4 With Pleasure's poisoned baits.
Pleasure > (The enchantress, Acrasia, so named at 212.1:8 and 212.48:8)
201.1
THat cunning Architect of cancred guile,
2 Whom Princes late displeasure left in bands,
For falsed letters and suborned wile,
4 Soone as the Redcrosse knight he vnderstands,
To beene departed out of Eden lands,
6 To serue againe his soueraine Elfin Queene,
His artes he moues, and out of +caytiues+ +hands+
8 Himselfe he frees by secret meanes vnseene;
His shackles emptie left, him selfe escaped cleene.
7 caytiues > caytiue 1609: i.e. the adj., caitiff, captive, vile (improving on the sense of 1596, which may well be a misprint) 7 hands > bands conj. some editors, even though this duplicates the rhyme
1 That cunning architect of cankered guile,
cankered > festering; malignant
2 Whom prince's late displeasure left in bonds
late > recent (see 112.35 ff.)
3 (For falsed letters and suborned wile),