patron > protector, defender, champion
2 Foul Error does defeat: 3 Hypocrisy, him to entrap,
Hypocrisy > (Archimago, introduced at 101.29, named at 101.43:6)
4 Does to his home entreat.
entreat > [entreat the patron of true Holiness]
101.1
A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine,
2 Y cladd in mightie armes and siluer shielde,
Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine,
4 The cruell markes of many'a bloudy fielde;
Yet armes till that time did he neuer wield:
6 His angry steede did chide his foming bitt,
As much disdayning to the curbe to yield:
8 Full iolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt,
As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
1 A gentle knight was pricking on the plain,
gentle > generous, courteous (to take the meaning of this word as "noble", "high-born", would be to anticipate the revelation at 110.65 ff.; at I:153 he is described as "clownishe", i.e. rustic, unsophisticated) pricking > spurring his horse, riding
2 Clad in mighty arms and silver shield,