2 When rancour does with rage him once engore,

once > [once and for all, finally] engore > gore, wound deeply; hence: infuriate

3 Forgets with wary ward them to await,

ward > guard await > [keep watch for]

4 But with his dreadful horns them drives afore, 5 Or flings aloft, or treads down in the floor,

floor > ground (catachresis prompted by the rhyme)

6 Breathing out wrath, and bellowing disdain,

disdain > wrath

7 That all the forest quakes to hear him roar:

That > [So that]