2 Your fruitful offspring, shall from you descend; 3 Brave captains, and most mighty warriors, 4 That shall their conquests through all lands extend 5 And their decayed kingdoms shall amend:
amend > repair, restore
6 The feeble Britons, broken with long war, 7 They shall uprear, and mightily defend 8 Against their foreign foe, that comes from far,
their foreign foe > [the Spanish; or Roman Catholics in general]
9 Till universal peace compound all civil jar.
compound > settle jar > discord
303.24
It was not, Britomart, thy wandring eye,
2 Glauncing vnwares in charmed looking glas,
But the streight course of heauenly destiny,
4 Led with eternall prouidence, that has
Guided thy glaunce, to bring his will to pas:
6 Ne is thy fate, ne is thy fortune ill,
To loue the prowest knight, that euer was.
8 Therefore submit thy wayes vnto his will,
And do by all dew meanes thy destiny fulfill.
1 "It was not, Britomart, your wandering eye, 2 Glancing unwares in charmed looking-glass,
unwares > unwittingly looking-glass > magic glass, crystal ball