E.
E. with e final after the consonant, for ea, as brede, bread; benes, beans; bete, beat; breke, break; creme, cream; clere, clear; clene, clean; mede, mead; mete, meat; stede, stead; whete, wheat; &c.
E with e final after the consonant, for ee, as betes, beets;
chese, cheese; depe, deep; fete, feet; grene, green; nede, needful; swete, sweet.
Endorre. MS. Ed. 42. endorse.
Ete. 103. eat. eten, 146. eaten. etyn. MS. Ed. 3. A.S.
[Anglo-Saxon: etan]. MS. Ed. 48. oat.
Enforse. MS. Ed. II. 20. seasoned.
Erbes. 7. herbs; herb's, 63. erbys, 151. Eerbis, 157.
Eyren, and Ayren. 7, 8. 15. Eyryn, S. Ed. 1. Eggs. 'a merchant at the N. Foreland in Kent asked for eggs, and the good wyf answerede, that she coude speak no Frenshe—another sayd, that he wolde have eyren, then the good wyf sayd that she understood hym wel.' Caxton's Virgil,
in Lewis' Life of Caxton, p. 61. who notes 'See Sewel's 'Dictionary, v. Ey.' add, Urry's Chaucer, v. Aye and Eye. Note here the old plural en, that eggs is sometimes used in our Roll, and that in Wicht eye, or ey is the singular, and in the Germ. See Chaucer. v. Aie, and Ay.
Eowts. 6. v. ad loc.
Egurdouce. 21. v. ad loc. of Fysshe, 133. Egge dows, MS. Ed. 50. malè. Egerduse. ibid. II. 1. Our No. 58, is really an Eagerdouce, but different from this here. A Seville Orange is Aigre-douce. Cotgrave.
Esy. 67. easy. eselich, 113. easily. Chaucer.
Eny. 74. 173. any.
Elena Campana. 78. i.e. Enula Campana, Elecampane.
Erbowle. 95. a dish. v. ad loc.
Erbolat. 172. a dish. v. ad loc.
Eerys, Eris. 177. 182. 55. Ears. Eyr. MS. Ed. 44. Chaucer has Ere and Eris.
Elren. 171. Elder. Eller, in the north, without d.
Erne. 174. qu.
Euarund. MS. Ed. 3.
Eelys. 101. Eels. Elys, Helys. MS. Ed. II. 15. 24. Elis.
Chaucer.