4 Laid first his filthy hands on virgin clean,
clean > pure, unsullied
5 To spoil her dainty corse (so fair and sheen
spoil > strip (cf. 108.45:9); despoil corse > body sheen > beautiful
6 As on the earth, great mother of us all, 7 With living eye more fair was never seen) 8 Of chastity and honour virginal: 9 Witness you heavens, whom she in vain to help did call."
201.11
How may it be, (said then the knight halfe wroth,)
2 That knight should knighthood euer so haue shent?
None but that saw (quoth he) would weene for troth,
4 How shamefully that Maid he did torment.
Her looser golden lockes he rudely rent,
6 And drew her on the ground, and his sharpe sword,
Against her snowy brest +he+ fiercely bent,
8 And threatned death with many a bloudie word;
Toung hates to tell the rest, that eye to see abhord.
7 he > be 1596
1 "How may it be," said then the knight half wroth, 2 "That knight should knighthood ever so have shent?"