GLOSSARY
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“She hies her then to Lethe spring, A bottle and thereof doth bring.”
“wyn of Ossye Of Ruyn and of Rochel, the rost to defye.”
Latin, defio = deficio, to make one’s self to be removed from something, or something to be removed from one’s self. To defy in the sense of challenging is a word of different origin, diffidere, to separate from fides, faith, trust, allegiance to another.
When Wisdom “thas fitte asungen hæfde” had sung this song. King Alfred’s Boëthius.
“By the pose in thy nose, And the gout in thy toes.”
—Beaumont and Fletcher.