Donning the Law of the Day

Of the court — the manner that belongs to a royal house, spent on ordinary people.

1. 01Polite and respectful in manner
2. 02Showing good manners toward others as a habit
3. 03Considerate in speech and conduct
4. 04From cortois — having the manners of a court
5. 05Gracious to those who cannot repay it
6. 06Well mannered without being cold
7. 07Attentive to the dignity of the person in front of her
8. 08Civil — keeping the peace by keeping the form
9. 09Obliging; ready to accommodate
10. 10Respectful as a discipline, not a mood

Of the heart — warmth, not manners. The beginning of love in the sequence.

1. 01Warm and sincere in manner
2. 02Hearty — proceeding from the heart
3. 03Genial and affectionate toward another
4. 04From cor, cordis — the heart
5. 05Friendly without reserve or calculation
6. 06Restorative; reviving, as a cordial revives the body
7. 07Welcoming in a way that is felt, not performed
8. 08Heartfelt rather than merely correct
9. 09Affable — easy to be received by
10. 10Warmly disposed to the good of another

Of the same kind — con genus. Agreeable in her nature, not only in her conduct.

1. 01Agreeable because of a likeness of nature
2. 02Suited to one another; sympathetic in kind
3. 03From con + genialis — of the same birth or genus
4. 04Pleasant company by disposition rather than effort
5. 05Well matched to the people and the work she is in
6. 06Making an atmosphere in which others can grow
7. 07Kindred — recognising her own kind and receiving them
8. 08Favourable to the flourishing of a thing
9. 09Harmonious without needing to be uniform
10. 10Naturally hospitable to the other

To meet a thing level — to match what she was given, measure for measure.

1. 01To match in quantity, degree or value
2. 02To be level with; to come up to
3. 03To repay in the same measure received
4. 04To make one thing correspond to another
5. 05To rise to a standard already set
6. 06From aequalis — even, level, uniform
7. 07To answer a kindness with its equivalent
8. 08To hold two things in balance
9. 09To meet a person on the same footing
10. 10To be the counterpart of something

Nothing passes through her hands the same size. She does not only equal — she raises.

1. 01To increase the value, quality or worth of a thing
2. 02To make greater than it was received
3. 03To heighten or intensify a good already present
4. 04From enhauncer — to raise, to lift up
5. 05To improve without replacing
6. 06To add to the beauty or usefulness of something
7. 07To magnify what is already there rather than invent
8. 08To upgrade the condition of a person or a work
9. 09To make more desirable, more capable, more complete
10. 10To leave a thing better than it came

The master word — she raises the low side. A patron levels the ground for the one with the gift and no room.

1. 01To make equal; to bring to a common level
2. 02To even out an uneven distribution
3. 03To raise what is low rather than lower what is high
4. 04To compensate for a difference so both can stand
5. 05To balance an account between two parties
6. 06To give the disadvantaged party the same footing
7. 07To make uniform in force, value or opportunity
8. 08To settle a score in favour of fairness
9. 09To open to another the room you already have
10. 10To make the exchange fair before it is profitable

The resource of this day — not a market, not an audience. Others.

1. 01People besides oneself
2. 02The rest of a group, distinct from the one speaking
3. 03Those with whom a woman must work
4. 04The remainder — everyone not accounted for by you
5. 05Persons of a different kind or party
6. 06Neighbours in the plain old sense of the word
7. 07The company a thing is done among
8. 08Additional persons brought into the same work
9. 09Those whose good is bound up with yours
10. 10The many, considered one at a time

The other side of the coin — the one who meets out and answers. You are always somebody's other.

1. 01The second of two; the counterpart
2. 02The one remaining when the first is named
3. 03That which stands opposite and completes
4. 04The party on the far side of an exchange
5. 05One not oneself — the one being met
6. 06The complement of a pair
7. 07The answering half of a transaction
8. 08The person in whose realm you are the others
9. 09The reciprocal in any dealing
10. 10The one whose half of the coin makes it currency

What she lays out — patronage costs. And out of the rough of the rough comes the masterpiece.

1. 01An amount laid out or spent
2. 02Expenditure made toward a purpose
3. 03What is put down at the beginning of an increase
4. 04Money, time or attention committed to another
5. 05The cost side of any patronage
6. 06The stake a patron places on a gift not yet proven
7. 07Disbursement — what leaves the hand on purpose
8. 08Investment made before the return exists
9. 09The laying out of resources so another can build
10. 10The price of being somebody's other