ruth > pity; also: trouble
6 Nor let your stout heart melt in pity vain:
stout > brave; proud; resolute vain > empty, futile
7 He that his sorrow sought through wilfulness, 8 And his foe fettered would release again,
foe fettered > [fettered foe]
9 Deserves to taste his follies' fruit, repented pain."
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Guyon obayd; So him away he drew
2 From needlesse trouble of renewing fight
Already fought, his voyage to pursew.
4 But rash Pyrochles varlet, Atin hight,
When late he saw his Lord in heauy plight,
6 Vnder Sir Guyons puissaunt stroke to fall,
Him deeming dead, as then he seemd in sight,
8 Fled fast away, to tell his funerall
Vnto his brother, whom Cymochles men did call.
1 Guyon obeyed; so him away he drew 2 From needless trouble of renewing fight 3 Already fought, his voyage to pursue.
voyage > journey