9 And with blasphemous bans high God in pieces tore.
bans > curses, imprecations
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She caught in hand an huge great yron mace,
2 Wherewith she many had of life depriued,
But ere the stroke could seize his aymed place,
4 His speare amids her sun-broad shield arriued;
Yet nathemore the steele a sunder riued,
6 All were the beame in bignesse like a mast,
Ne her out of the stedfast sadle driued,
8 But glauncing on the tempred mettall, brast
In thousand shiuers, and so forth beside her past.
1 She caught in hand a huge great iron mace, 2 Wherewith she many had of life deprived,
Wherewith > With which
3 But, ere the stroke could seize its aimed place,
seize > take possession of; fasten upon (latter is SUS)
4 His spear amidst her sun-broad shield arrived:
amidst > in the middle of