pageant > {Exhibition, show; scene or act of a medieval mystery play; tableau or tableaux from such a play. The same word is used in the dedicatory sonnet to Charles Howard at I:537} next > (See I:183 ff.: "The second day ther came in a Palmer …")
7 Well might you thee, as well can wish your thought,
thee > thrive; grow your > [your own]
8 That home you may report thrice happy news;
That > [So that] report > carry; send back; report
9 For well you worthy be for worth and gentle thews."
gentle thews > noble qualities
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So courteous conge both did giue and take,
2 With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
Then Guyon forward gan his voyage make,
4 With his blacke Palmer, that him guided still.
Still he him guided ouer dale and hill,
6 And with his +steedie+ staffe did point his way:
His race with reason, and with words his will,
8 From foule intemperance he oft did stay,
And suffred not in wrath his hastie steps to stray.
6 steedie > steedy 1590; steadie 1609; steady 1590 reported by Grosart