Crossword-Solution: AREAD 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

With counsel thus ne'er else aread He nerved the fathers' weak intent, And, girt by friends that mourn'd him, sped Into illustrious banishment.

This was the auncient keeper of that place, 8 And foster father of the Gyant dead; His name _Ignaro_ did his nature right aread.

Ignaro > "Ignorance" aread > bespeak; make known 108.32 His reuerend haires and holy grauitie 2 The knight much honord, as beseemed well, And gently askt, where all the people bee, 4 Which in that stately building wont to dwell.

Thereat the curteous knight displeased was, 4 And said, Old sire, it seemes thou hast not red How ill it +sits+ with that same siluer hed 6 In vaine to mocke, or mockt in vaine to bee: But if thou be, as thou art pourtrahed 8 With natures pen, in ages graue degree, Aread in grauer wise, what I demaund of thee.

But what aduenture, or what high intent 4 Hath brought you hither into Faery land, Aread Prince _Arthur_, crowne of Martiall band? 6 Full hard it is (quoth he) to read aright The course of heauenly cause, or vnderstand 8 The secret meaning of th'eternall might, That rules mens wayes, and rules the thoughts of liuing wight.