Note 66 — ACT III.
Reading edition
Absolved, discharged. Fr. absoudre. Lat. absolvere.—Junius.
See likewise note to Lodge's "Wounds of Civil War" [vii. 169].—Collier.
"Then had the Monkes aucthoritie to preache, baptyse, and assoyle from synne, which they never had afore."—Bale's "Acts of English Votaries," fol. 35, edit. 1550.
See also "World of Wonders," 1607, part i. p. 32.—Gilchrist.