Frail > weak; morally weak
5 Now in the blossom of his freshest age: 6 He reared him up, and loosed his iron bonds,
iron > [wire: see 307.37:8]
7 And after gan inquire his parentage,
gan inquire > did ask about
8 And how he fell into that giant's hands, 9 And who that was, who chased her along the lands.
lands > land, landscape (contrived for the rhyme)
307.47
Then trembling yet through feare, the Squire bespake,
2 That Geauntesse Argante is behight,
A daughter of the Titans which did make
4 Warre against heauen, and heaped hils on hight,
To scale the skyes, and put Ioue from his right:
6 Her sire Typh{oe}us was, who mad through merth,
And drunke with bloud of men, slaine by his might,
8 Through incest, her of his owne mother Earth
Whilome begot, being but halfe twin of that berth.
1 Then, trembling yet through fear, the squire bespoke,