5 Nothing but death can do me to respire!"
do > cause; hence: permit respire > find relief (cf. 303.36:8)
6 "Ah be it," said he, "from Pyrochles far 7 After pursuing Death once to require,
require > {"Require after" = "seek", "call"}
8 Or think that aught those puissant hands may mar:
aught > anything at all puissant > powerful, warlike mar > damage morally
9 Death is for wretches born under unhappy star."
unhappy > evil, inauspicious
206.45
Perdie, then +is it+ fit for me (said he)
2 That am, I weene, most wretched man aliue,
+Burning+ in flames, yet no flames can I see,
4 And dying daily, daily yet reuiue:
O Atin, helpe to me last death to giue.
6 The varlet at his plaint was grieued so sore,
That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue,
8 And his owne health remembring now no more,
Did follow that ensample, which he blam'd afore.