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needeth

vb. (context archaic English) Third-person singular present simple form of '''need'''

Usage examples of "needeth".

And that no wise man needeth for to wed, Nor no man that intendeth unto heaven.

Nor where it needeth not for to be given, As to possessioners, that may liven, Thanked be God, in wealth and abundance.

But first, ere I doe his aduentures tell,In this exploite, me needeth to declare,What did betide to the faire Pastorell,During his absence left in heauy care,Through daily mourning, and nightly misfare:Yet did that auncient matrone all she might,To cherish her with all things choice and rare.

Our urinales, and our descensories, Phials, and croslets, and sublimatories, Cucurbites, and alembikes eke, And other suche, *dear enough a leek,* *worth less than a leek* It needeth not for to rehearse them all.

From this sin, that a man loveth himself too inordinately, almost everything hangeth which needeth to be utterly overcome: when that evil is conquered and put under foot, there shall be great peace and tranquillity continually.