gest > exploits
8 Who to these ladies love did countenance,
countenance > make a show of; pretend
9 And to his mistress each himself strove to advance.
202.17
He that made loue vnto the eldest Dame,
2 Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man;
Yet not so good of deedes, as great of name,
4 Which he by many rash aduentures wan,
Since errant armes to sew he first began;
6 More huge in strength, then wise in workes he was,
And reason with foole-hardize ouer ran;
8 Sterne melancholy did his courage pas,
And was for terrour more, all armd in shyning bras.
1 He that made love to the eldest dame 2 Was hight Sir Huddibras, a hardy man;
hight > called Huddibras > (A name catalogued by Spenser in his roll of British kings at 210.25:4. Glossed by Roche (1978) as "Rashness"; Hamilton (1980) speculates on "Hardi-bras", "Foolhardiness"; this might also be interpreted as "One Who Chances His Arm". The name "Hudibras" was used by Samuel Butler for his satire of that name published in 1662, but according to the Grub Street Journal (1731), Butler derived the name from that of Hugh de Bras, the patron saint of Cornwall)
3 Yet not so good of deeds, as great of name,
name > reputation, fame