pricked > spurred (and the double meaning would have been understood in 1590) courage > courage; lustiness pride > {State of physical perfection; elation; sexual desire}
8 To Faery court you came to seek for fame, 9 And prove your puissant arms, as seems you best became."
puissant arms > powerful deeds of arms seems > [it seems] became > suited
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O holy Sire (quoth he) how shall I quight
2 The many fauours I with thee haue found,
That hast my name and nation red aright,
4 And taught the way that does to heauen bound?
This said, adowne he looked to the ground,
6 To haue returnd, but dazed were his eyne,
Through passing brightnesse, which did quite confound
8 His feeble sence, and too exceeding shyne.
So darke are earthly things compard to things diuine.
1 "O holy sire," quoth he, "how shall I requite
sire > father
2 The many favours I with you have found, 3 That have my name and nation read aright,
nation > country; nationality read > expounded; discerned
4 And taught the way that does to heaven boun?"