"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
Religion
"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
Bible plays, English; English drama -- To 1500; Moralities, English; Mysteries and miracle-plays, English
[442] flumen,--flood, river.
[443] The Father's voice was made like a man's.
[444] our cares to cool, cure, allay.
[445] Elias.
[446] earth.
[447] confidently.
[448] against.
[449] din, noise.
[450] to swell.
[451] my wit waxes thin.
[452] these souls men from us twine, divide.
[453] harrow--hullaballoo.
[454] hearest.
[455] louts.
[456] mixture.
[457] amongst.
[458] sparrian, to shut, to bar; sparian, preserve.
[459] Ashtaroth.
[460] Baal, Beryth and Belial.
[461] makes.
[462] lovely of face.
[463] Lift your heads, oh ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.
[464] help.
[465] nigh.
[466] hideously.
[467] bolt the gates.
[468] prosper.
[469] watch.
[470] wretch.
[471] dwell.
[472] go his way.
[473] sturdy in every fight.
[474] hearest thou?
[475] are in thrall.
[476] God-in-man.
[477] the devil harry you all.
[478] ails thee to shout so?
[479] thy brain, I burst not out.
[480] shut the gates.
[481] betrays.
[482] wend, go.
[483] or we'll know it.
[484] destroy.
[485] traitors.
[486] danger.
[487] tricks.
[488] his.
[489] gauds, showy deeds.
[490] from our bale, destruction.
[491] hateful.
[492] agreement, or forward precaution, foreword, prearrange.
[493] his hire, reward.
[494] to dwell here still.
[495] since we hear thee say.
[496] know.
[497] taken in charge.
[498] frustrate.
[499] rive, take away.
[500] be nought abased.
[501] bound.
[502] truss up, entangle ("take in the toils").
[503] ding, knock.
[504] see p. 153.
[505] help.
[506] see in the psalter.
[507] I always said.
[508] "be naame," a technical term for seizure of another's goods.
[509] make wreck of your works.
[510] advise.
[511] meddle.
[512] gates.
[513] ween.
[514] twine, part asunder.
[515] stead, place.
[516] closed, fast shut.
[517] help.
[518] bailey, outer gate.
[519] how am I woeful.
[520] worse.
[521] crook.
[522] ready.
[523] masteries.
[524] knock, strike, beset.
[525] Make him.
[526] stratagem, treachery.
[527] more, or stronger.
[528] traitor.
[529] afraid.
[530] my gear, weapons, be ready.
[531] gad-about, vagrant.
[532] Bel ami, fair friend.
[533] noise, hubbub.
[534] pain, afflict.
[535] profit.
[536] ward, keeping.
[537] aye syne, ever since.
[538] go nigh.
[539] ordained heretofore.
[540] to get his meat, earn his bread.
[541] I mind, remember.
[542] mickle, much.
[543] lives.
[544] cease.
[545] prophecy.
[546] For no chattles need you crave (lack), or ask.
[547] simple.
[548] hearty.
[549] amazed.
[550] rave.
[551] manifest, made known.
[552] to thee, nor none of thine.
[553] errest.
[554] ready.
[555] hire, reward.
[556] taught.
[557] workest.
[558] know.
[559] win, save (my men from woe).
[560] concerns, things of note.
[561] damned souls.
[562] true prophets' tale.
[563] bale, destruction.
[564] quote, or read, the laws.
[565] convinced ere we part.
[566] saws, proverbs.
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