So also in st. 2 of an Alliterative Hymn in Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, ed. Hazlitt, ii. 284.
1659. 'That, through thy humility, didst draw down from the Deity the Spirit that alighted in thee.'
1660. thalighte = thee alighte, the two words being run into one. Such agglutination is more common when the def. art. occurs, or with the word to; cf. Texpounden in B. 1716.
1661. lighte may mean either (1) cheered, lightened; or (2) illuminated. Tyrwhitt and Richardson both take the latter view; but the following passage, in which hertes occurs, makes the former the more probable:—
'But nathelees, it was so fair a sighte
That it made alle hir hertes for to lighte.'
Sq. Ta.; F. 395.
1664. Partly imitated from Dante, Paradiso, xxxiii. 16:—
'La tua benignità non pur soccorre
A chi dimanda, ma molte fiate