7 So that needs love or death must be your lot,
needs > of necessity, perforce
8 Then I avow to you, by wrong or right
avow > vow, take a vow
9 To compass your desire, and find that loved knight."
compass > accomplish, attain
302.47
Her chearefull words much cheard the feeble spright
2 Of the sicke virgin, that her downe she layd
In her warme bed to sleepe, if that she might;
4 And the old-woman carefully displayd
The clothes about her round with busie ayd;
6 So that at last a little creeping sleepe
Surprisd her sense: She therewith well apayd,
8 The drunken lampe downe in the oyle did steepe,
And set her by to watch, and set her by to weepe.
1 Her cheerful words much cheered the feeble spirit 2 Of the sick virgin, that her down she laid
that > [so that]