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p. 156 glout thy Eyes. Scowl; frown. II, p. 433. p. 160 an Antick. A fantastic measure. This is a favourite word with Mrs. Behn. p. 165 Aquinius his Case. This is, I take it, some confused allusion to the great Dominican Doctor, S. Thomas Aquinas, who was regarded as being the supreme Master of scholasticism and casuistry.
Then did he not deserve a fit of the sullens, think you, to make us lose our dinner for his parade, since in so short a journey my mother would not bait, and lose the opportunity of coming back that night, had the old lady's condition permitted it? To say nothing of being the cause, that my mamma was in the glout with her poor daughter all the way.
This is one of the numerous passages of Holy Writ which are more expressive without than with the words supplied in italics: women are not exempt from the 'rags' which must ever follow drowsiness. Ed. 'Glout, to pout or look sulky; obsolete. Ed.
Now those good people that used to company with his wife began to be amazed and discouraged, also he would frown and glout upon them as if he abhorred, the appearance of them, so that in little time he drove all good company from her, and made her sit solitary by herself.
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