weened > imagined, supposed

2 Was to them done, their entrance to forestall, 3 Till the squire began nigher to approach; 4 And wind his horn under the castle wall,

wind > blow (cf. 108.3-5)

5 That with the noise it shook, as it would fall:

That > [So that] as > [as if]

6 Eftsoons forth looked from the highest spire

Eftsoons > Thereupon; before long

7 The watch, and loud to the knights did call,

watch > sentinel

8 To weet what they so rudely did require.