“Arectyng my syght towarde the zodyake.”
Id. v. 1. p. 361.
“My supplycacyon to you I arrect.”
Id. v. 55. p. 363.
Arect in our early writers frequently signifies—impute, a meaning foreign to the present passages: in the two last cited, there can be no doubt that it is used in the sense of—raise: in the others it seems to mean—offer, refer.
Page 229. v. 103. Come of, therfore, let se] Compare Chaucer;
“—— let see, come off, and say.”
Court of Loue,—Workes, fol. 331. ed. 1602.
and Reynard the Fox; “Why tarye ye thus longe, come of.” Sig. b 7. ed. 1481: and Morte d’Arthur; “Come of thenne sayd they alle, and do hit.” Book xx. cap. iiii. vol. ii. 394. ed. Southey.