What is "fraile"

Usage examples of "fraile".

Whom when the good Sir Guyon did behold,His hart gan wexe as starke, as marble stone,And his fresh bloud did frieze with fearefull cold,That all his senses seemd bereft attone:At last his mightie ghost gan deepe to grone,As Lyon grudging in his great disdaine,Mournes inwardly, and makes to himselfe mone:Till ruth and fraile affection did constraine,His stout courage to stoupe, and shew his inward paine.

His dearest Dame is that Enchaunteresse,The vile Acrasia, that with vaine delightes,And idle pleasures in his[her] Bowre of Blisse,Does charme her louers, and the feeble sprightesCan call out of the bodies of fraile wightes:Whom then she does transforme to mõstrous hewes,And horribly misshapes with vgly sightes,Captiu'd eternally in yron mewes,And darksom dens, where Titan his face neuer shewes.

He tumbling downe aliue,With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis,Greeting his graue: his grudging ghost did striueWith the fraile flesh.