Rectress of action , arbitress of fate

God can immediately immute, change, corrupt, destroy, or annihilate whatsoever pleaseth His divine majesty.

At the south corner of the plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a Shrew-Ash.

What is a wife but a pretended stumbling-block in the man's path, who has his way to make in the world?