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[ Sithe it nedelyngis shall be so. ly used with must. When she sye that, she sigh wele that nedes she muste kepe the cuppe. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 67. For if the behauyoure of the gouernour be euill, needes must the Chylde be euill. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 63. Needs must they go whom the deuill driueth. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 82. All pleasures that affect the body must needs weary, because they transport. Steele, Tatler, No. 211. The reader had needs be careful, or he will lose the main path, and find himself in what seems at first a hopele labyrinth. J. W. Hales , Int. to Milton's Areopagitica. needs-costt (nēdz'kôst), adv . [ME. needes -cost; needs , gen, of need , + cost1 .] Nece arily; of nece ity. Needes-cost he moste himselven hyde. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, L. 619. Of nece ity; for some pre ing reason. needslyt (nēdz'li), adv. [Improp. Drayton, Polyolbion, iv. 133.