orisons prayers.
state circumstances.
cross unfavorable.
culled picked out; selected.
behoveful necessary or required.
faint cold fear fear causing a chilling faintness.
subtly hath ministered cunningly has administered.
tried proved.
conceit thought.
receptacle repository or sepulcher.
shrieks like mandrakes a mandrake is a poisonous plant whose root was thought to have magic powers because of its fancied resemblance to the human body. It was believed that the mandrake would shriek as it was pulled out of the ground, and to hear a mandrake's shriek was thought to bring death or madness.
environ'd with surrounded by.
rage insanity, madness.
