challenged essoin > claimed exemption (another legal term)
4 For contemplation's sake: yet otherwise 5 His life he led in lawless riotise,
riotise > indulgence, dissipation
6 By which he grew to grievous malady; 7 For in his lustless limbs, through evil guise,
lustless > {Listless; joyless, lacking pleasure or delight} guise > mode of life
8 A shaking fever reigned continually: 9 Such one was Idleness, first of this company.
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And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony,
2 Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne,
His belly was vp-blowne with luxury,
4 And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne,
And like a Crane his necke was long and fyne,
6 With which he swallowd vp excessiue feast,
For want whereof poore people oft did pyne;
8 And all the way, most like a brutish beast,
He spued vp his gorge, that all did him deteast.
1 And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, 2 Deformed creature, on a filthy swine; 3 His belly was up-blown with luxury,
up-blown > swollen luxury > surfeit, excess; dissipation