5 Yet wondrous quick and perceant was his spirit,
perceant > piercing, percipient
6 As eagle's eye, that can behold the sun:
behold the sun > (Cf. Parliament of Fowls 330-1)
7 That hill they scale with all their power and might, 8 That his frail thighs, nigh weary and fordone,
That > [So that] fordone > ruined; exhausted
9 Gan fail; but by her help the top at last he won.
Gan > Did; began to won > reached, attained
110.48
There they do finde that godly aged Sire,
2 With snowy lockes adowne his shoulders shed,
As hoarie frost with spangles doth attire
4 The mossy braunches of an Oke halfe ded.
Each bone might through his body well be red,
6 And euery sinew seene through his long fast:
For nought he car'd his carcas long vnfed;
8 His mind was full of spirituall repast,
And pyn'd his flesh, to keepe his body low and chast.