his > [the brave spirit's]

3 Nor suffers it thought of ungentleness

ungentleness > discourtesy; ignobility

4 Ever to creep into his noble breast, 5 But to the highest and the worthiest 6 Lifts it up, that else would lowly fall:

it > [his free thought] else > otherwise

7 It lets not fall, it lets it not to rest: 8 It lets not scarce this prince to breathe at all,

scarce this prince > [this prince scarcely]

9 But to his first pursuit him forward still does call.

305.3

Who long time wandred through the forrest wyde,
2 To finde some issue thence, till +that at+ last
He met a Dwarfe, that seemed terrifyde
4 With some late perill, which he hardly past,
Or other accident, which him aghast;
6 Of whom he asked, whence he lately came,
And whither now he trauelled so fast:
8 For sore he swat, and running through that same
Thicke forest, was bescratcht, and both his feet nigh lame.