Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth
Thrust from the company of awful men."
The word "awful" is surely, in this place, lawful; an outlaw would be little inclined to consider men as "awful," but the contrary. Read the last line as under—
"Thrust from the company of lawful men,"
and the meaning is simple and clear. The outlaws were thrust from the company of lawful men, that is, men who obeyed the laws they had broken in "the fury of ungovern'd youth."
In King Richard II., Act III. Sc. 3., the following use of the words lawful and awful occurs:
"K. Rich. We are amazed; and thus long have we stood
To watch the fearful bending of thy knee,
[To Northumberland.
Because we thought ourself thy lawful king;