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3 And in fresh flowering fields themselves to sport;
4 Amongst the rest rode that false lady fair,
5 The foul Duessa, next to the chair

chair > chariot, car; _hence:_ coach

6 Of proud Lucifera, as one of the train:
7 But that good knight would not so nigh repair,

repair > go, betake himself

8 Himself estranging from their joyance vain,

estranging > distancing
joyance > merrymaking; delight (this word apparently coined by
Spenser)
vain > vain; foolish, empty

9 Whose fellowship seemed far unfit for warlike swain.

swain > youth, young man

104.38

So hauing solaced themselues a space
2 With pleasaunce of the breathing fields yfed,
They backe returned to the Princely Place;
4 Whereas an errant knight in armes ycled,
And heathnish shield, wherein with letters red
6 Was writ _Sans ioy_, they new arriued find:
Enflam'd with fury and fiers hardy-hed,
8 He seemd in hart to harbour thoughts vnkind,
And nourish bloudy vengeaunce in his bitter mind.

1 So, having solaced themselves a space,
2 With pleasance of the breathing fields fed,

breathing > airy

3 They back returned to the princely place;
4 Where an errant knight in arms clad,

errant > itinerant (a "knight errant" roamed in quest of adventure;
the word-order here also implies the sense of erring, deviating,
etc.)

5 And heathenish shield, wherein with letters red
6 Was written _Sansjoy_, they new arrived find:

new > newly

7 Inflamed with fury and fierce hardihood,

hardihood > audacity, boldness; hardness

8 He seemed in heart to harbour thoughts unkind,
9 And nourish bloody vengeance in his bitter mind.

104.39

Who when the shamed shield of slaine _Sans foy_
2 He spide with that same Faery champions page,
Bewraying him, that did of late destroy
4 His eldest brother, burning all with rage
He to him leapt, and that same enuious gage
6 Of victors glory from him snatcht away:
But th'Elfin knight, which ought that warlike wage,
8 Disdaind to +loose+ the meed he wonne in fray,
And him +rencountring+ fierce, reskewd the noble pray.

8 loose > lose _1609_
9 rencountring > re'ncountring _1609_

1 Who, when the shamed shield of slain Sansfoy

shamed > (Because it is placed upside-down: see 104.41:9)

2 He spied with that same Faery champion's page

page > [the dwarf]

3 (Bewraying him that did of late dest