5 Yet she, with pithy words and counsel sad,
pithy > significant, full of meaning sad > grave
6 Still strove their stubborn rages to revoke,
revoke > restrain
7 That at the last, suppressing fury mad,
That > [So that]
8 They gan abstain from dint of direful stroke,
gan > did dint > [the dealing of blows; the force] direful > dreadful, terrible stroke > (Collectively)
9 And hearken to the sober speeches which she spoke.
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