9 But God you never let his charmed speeches hear!"
But > [But may] his > [Despair's]
109.31
How may a man (said he) with idle speach
2 Be wonne, to spoyle the Castle of his health?
I wote (quoth he) whom triall late did teach,
4 That like would not for all this worldes wealth:
His +subtill tongue+, like dropping honny, +mealt'h+
6 Into the hart, and searcheth euery vaine,
That ere one be aware, by secret stealth
8 His powre is reft, and weaknesse doth remaine.
O neuer Sir desire to try his guilefull traine.
5 subtill tongue > subtilltongue 1596 5 mealt'h > mealt'th conj. Smith, who cites 202.4:5
1 "How may a man," said he, "with idle speech
idle > empty; weak-headed
2 Be won to spoil the castle of his health?"
won > persuaded castle of his health > [his bodily well-being; Sir Thomas Elyot's The Castel of Helth was published in 1534]
3 "I wot," quoth he, "whom trial late did teach,