be > [are]

7 And foes of life) she better can restrain;

better > [more easily]

8 Yet virtue vaunts in both their victories,

vaunts > displays [itself]; advances [itself, its cause; the last only if "vaunts" is taken to be aphetic for "avaunts">[ both their victories > [the victories of continence over both sweetness and wrath]

9 And Guyon in them all shows goodly mastery.

all > [both]

206.2

Whom bold Cymochles trauelling to find,
2 With cruell purpose bent to wreake on him
The wrath, which Atin kindled in his mind,
4 Came to a riuer, by whose vtmost brim
Wayting to passe, he saw whereas did swim
6 A long the shore, as swift as glaunce of eye,
A litle Gondelay, bedecked trim
8 With boughes and arbours wouen cunningly,
That like a litle forrest seemed outwardly.

1 Whom bold Cymochles travelling to find 2 (With cruel purpose bent to wreak on him 3 The wrath which Atin kindled in his mind), 4 Came to a river, by whose utmost brim,