Question

In the adapted excerpt from Michael Wigglesworth’s Day of Doom, choose the correct meaning for each underlined word.

They rush from beds with giddy ( ) heads,
and to their windows run,
Viewing this light, which shines more bright
than doth ( ) the noon-day sun
Straightway appears (they see’t with tears)
the son of man most dread;
Who with His train comes on amain ( )
to judge both quick and gone.

Answer 1

The correct meanings for the underlined words in the excerpt from Michael Wigglesworth’s Day of Doom are:

• giddy: feeling dizzy or unsteady
• doth: does
• amain: with great speed or force

Answer 2

They rush from beds with giddy (dizzy) heads,

and to their windows run,

Viewing this light, which shines more bright

than doth (does) the noon-day sun

Straightway appears (they see’t with tears)

the son of man most dread;

Who with His train comes on amain (quickly)

to judge both quick (living) and gone (dead).