4 Nor voice sound mortal), I avow to you, 5 Such wounded beast, as that, I did not see, 6 Sith erst into this forest wild I came.
Sith erst > Since first
7 But might Your Goodlihead forgive it me
Your Goodlihead > Your Goodliness; Your Excellency
8 To weet which of the gods I shall you name,
weet > learn
9 That to you due worship I may rightly frame?"
That > [So that] frame > fashion, give shape to; hence: offer, address
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To whom she thus; but ere her words ensewed,
2 Vnto the bush her eye did suddein glaunce,
In which vaine Braggadocchio was mewed,
4 And saw it stirre: she left her percing launce,
And towards gan a deadly shaft aduaunce,
6 In mind to marke the beast. At which sad stowre,
Trompart forth stept, to stay the mortall chaunce,
8 Out crying, {o^} what euer heauenly powre,
Or earthly wight thou be, withhold this deadly howre.