despite > malice; defiance; anger
8 Let later age that noble use envy,
use > custom envy > wish for itself (without any particular sense of malevolence), hence: emulate
9 Vile rancour to avoid, and cruel surquidry.
surquidry > arrogance
301.14
Long they thus trauelled in friendly wise,
2 Through countries waste, and eke well edifyde,
Seeking aduentures hard, to exercise
4 Their puissance, whylome full dernely tryde:
At length they came into a forrest wyde,
6 Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound
Full griesly seem'd: Therein they long did ryde,
8 Yet tract of liuing +creatures+ none they found,
Saue Beares, Lions, and Buls, which romed them around.
8 creatures > creature 1590
1 Long they thus travelled in friendly wise,
wise > fashion