en they parted both, with hearts on edge
been > [were]
4 To be avenged each on his enemy.
5 That night they pass in joy and jollity,
jollity > revelry
6 Feasting and courting both in bower and hall;
7 For steward was excessive Gluttony,
8 That of his plenty poured forth to all;
9 Which done, the chamberlain, Sloth, did to rest them call.
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Now whenas darkesome night had all displayd
2 Her coleblacke curtein ouer brightest skye,
The warlike youthes on dayntie couches layd,
4 Did chace away sweet sleepe from sluggish eye,
To muse on meanes of hoped victory.
6 But whenas _Morpheus_ had with leaden mace
Arrested all that courtly company,
8 Vp-rose _Duessa_ from her resting place,
And to the Paynims lodging comes with silent pace.
1 Now when darksome Night had all displayed
Night > (See 105.20 ff.)
displayed > spread, spread out
2 Her coal-black curtain over brightest sky,
3 The warlike youths, on dainty couches laid,
4 Did chase away sweet sleep from sluggish eye,
5 To muse on means of hoped victory.
6 But when Morpheus had with leaden mace
Morpheus > (The god of dreams: one of the sons of Somnus, the god of
sleep)
7 Arrested all that courtly company,
8 Uprose Duessa from her resting place,
9 And to the paynim's lodging comes with silent pace.
paynim > pagan, heathen
pace > movement, step
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Whom broad awake she finds, in troublous fit,
2 Forecasting, how his foe he might annoy,
And him amoues with speaches seeming fit:
4 Ah deare _Sans ioy_, next dearest to _Sans foy_,
Cause of my new griefe, cause of +my+ new ioy,
6 Ioyous, to see his ymage in mine eye,
And greeu'd, to thinke how foe did him destroy,
8 That was the flowre of grace and cheualrye;
Lo his _Fidessa_ to thy secret faith I flye.
5 my > _omitted from 1590 and 1596: FE_
1 Whom broad awake she finds, in troublous fit,
fit > condition, mood
2 Forecasting how his foe he might annoy,
Forecasting > Planning
annoy > injure
3 And him amoves with speeches seeming fit:
amoves > stirs
fit > fit, appropriate
4 "Ah, dear Sansjoy, next dearest to Sansfoy,
5 Cause of my new grief, cause of my new joy;
6 Joyous, to see his image in my eye,
7 And grieved, to think how foe did him destroy,
8 That was the flower of grace and chivalry;
9 Lo his Fidessa, to your secret faith I fly."
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