Sentence:  Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering <WSD>Boreas</WSD> did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The north wind personified.