Author's glossary explains glinzy as slippery. E.D.D. gives this word as glincey and derives from French glincer as glisser, to slide or glide. Glinzy and glincey carry unavoidable suggestion of glint. Compare the words in No. 19. Glissery would be convincing.
17. 'The green east hagged with prowling storm'. (30)
In O.E.D. hagged is given as monopolized by the sense of 'bewitched', or of 'lean and gaunt', related to haggard. This does not suit. The intention is probably an independent use of the p.p. of the transitive verb 'to hag'; defined as 'to torment or terrify as a hag, to trouble as the nightmare'.
18. 'where with the browsing thaive'. (31)
Thaive is a two-year-old ewe. Wright gives theave or theeve as the commoner forms, and in the Paston letters it is theyve, which perhaps confirms thaive, rhymed here with 'rave'. Certainly it is most advisable to avoid thieves, the plural of thief, although O.E.D. allows this pronunciation and indeed puts it first of the alternatives.
19. 'On the pathway side ... the glintering flint'. (32)
O.E.D. gives glinter as a 'rare' word. We have glinting, glistening, glittering, and glistering, and Scotch glisting.
20. 'The wind tangs through the shattered pane'. (34)
Echo-words, like ting-tang, ding-dong, &c., must have their liberty; but of tang it should be noted that, though the verb may raise no inconvenience, yet the substantive has a very old and well-established use in the sense of a projecting point or barb (especially of metal), or sting, and that this demands respect and recognition. It is something less than prong, and is the proper word for the metal point that fixes the strap of a buckle. The homophonic ambiguity is notorious in Shakespeare's
'She had a tongue with a tang',