3 And then, with words and weeds of wondrous might,
weeds > herbs, drugs
4 On them she works her will to uses bad: 5 My liefest lord she thus beguiled had;
liefest > dearest
6 (For he was flesh: all flesh does frailty breed)
frailty > weakness; moral weakness
7 Whom when I heard to been so ill-bestad,
been > [have been] ill-bestad > badly beset, assailed (SUS)
8 Weak wretch, I wrapped myself in palmer's weed,
Weak wretch > (Referring to herself) palmer > {Pilgrim who has returned from the Holy Land, carrying a palm-leaf or palm-branch as a token; also: an itinerant monk} weed > attire, habit