mail > chain armour
9 The iron walls to ward their blows are weak and frail.
iron walls > [of their armour]
105.7
The Sarazin was stout, and wondrous strong,
2 And heaped blowes like yron hammers great:
For after bloud and vengeance he did long.
4 The knight was fiers, and full of youthly heat:
And doubled strokes, like dreaded thunders threat:
6 For all for prayse and honour he did fight.
Both stricken strike, and beaten both do beat,
8 That from their shields forth flyeth firie light,
And +helmets hewen+ deepe, shew marks of eithers might.
9 helmets hewen > hewen helmets 1590
1 The Saracen was stout, and wondrous strong,
stout > robust; proud; bold, brave
2 And heaped blows like iron hammers great: 3 For after blood and vengeance he did long. 4 The knight was fierce, and full of youthly heat: 5 And doubled strokes, like dreaded thunder's threat:
doubled > (Vb.)