1 "If ever love of lady did empierce
empierce > penetrate
2 Your iron breasts, or pity could find place, 3 Withhold your bloody hands from battle fierce, 4 And sith for me you fight, to me this grace
sith > since grace > favour
5 Both yield, to stay your deadly strife a space."
stay > delay, hold back
6 They stayed a while: and forth she gan proceed:
gan > did; began to
7 "Most wretched woman, and of wicked race, 8 That am the author of this heinous deed, 9 And cause of death between two doughty knights do breed.
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