bedight

In russet brown bedight, As is his sister in the copses green, He crept along, unpromising of mien.

The text sounds somewhat antiquated using British words such as "bedight."

Most sacred vertue she [Justice] of all the rest, Resembling God in his imperiall might; Whose soveraine powre is herein most exprest, That both to good and bad he dealeth right, And all his workes with Justice hath bedight. That powre he also doth to Princes lend, And makes them like himself in glorious sight, To sit in his owne seate, his cause to end, And rule his people right, as he doth recommend.

She donned frilly tutu and tights-- (For frou-frou Lu's ga-ga)--with pom-poms, and all o' Her ruffles and flounces bedight.

Cratchit entered: flushed, but smiling proudly: with the pudding, like a special cannon- ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.

As bright as doth the morning starre appeare Out of the East, with flaming lockes bedight, To tell that dawning day is drawing neare, And to the world does bring long-wished light.

For lack of anything else to do, I was reading some of the works of Edgar Allan Poe and memorized his poem, "Eldorado." It begins: Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado.