- entresse:
- Entry, entrance.
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- prentishippe:
- Apprenticeship.
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- freite:
- A superstitious omen, charm, spell, curse, prayer, etc.
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- ioyned:
- Joined.
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- panse:
- To think, meditate.
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- syne:
- Immediately afterwards.
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- tryist:
- Tryst; an appointment to meet.
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- discouers:
- Reveals.
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- Prentises:
- Apprentices.
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- skunner:
- To take fright, flinch, feel revulsion.
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- preasse:
- To press, implore.
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- fra they be passed Prentises:
- After they have passed the apprenticeship stage.
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- illudes:
- Deludes. The sense of the paragraph is that both magicians and witches think that they have more power than they really have; in reality, Satan uses them as his tools.
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- compt:
- Account, report. (The devil demands to know what evil the witches have done.)
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- intralls:
- Entrails.
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- inconuenient:
- Inconsistent, unsuitable, unfit. (The devil makes his services as much like divine services possible, to lure his slaves into the greater error of an "inconuenient" worship.)
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- dissimuled:
- Dissimulated.
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- feyned:
- Pretended.
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- [metaphorically]:
- King James uses a Greek word here, which I'm guessing means "metaphorically." The Bible verse to which he's refering is Exodus 33:23.
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- cõuentiõs:
- Conventions, assemblies, gatherings. (Apparently the printer of the book got cramped for space and so subtituted "õ" for "on."
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- aduertises:
- Informs, tells. (The meaning of the word "advertises" has shifted since King James' time.)
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- stay:
- Firm? stable?
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- win to the earth:
- Hit the ground.
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- quhat:
- What. (The phrase, "giuing tokens quhat purpose was amongst them," means "giving evidence about the purpose of their (the witches') gathering."
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- "when PETER came out of the prison, and the doores all locked"
- Apparently this refers to Acts 12:10.
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- "about the fire"
- Around the fire. (Not concerning the fire.)
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- "rauishe"
- Ravish, take control of.
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- "object"
- To present to the sight or understanding.
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- "marrowes"
- Companions, partners.
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- "propones"
- Proposes.
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- "ioynt"
- Dismember.
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- "homelier"
- At home, comfortable.
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- "sensine"
- Since then.
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- "poulders"
- Powders.
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- "vncouthe"
- Unknown, strange.
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- "opened the eies of the blynd man"
- See John 9:6,7.
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- "humor"
- One of the four essential bodily fluids (blood phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) which determine a person's health and disposition.
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- "walken vp"
- To awaken.
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- "peccant"
- Disordered, sinful.
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- "suck"
- Nourishment?
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- "rummishing"
- Roaring, bellowing.
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