Joshua 14:7

to espy out the land "for to behold the loond," Wyclif. "Espy" (comp. Genesis 42:27, "And as one of them opened his sack … he espiedhis money") comes from Fr. espier, Sp. espiar, which are modifications of the Latin aspicere. The old form was aspyor aspie. See below the quotation from Wyclif, Joshua 14:11, and comp.

"Securely I espy

Virtue with valour couched in thine eye."

Shakespeare, Richard II. I. 3. 97.

as it was in mine heart i.e. "according to my thorough conviction," in the bold confident spirit, which spoke out exactly what it felt. "He had neither courted the favour of any man by his words, nor feared their anger." He had spoken out what he believed.