Natheless > Nevertheless sell > saddle

4 For well of yore he learned had to ride,

yore > old

5 But, full of anger, fiercely to him cried: 6 "False traitor miscreant, you broken have

miscreant > unbeliever, infidel; villain; wretch

7 The law of arms, to strike foe undefied! 8 But you your treason's fruit, I hope, shall taste 9 Right sour, and feel the law which you have defaced."

Right > Very defaced > defamed; hence: brought ignominy upon

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With that his balefull +speare,+ he fiercely bent
2 Against the Pagans brest, and therewith thought
His cursed life out of her lodge haue rent:
4 But ere the point arriued, where it ought,
That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought
6 He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound:
Through all those foldes the steelehead passage wrought
8 And through his shoulder pierst; wherwith to ground
He groueling fell, all gored in his gushing wound.

1 speare, > speare 1609