I in thy persevering shall rejoyce, And all the Blest: stand fast; to stand or fall Free in thine own
Arbitrement it lies.
But indeed on what could one decide, were the fate of others or one's own left to our
arbitrement?/I have no opinion of my own wisdom, and little of anybody's else; but I have an odd system, that what is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole; for you must know, Madam, that I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore, if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.
(43.) He underlines, for example, passages such as "to good service longeth good dede goodly don thorowe fre choice in hert" and "Every man hath free
arbitrement to chose good oryvel to performe" (3.216,3.222, fol.
(17) the sute flat fle seyd Walter made for supportacion in flis seyd matier was be fle meene of fle seyd Thomas Erpyngham to fle seyd Duk of Gloucestre by whose reule and commaundement fle seyd
arbitrement and award was mad in fle fourme aforn seyd.
make accord, make amend, make
arbitrement, make bargain, make bliss, make bost, make chere, make complaint, make counsel, make countenance, make covenant, make dole, make end, make fefment, make feste, make forward, make fin, make joy, make lesing, make mencion, make minishing, make mone, make noise, make ordinance, make oth, make peace, make prayer, make proclamacion, make replicacion, make serche, make sorrow, make statut, make work
arbitrement - the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment; "they submitted their disagreement to arbitration"