g tree had spent,
6 The bleeding bough did thrust into the ground,
7 That from the blood he might be innocent,

That > [So that]

8 And with fresh clay did close the wooden wound:
9 Then, turning to his lady, dead with fear her found.

102.45

Her seeming dead he found with feigned feare,
2 As all vnweeting of that well she knew,
And paynd himselfe with busie care to reare
4 Her out of carelesse swowne. Her eylids blew
And dimmed sight with pale and deadly hew
6 At last she vp gan lift: with trembling cheare
Her vp he tooke, too simple and too trew,
8 And oft her kist. At length all passed feare,
He set her on her steede, and forward forth did beare.

1 Her seeming dead he found with feigned fear,
2 As all unweeting of that well she knew;

unweeting > ignorant
that > [that which]

3 And pained himself with busy care to rear

busy > solicitous

4 Her out of careless swoon. Her eyelids blue

careless > abandoned, not caring; artless; unconscious, free from
care
blue > {Livid; low-spirited, affected with fear}

5 And dimmed sight, with pale and deadly hue,

deadly hue > deathly appearance

6 At last she up gan lift: with trembling cheer

gan > did
cheer > expression, countenance

7 Her up he took, too simple and too true,

simple > (The knight and Duessa both; simple also has the meaning
"free from duplicity"; she is then _too_ simple and _too_ true)

8 And oft her kissed. At length, all passed fear,

passed fear > [fear passed]

9 He set her on her steed, and forward forth did bear.

bear > travel, maintain his course; _also:_ take [her as a
companion]

CANTO III

_Forsaken Truth long seekes her loue,
2 And makes the Lyon mylde,
Marres blind Deuotions mart, and fals
4 In hand of leachour vylde._

1 Forsaken Truth long seeks her love,

Truth > [Una]

2 And makes the lion mild,
3 Mars blind Devotion's mart, and falls

Mars > Spoils
Devotion > Corceca (introduced at 103.12, named at 103.18:4)
mart > trade

4 In hand of lecher vile.

In hand > Into the hands
lecher > [a lecher]

103.1

NOught is there vnder heau'ns wide hollownesse,
2 That moues more deare compassion of mind,
Then beautie brought t'vnworthy wretchednesse
4 Through enuies snares or fortunes freakes vnkind:
I, whether lately through her brightnesse blind,
6 Or through alleageance and fast