1 Vain Braggadocchio, getting Guyon's
Vain > Weak; foolish Braggadocchio > "Braggart", "Boaster" ("brag" + Italian augment- ative. The name gives rise to "braggadocio", a general term either for an idle braggart or for his boasting. Spenser's spelling varies, so "Braggadocchio", the first encountered, is here used as the standard)
2 horse, is made the scorn 3 Of knighthood true, and is of fair
of > by
4 Belphoebe foul forlorn.
Belphoebe > "Beautifully Radiant", "Beautiful and Pure" (Latin and Greek; foster-daughter of Diana or Phoebe, virgin goddess of hunting and the moon (see 306.28:5). For correspondence to Elizabeth, see I:118-24) foul > insultingly forlorn > abandoned, deserted; hence: rejected
203.1
SOone as the morrow faire with purple beames
2 Disperst the shadowes of the mistie night,
And Titan playing on the eastern streames,
4 Gan cleare the deawy ayre with springing light,
Sir Guyon mindfull of his vow yplight,
6 Vprose from drowsie couch, and him addrest
Vnto the iourney which he had behight:
8 His puissaunt armes about his noble brest,
And many-folded shield he bound about his wrest.
1 Soon as the morrow fair with purple beams
Soon > [As soon]