5 Yet stooped he not, but lay still in the wind,
stooped > swooped, dived for the kill (a term in falconry)
6 Waiting advantage on the pray to seize;
advantage > [a] time of advantage, [an] occasion, [an] opportunity
7 Till Trompart, lowly to the ground inclined, 8 Besought him his great courage to appease,
courage > wrath; spirit
9 And pardon simple man, that rash did him displease.
simple > [a] humble
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Bigge looking like a doughtie Doucepere,
2 At last he thus; Thou clod of vilest clay,
I pardon yield, +and with+ thy rudenesse beare;
4 But weete henceforth, that all that golden pray,
And all that else the vaine world vaunten may,
6 I loath as doung, ne deeme my dew reward:
Fame is my meed, and glory +vertues+ +pray+.
8 But minds of mortall men are muchell mard,
And mou'd amisse with massie mucks vnmeet regard.