1 spoke > spake 1609
1 Thus as he spoke, lo with outrageous cry
outrageous cry > intemperate yelling
2 A thousand villeins round about them swarmed
villeins > villains; serfs
3 Out of the rocks and caves adjoining nigh, 4 Vile caitiff wretches, ragged, rude, deformed,
Vile > Despicable caitiff > servile, wretched rude > uncivilized deformed > deformed; perverted; befouled
5 All threatening death, all in strange manner armed, 6 Some with unwieldy clubs, some with long spears, 7 Some rusty knives, some staves in fire warmed.
rusty > rusty; blood-stained knives> knives; swords warmed > part-burnt (in order to harden the points)
8 Stern was their look, like wild amazed steers,