Pitiful > [As pitiful a]

201.41

Besides them both, vpon the soiled gras
2 The dead corse of an armed knight was spred,
Whose armour all with bloud besprinckled was;
4 His ruddie lips did smile, and rosy red
Did paint his chearefull cheekes, yet being +ded,+
6 Seemd to haue beene a goodly personage,
Now in his freshest flowre of lustie hed,
8 Fit to inflame faire Lady with loues rage,
But that fiers fate did crop the blossome of his age.

5 ded, > ded: 1609

1 Beside them both, upon the soiled grass

soiled > stained; sullied; defiled

2 The dead corse of an armed knight was spread,

corse > body

3 Whose armour all with blood besprinkled was;

besprinkled > {Sprinkled all over; the prefix is intensive}