5 And finds due effect +or+ soon or late.

effect > accomplishment; reality or > either

6 So feeble is the power of fleshly arm.

So > Thus, to this extent

7 His mother bade him women's love to hate, 8 For she of woman's force did fear no harm;

force > [physical force, violence]

9 So weening to have armed him, she did quite disarm.

weening > supposing, imagining quite > [him quite]

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This was that woman, this that deadly wound,
2 That Proteus prophecide should him dismay,
The which his mother vainely did expound,
4 To be hart-wounding loue, which should assay
To bring her sonne vnto his last decay.
6 So tickle be the termes of mortall state,
And full of subtile sophismes, which do play
8 With double senses, and with false debate,
T'approue the vnknowen purpose of eternall fate.