4 That cruel element, which all things fear, 5 Nor none can suffer to approach near:
suffer > bear
6 And, turning back to Scudamour, thus said: 7 "What monstrous enmity provoke we here,
provoke > challenge, defy; provoke
8 Foolhardy as the Earth's children, who made
Foolhardy > [As foolhardy] the Earth's children > (The Giants, the vast beings which, sprung from the blood that fell from Uranus on Ge (the Earth), piled Mount Ossa on Mount Pelion in order to launch an unsuccessful attack on Olympus, abode of the gods)
9 Battle against the gods? So we a god invade.
a god > [Vulcan]
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Daunger without discretion to attempt,
2 Inglorious and beastlike is: therefore Sir knight,
Aread what course of you is safest dempt,
4 And how we with our foe may come to fight.
This +is+ (quoth he) the dolorous despight,
6 Which earst to you I playnd: for neither may
This fire be quencht by any wit or might,
8 Ne yet by any meanes remou'd away,
So mighty be th'enchauntments, which the same do stay.