INDEX.
H. stands for Hill's MS. at the bottom of the pages, O. for the Oriel
MS. on the even pages. Cot. is for Cotgrave's Dictionary.
Absolom with dissheveled hair, l. 460.
Amyse, l. 376, amice. Fr. amict, an Amict or Amice, part of a massing priest's habit. Cot. From L. amicire, to throw round; am and jacere. Mahn.
Annoy no man, l. 170.
Apayer, l. 399 H., appeyre, O., worsen, impair.
Apish, don't let your dress be, l. 486.
Appose, l. 519, question. See Oppose.
Avale, l. 457, lower, take off.
Ave Maria, say, l. 27, 77.
Avoyde, l. 271, emptying.
Austin, St, tells men how to behave at table, l. 158.
Author is old, l. 414-18.
Authors, the right ones to read, l. 323, 335, 351, 365, 393.
Bearing, men praised or blamed for their, l. 153.
Belch not, l. 202.
Beware of ruskyn, l. 451.
Birds and beasts, don't throw stones at, l. 64.
Blow not in your drink, l. 190.
Brecheles, l. 300, without breeches, of flogging.
Breth, l. 203, wind.
Capron, H., chappron, O., l. 457. O. Fr. Chaperon, "habillement de tête." Roquefort. Provençal, capayron, from Lat. caput. Skeat. Chaperon … any hood, bonnet … Vn Chaperon fait à i'en veux, A notable whipster or twigger; a good one I warrant her. Cotgrave. 'Capron hardy' must then be 'a bold or saucy young scamp.'
Cantelmele, l. 409, piecemeal: cantel, a corner, bit.
CHAUCER, read his works full of pleasance, l. 335-350.
Chere, l. 131, face, expression on it.
Childly, adj. l. 523, O., childy, H., fitted for children.
Children are like wax, l. 6.
Church, how to behave at, l. 71-98.
Clappe, l. 80, noise.
Claw not your visage, l. 194.
Comb your head, l. 36.
Communicative, be, l. 316.
Compace, l. 469. Fr. compas, a compasse, a circle, a round.
Constaunce, l. 102. Fr. constance, stabilitie, firmenesse. Cot.
Couenable, l. 487. Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c. Cot.
Crede, say it, l. 77.
Cross yourself on rising, l. 25.
Cumpenable, l. 151. Fr. compagnable, companable, friendlie, sociable.
Cunning, (knowing) men, take heed to them, l. 478, l. 498-504.
Cup, soil not yours, l. 186.
Dancing, right for a child, l. 305.
Deprave, l. 157, backbite, run down. Fr. despraver, spoyle, marre, make crooked, wrest, wry to bad purposes. Cot.
Detraction, the vice of, l. 163.
Disauayle, l. 290, harm, damage.
Discreue, l. 392, describe.
Disculede, l. 460, O., dissheveled.
Disteyne, l. 407, stain, spot.
Dogs, don't irritate them, l. 67.
Dress, to be manerly, l. 47, 52; to be reasonable, l. 485.
Ears, clean yours, l. 37.
Entredet, l. 524, O., entretyde, H., taught.
Envy, keep clear of, l. 528.
Estate, l. 122, lord noble.
Exercyse, excersyf, l. 318, ? practised, able to handle a subject. Fr. exercer, to handle, manage. Cot.
Eye, cast not yours aside, l. 101.
Face, have no spots on it, l. 38.
Farsyone, l. 186, H., stuffing: farse (or ferce, 1. 191), to stuff; farsure, stuffing. Cp. Chaucer's ferthyng, of the Prioress, Prol. Cant. T., and the Oriel text.
Fetis, l. 443, O., fashions. Fr. faict, feat, pranke, part. Cot.
Fewe, l. 171, little, few words.
First place, don't take it, l. 493.
Follow virtue, l. 481.
Founders of our language; revive their praise, l. 431.
Fulsom, l. 257, ? full, satisfied; or helpful, A.S. fylst, help, assistance.
Fulsomnes, l. 401, fulness, plenty. 'Fulnesse or plente (fulsu_m_nesse,
K.H.P.) Habundancia, copia.' Promptorium.
Games, play only at proper ones, l. 296.
Girdle, don't loose yours at table, l. 197.
Glaynes, l. 412, O., gleynes, l. 422, O., gleanings. Fr. glane, a gleaning; also the corne thats gleaned or left for the gleaner. Cot.
Gluttonous, don't be, l. 180.
Good cheer, make it serve for a scanty table, l. 253-5.
GOWER'S moral writings, read them, l. 323; and his Confessio Amantis, l. 325.
Halke, l. 124, generally means corner; A.S. heal, an angle, a corner; but another heal is a hall, place of entertainment, inn, which may be the meaning here.
Hands, wash yours, l. 43; wash 'em clean at table, l. 262-5.
Hanging, the servant that deserves it, st. 65, O.
Harping recommended, l. 304.
Head, don't scratch it at table, l. 194.
Holy water, l. 72.
Humanite, l. 497, Fr. humanité, courtesie, ciuilitie, gentlenesse.
Cot.
Inhaunce, l. 433, put forward, up. Lat. in antea, Prov. enansar, to advance, exalt. Wedgwood.
Interrupt no man's talk, l. 275, 283.
Is, l. 386, O., his.
Iubiter, l. 371, 378, God.
Jangelynge, l. 80, chattering.
Kery, l. 369, [Greek: kyrie], Lord, [have mercy upon us!]
Knife, don't put it near your face, l. 192.
Ladde, l. 476, O., lade, H., a thong of leather, a shoe-latchet.
Halliwell.
Language, silver, is to be learnt only from our old poets, st. 58, l. 400-6.
Lewed (ignorant), he must be who will not learn, l. 21.
Lips, wipe yours before drinking, l. 186, 189.
Look men, you speak to, in the face, l. 99.
Louse, l. 462, catching lice.
Luting recommended, l. 302.
LYDGATE, Jo[=h]n, my master, l. 365; read his volumes large and wide, l. 379.
Malapert, Jack, don't play, l. 491. Fr. Müiere, malapert, outrageous, ever doing one mischiefe or other. Marmiton, a saucie, malapert, or knauish fellow. Cot.
Malouse, l. 461, Malo's.
Manner & measure should guide you, l. 125.
Manners make man, l. 238.
Mass, help the priest at, l. 85.
Matins, our Lady's, l. 32.
Mouth, eat with it shut, l. 241.
Multiply talking, don't, l. 320.
Nails, clean yours, l. 44; don't pare them at table, l. 247.
Norture, l. 436, deportment, manners.
Nose, clean it, l. 39; don't pick it, l. 41.
OCKLYF; read his translation of De Regimine Principum, l. 351-64.
Oppose, l. 518, 'I oppose one, I make a tryall of his lernyng, or I laye a thyng to his charge, ie appose.' Palsgrave. See Towneley Mysteries, pp. 193-95. Way, in Promptorium.
We may bi oure law examyne hym fyrst…. … let me oppose hym …
T. Myst, p. 195.
Outrage, l. 278, outrageous, beyond bounds, too talkative. See
Malapert.
Owers, l. 34, see pryme.
Pater noster, say yours, l. 26, 77.
Pendable, l. 455, O., Fr. pendable, hangable, that deserves hanging, thats fit to be hanged. Cot.
Poor table, men to be cheerful at, l. 253.
Presumption, beware of, l. 492.
Pride, beware of, l. 492.
Print your words in your mind before you speak them, l. 282.
Pryme & owers, l. 34. 'The prime and other hours are the services Ad primam horam, Ad tertiam, Ad sextam, and Ad nonam, found in the Primer, or layman's prayer-book. They are sometimes called the middle hours, as distinguished from Matins and Vespers.' H. Bradshaw.
Quaire, l. 520, 526, 532, quire, pamphlet, treatise.
Ravenous, don't be, l. 176.
Read eloquent books, l. 310.
Rehersaylle, l. 288, rehearsal, repetition.
Repeat conversations, don't, l. 288.
Report (tale-telling) is the chief nurse of mischief, l. 135.
Reward, l. 127, look at, watch.
Rising, what to do on, l. 23.
Secret, keep what you hear, l. 134.
Sewe, l. 481, follow, pursue.
Silence, keep, l. 140; in hall, l. 204.
Siluerous, l. 403, O., silvern.
Singing lustily is good for a child, l. 304.
Speak fair to folks, l. 60.
Speaking, the conditions to be observed in, l. 143.
Spoon, don't put it in your dish or on the table, l. 267.
Surplusage, l. 518, rest, remainder.
Syttyng, l. 302, fit, suitable. 'Syttyng or convenyent—m. asseant … aduenant.' Palsgrave.
Table, how to wait at, l. 113.
Tacches, l. 176, tache, l. 198; Fr. tache, a spot, staine, blemish.
Cot.
Taches, H., teches, O., l. 453, manners.
Teeth, don't pick 'em with your knife, l. 248.
Terre, l. 67; tar, to set on, provoke; O. Fr. atarier. They have terrid thee to ire. Wiclif, Psalms. Sc. tirr, to snarl; quarrelsome, crabbed. Wedgwood.
Thewed, l. 20, mannered.
Towel, don't soil it, l. 263, 266.
Traverse, l. 242, change from side to side.
Trencher; keep yours clean, l. 269.
Trety, l. 529, treatise.
True as the gospel, l. 503.
Weyne, l. 166, A.S. wanian, to diminish, take away.
Wind, break not, up or down, l. 202.
Wise man, the; his marks of a youth likely to be had, l. 104;—his counsel as to speaking, l. 137, 147.
Women, always take good heed to them, l. 506.
Wyndlese, l. 471, windlass.
Yanglers, l. 207, chatterers.
Ydellye, l. 315, idly.
Ynympariable, l. 380, unequalled, L. par, Fr. pareil, equal, like.