rude > rough, clumsy, simple; uneducated rugged > coarse, unrefined
7 When in so high an object they do light,
light > shine, give light, hence: have their poetic existence; or: alight, hence: find their place
8 And striving, fit to make, I fear do mar: 9 Yourself your praises tell, and make them known far.
tell > disclose, reveal; hence: make self-evident
302.4
She trauelling with +Guyon+ by the way,
2 Of sundry things faire purpose gan to find,
T'abridg their iourney long, and lingring day;
4 Mongst which it fell into that Faeries mind,
To aske this Briton Mayd, what vncouth wind,
6 Brought her into those parts, and what inquest
Made her dissemble her disguised kind:
8 Faire Lady she him seemed, like Lady drest,
But fairest knight aliue, when armed was her brest.
1 Guyon > Redcrosse sugg. Todd (see 302.16:8). That this character is described at 302.4:4 as having a "Faeries mind" seems to indicate that Spenser really does confuse here the Redcross Knight with the hero of the book just finished. However, it must be said that the Redcross Knight is loosely identified as a Faery throughout Book I
1 She, travelling with Redcross by the way,
Redcross > ("Guyon" is plainly an error: see Textual Appendix)