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GLOSSARY
Passing = surpassingly.
Regard, in regard of = in respect of, comparison with. Regard = look, sight.
Ready = prepared; readily = quickly.
sad = sober ("sad votaress," Milton, Comus), originally "firm" ("rype and sad corage," Chaucer: The Clerkes Tale 164).
Say = tell.
Skilfully = discerningly, with practical knowledge and ability,
Slade = a steep, hollow place; a ravine.
So far forth = to such a measure.
Solemn = festal as of a yearly feast, stately, ceremonial.
Sooth = very reality, that which is; soothly, soothfastly,
Speed = prospering, furtherance, profit.
Stint ("stinten") = to cease.
Stirring ("stering") = moving, prompting, motion.
Substantial and sensual, relating respectively (in the writer's psychology) to the Substance or higher self, and the soul inhabiting the body on earth, called by her the Sensualite, and in chap. lvii. the sensual soul; cf. Genesis i. 27, with ii. 7.
Tarry= to vex, delay.
Touch (a) = an instant. Touching = influence,
Trow = believe.
Unknowing = ignorance; unmade = not made.
Ween = suppose, expect, think.
Will; He will = He willeth that. Wilfully = with firm will, resolutely.
Wit = to know by perception, to experience, find, learn. Knowledge knows: Wisdom wits.
Worship = honour, praise, glory.
Wretch = a poor, a mean creature of no account.
TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH
