3 "Certes, madam, you have great cause of plaint,
Certes > Assuredly plaint > lamentation; complaint
4 That stoutest heart, I ween, could cause to quake.
That > [The; That the; or, perhaps: That cause of plaint the] ween > think
5 But be of cheer, and comfort to you take: 6 For till I have acquitted your captive knight,
acquitted > delivered, freed
7 Assure yourself, I will you not forsake." 8 His cheerful words revived her cheerless spirit, 9 So forth they went, the dwarf them guiding ever right.
CANTO VIII
1 Faire virgin to redeeme her deare 2 brings Arthur to the fight: 3 Who slayes +the Gyant+, wounds the beast, 4 and strips Duessa quight.
3 the Gyant > that Gyaunt 1590 etc.: FE