3 Nor shall avail the wicked sorcery 4 Of false Pellitus, his purposes to break, 5 But him shall slay, and on a gallows bleak 6 Shall give the enchanter his unhappy hire;
hire > reward
7 Then shall the Britons, late dismayed and weak,
dismayed > defeated
8 From their long vassalage begin to respire,
respire > take relief; recover [hope, courage]; resurface to breathe
9 And on their paynim foes avenge their rankled ire.
paynim > pagan
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Ne shall he yet his wrath so mitigate,
2 Till both the sonnes of Edwin he haue slaine,
Offricke and Osricke, twinnes vnfortunate,
4 Both slaine in battell vpon Layburne plaine,
Together with the king of Louthiane,
6 Hight Adin, and the king of Orkeny,
Both ioynt partakers of +their+ fatall paine:
8 But Penda, fearefull of like desteny,
Shall yield him selfe his liegeman, and sweare fealty.