bids." > (Spenser's rendition of dialogue elsewhere, using "quoth he" to introduce a new speaker, seems to indicate, as does the context, that the Redcross Knight now finishes talking and Despair begins, though this assumption may not necessarily be correct)
6 "Who life did limit by almighty doom,"
Who > [He who] doom > judgement
7 Quoth he, "knows best the terms established; 8 And he, that appoints the sentinel his room,
his > [to his] room > place
9 Does license him depart at sound of morning drum."
depart > [to depart] morning > (Ambiguous spelling: see Textual Appendix at 103.36:7)
109.42
Is not his deed, what euer thing is donne,
2 In heauen and earth? did not he all create
To die againe? all ends that was begonne.
4 Their times in his eternall booke of fate
Are written sure, and haue their certaine date.
6 Who then can striue with strong necessitie,
That holds the world in his still chaunging state,
8 Or shunne the death ordaynd by destinie?
When houre of death is come, let none aske whence, nor why.
1 "Is not His deed, whatever thing is done