clownish > clumsy, peasant's shook > wielded
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Which outrage when those gentle knights did see,
2 Full of great enuie and fell gealosy,
They stayd not to auise, who first should bee,
4 But all spurd after fast, as they mote fly,
To reskew her from shamefull villany.
6 The Prince and Guyon equally byliue
Her selfe pursewd, in hope to win thereby
8 Most goodly meede, the fairest Dame aliue:
But after the foule foster Timias did striue.
1 Which outrage when those gentle knights did see,
gentle > noble; courteous
2 Full of great envy and fell jealousy,
envy > enthusiasm; or, perhaps: malice [directed at the foster] fell > terrible, fierce jealousy > eagerness to serve; anger, indignation
3 They stayed not to advise who first should be,
advise > consider (a key word in Book II)
4 But all spurred after, fast as they might fly,