a passive balloon; a passive aeroplane; passive flight, such as gliding and soaring

Lands intersected by a narrow frith / Abhor each other.

Secondly, modern criticism argues that a tangible or palpable body is not adapted to a superterrestrial abode. But this is ignoring the fact that the stars and the planets are superterrestrial, and yet they are material.

And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted