souse > swoop, stoop (cf. 105.8:7) full near > [very nearly, by very little]
8 Remounts again into the open air, 9 And to better fortune does herself prepare.
211.37
So braue returning, with his brandisht blade,
2 He to the Carle himselfe againe addrest,
And strooke at him so sternely, that he made
4 An open passage through his riuen brest,
That halfe the steele behind his back did rest;
6 Which drawing backe, he looked euermore
When the hart bloud should gush out of his chest,
8 Or his dead corse should fall vpon the flore;
But his dead corse vpon the flore fell nathemore.
1 So brave returning, with his brandished blade, 2 He to the carl himself again addressed,
carl > villain, churl
3 And struck at him so sternly, that he made
sternly > fiercely, mercilessly
4 An open passage through his riven breast,
riven > split, torn open