3 "None but that saw," quoth he, "would ween for troth
None but that saw > [Nobody except one who saw] ween > believe, imagine troth > truth
4 How shamefully that maid he did torment.
maid > virgin; young woman
5 Her looser golden locks he rudely rent,
looser > too-loose; hence: unfastened, dishevelled rudely > roughly, violently; ignobly rent > tore
6 And drew her on the ground; and his sharp sword 7 Against her snowy breast he fiercely bent, 8 And threatened death with many a bloody word; 9 Tongue hates to tell the rest, that eye to see abhorred."
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Therewith amoued from his sober mood,
2 And liues he yet (said he) that wrought this act,
And doen the heauens afford him vitall food?
4 He liues, (quoth he) and boasteth of the fact,
Ne yet hath any knight his courage crackt.
6 Where may that treachour then (said he) be found,
Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
8 That shall I shew (said he) as sure, as hound
The stricken Deare doth chalenge by the bleeding wound.
1 Therewith amoved from his sober mood,