amours > love-making
5 The mighty martial hands do most commend; 6 Of love they ever greater glory bore, 7 Than of their arms: Mars is Cupid's friend,
Mars > (The adulterous lover of Venus)
8 And is for Venus' loves renowned more 9 Than all his wars and spoils, which he did of yore."
spoil > {Pillage, rapine; also: the act of spoiling or damaging} of yore > of old, formerly
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Therewith she sweetly smyld. They though full +bent,+
2 To proue extremities of bloudie fight,
Yet at her speach their rages gan relent,
4 And calme the sea of their tempestuous spight,
Such powre haue pleasing words: such is the might
6 Of courteous clemencie in gentle hart.
Now after all was ceast, the Faery knight
8 Besought that Damzell suffer him depart,
And yield him readie passage to that other part.
1 bent, > bent 1609
1 Therewith she sweetly smiled. They, though full bent
Therewith > With that; thereupon full bent > exceedingly inclined