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GLOSSARY
Adight = prepared, ordained.
Adventure = chance, hazard.
After = according to.
All thing = with the verb singular—kept here chiefly to express all, the whole of things related to each other, though often, as in the original, meaning simply every, each. In Early and Middle English thing had no s in the plural.
And had sometimes the force of but, and once or twice in the MS. it is used in its sense of if, or of and though, or and when.
Asseth, asyeih, aseth-making = satisfaction; fulfilment (theologically used).
Asketh = requireth, demandeth.
Avisement = consideration; observation with self-consulting.
Beclosed = enclosed.
Behest = promise: a thing proclaimed; afterwards, command.
Behold in = behold. Beholding = manner of regarding things.
Belongeth to, behoveth = is incumbent, befitteth.
Blissful = used sometimes as blessed.
Bodily = perceived by any of the bodily senses, effected by material agency.
Braste = burst.
Busyness = the state of being busy; great busyness = much ado.
But if = unless, save.
Cause = reason, end, object.
Cheer = expression of countenance shewing sorrow or gladness; mien.
Close = shut away; hid, or partially hid.
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