7 So have you oft with guile your honour blended;
blended > blended, mingled, stirred up; hence: rendered turbid, spoiled
8 But little may such guile you now avail, 9 If wonted force and fortune do not much me fail."
wonted > accustomed, customary
205.6
With that he drew his flaming sword, and strooke
2 At him so fiercely, that the vpper marge
Of his seuenfolded shield away it tooke,
4 And glauncing on his helmet, made a large
And open gash therein: were not his targe,
6 That broke the violence of his intent,
The weary soule from thence it would discharge;
8 Nathelesse so sore a buff to him it lent,
That made him reele, and to his brest his beuer bent.
1 With that he drew his flaming sword, and struck 2 At him so fiercely that the upper marge
marge > margin
3 Of his sevenfold shield away it took,
sevenfold > seven-layered (cf. 203.1:9)