adventures > happenings
8 So creeping close, as snake in hidden weeds, 9 Inquires of our states, and of our knightly deeds.
states > circumstances; marital states
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Which when he knew, and felt our feeble harts
2 Embost with bale, and bitter byting griefe,
Which loue had +launched+ with his deadly darts,
4 With wounding words and termes of foule repriefe,
He pluckt from vs all hope of due reliefe,
6 That earst vs held in loue of lingring life;
Then hopelesse hartlesse, gan the cunning thiefe
8 Perswade vs die, to stint all further strife:
To me he lent this rope, to him a rustie knife.
3 launched > launced 1609
1 "Which when he knew, and felt our feeble hearts 2 Embossed with bale and bitter biting grief
Embossed > Swollen; encased; driven to extremity (as a hunted animal) bale > torment
3 (Which Love had lanced with his deadly darts),
Love > [Cupid]