do > [are you doing]
7 Unfitly furnished with your bag and book, 8 Where I expected one with shield and spear, 9 To prove some deeds of arms upon an equal peer?"
prove > try peer > peer, rival; nobleman
310.25
The wretched man at his imperious speach,
2 Was all abasht, and low prostrating, said;
Good Sir, let not my +rudenesse+ be no breach
4 Vnto your patience, ne be ill ypaid;
For I vnwares this way by fortune straid,
6 A silly Pilgrim driuen to distresse,
That seeke a Lady, There he suddein staid,
8 And did the rest with grieuous sighes suppresse,
While teares stood in his eies, few drops of bitternesse.
3 rudenesse > rudedesse 1596
1 The wretched man at his imperious speech 2 Was all abashed and, low prostrating, said:
prostrating > [prostrating himself]
3 "Good sir, let not my rudeness be no breach
no > (The double negative is intensive)