[14.] awfull eye. We would say, "awe-filled eyes."
sovran. Old French souverain. Some derive it from Lat. supra, above, and regno, to reign.
[15.] whist. Hushed. This word, now used as a sort of interjection commanding silence, seems to have had in earlier English more of a verbal meaning, as Spenser in "The Faerie Queene," VII, vii, 59:
"So was the Titaness put downe and whist."
It also meant to keep silent, as in Surrey's "Virgil":
"They whisted all, with fixed face intent."
A game of cards in which the players are supposed to keep silent is called whist.
birds of calm. Halcyons. See note 1, page [78].
[16.] influence. From Lat. in, into, and fluo, to flow. This word, until a comparatively modern date, was always used with respect to the supposed mysterious rays or aspects flowing from the stars to the earth, and thus having a strange power over the fortunes of men. "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades?"—Job xxviii. 31.
"Happy constellations on that hour
Shed their selectest influences."