense of erring, deviating, etc.) fordone > utterly ruined; destroyed
5 Within a wandering island, that does run