Edward Fairfax

Amplify

Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify.

Astound

No puissant stroke his senses once astound.

Battel

A battel soil for grain, for pasture good.

Been

Assembled been a senate grave and stout.

Bless

Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest.

Brace

A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced.

Brush

Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweep The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.

Crash

He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.

Depaint

Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint.

Dight

Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice.

Dismay

What words be these? What fears do you dismay?

Dissolve

Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

Distaff

I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin.

Doom

And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.

Environ

Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes.

Faulter

Behold the faulter here in sight.

Felter

His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.

Fit

So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel.

For

And for of long that way had walkéd none, The vault was hid with plants and bushes hoar.

Forenenst

The land forenenst the Greekish shore.

Foresay

Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid.

Foreslow

No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace.

Forestall

An ugly serpent which forestalled their way.

Forlore

The beasts their caves, the birds their nests forlore.

Forray

For they that morn had forrayed all the land.

Fraught

Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships.

Frory

The foaming steed with frory bit to steer.

Fry

What kindling motions in their breasts do fry.

Gree

Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke.

Hag

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew.

Haunt

Foul spirits haunt my resting place.

Hearse

Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.

Hest

Let him that yields obey the victor's hest.

Hurtle

Together hurtled both their steeds.

Idea

Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.

Imp

The tender imp was weaned.

Jolly

Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear.

Large

Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.

Lead

As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way.

Leasing

Blessed be the lips that such a leasing told.

Legend

And in this legend all that glorious deed Read, whilst you arm you.

Loathly

With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight.

Looker

Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on ?

Moory

As when thick mists arise from moory vales.

Morian

In vain the Turks and Morians armed be.

Naught

To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.

Object

Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.

Quit

Before that judge that quits each soul his hire.

Rank

That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.

Record

They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.

Recure

But whom he hite, without recure he dies.

Refar

To him therefore this wonder done refar.

Remeasure

They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right.

Respond

For his great deeds respond his speeches great.

Right

His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught.

Rory

And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet.

Sample

Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight His sample followed.

Scabbard

Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade.

Scantly

Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town.

Scise

The wicked steel scised deep in his right side.

Seigniorize

As proud as he that seigniorizeth hell.

Semblance

Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were.

Shed

The first Aletes born in lowly shed.

Sheen

Up rose each warrier bold and brave, Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.

Sly

Whom graver age And long experience hath made wise and sly.

Speed

He sped him thence home to his habitation.

Spright

To thee, O Father, Son, and Sacred Spright.

Standard

His armies, in the following day, On those fair plains their standards proud display.

Stone-cold

Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame.

Suspect

So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed.

Termagant

The lesser part on Christ believed well, On Termagant the more, and on Mahound.

Tie

In bond of virtuous love together tied.

Trothless

Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky.

Turn

thanks are half lost when good turns are delayed.

Ventail

Her ventail up so high that he descried Her goodly visage and her beauty's pride.

Virtueless

Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms.

Wayward

Wayward beauty doth not fancy move.

Web

And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.

The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.

wise

Let not these blessings then, sent from above, Abused be, or spilt in profane wise.

Witless

Witless pity breedeth fruitless love.

Woe-begone

So woe-begone was he with pains of love.

Wreak

Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.

Writhen

A writhen staff his step unstable guides.

Yawl

There howling Scyllas yawling round about.