7 Where at his feet, with sorrowful demean
demean > bearing, demeanour
8 And deadly hue, an armed corse did lie,
deadly hue > deathly colour, death-like appearance armed corse > [body clad in armour]
9 In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
read > discerned magnanimity > greatness of mind (cf. 207.9:3)
208.24
Said he then to the Palmer, Reuerend syre,
2 What great misfortune hath betidd this knight?
Or did his life her fatall date expyre,
4 Or did he fall by treason, or by fight?
How euer, sure I rew his pitteous plight.
6 Not one, nor other, (said the Palmer graue)
Hath him befalne, but cloudes of deadly night
8 A while his heauie eylids couer'd haue,
And all his senses drowned in deepe senselesse waue.
1 Said he then to the palmer, "Reverend sire,
sire > {Father; form of address to an elderly or holy man; the original form of "sir"}