Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3) / Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

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FOOTNOTES:

[465] Vid. Lasiteau, Moeurs de Sauvages, t. ii. Dr. Browne's Hist. of the Rise and Progress of Poetry.

[466] "Germani celebrant carminibus antiquis (quod unum apud illos memoriæ et annalium genus est) Tuistonem," &c. Tacit. Germ. c. ii.

[467] Barth. Antiq. Dan. lib. i. cap. x. Wormii Literatura Runica, ad finem.

[468] See Northern Antiquities, or a Description of the Manners, Customs, &c., of the ancient Danes and other Northern Nations, translated from the Fr. of M. Mallet, 1770, 2 vols. 8vo. (vol. i. p. 49, &c.)

[469] Vid. infra, pp. 341, 342, &c.

[470] Viz. Astræa, Cassandra, Clelia, &c.

[471] Mallet, vid. Northern Antiquities, vol. i. p. 318, &c.; vol. ii. p. 234, &c.

[472] Letters concerning Chivalry, 8vo. 1763.

[473] Mallet.

[474] Mallet.

[475] The seeds of chivalry sprung up so naturally out of the original manners and opinions of the northern nations, that it is not credible they arose so late as after the establishment of the Feudal System, much less the Crusades. Nor, again, that the romances of chivalry were transmitted to other nations, through the Spaniards, from the Moors and Arabians. Had this been the case the first French romances of chivalry would have been on Moorish, or at least Spanish subjects: whereas the most ancient stories of this kind, whether in prose or verse, whether in Italian, French, English, &c., are chiefly on the subjects of Charlemagne and the Paladins, or of our British Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, &c., being evidently borrowed from the fabulous chronicles of the supposed Archbishop Turpin and of Jeffery of Monmouth. Not but some of the oldest and most popular French romances are also on Norman subjects, as Richard Sans-peur, Robert le Diable, &c., whereas I do not recollect so much as one in which the scene is laid in Spain, much less among the Moors, or descriptive of Mahometan manners. Even in Amadis de Gaul, said to have been the first romance printed in Spain, the scene is laid in Gaul and Britain; and the manners are French: which plainly shews from what school this species of fabling was learnt and transmitted to the southern nations of Europe.

[476] Mallet. North. Antiquities, vol. i. p. 36; vol. ii. passim.

[477] Olaus Verelius, Herv. Saga, pp. 44, 45. Hickes's Thesaur. vol. ii. p. 311. Northern Antiquities, vol. ii. passim.

[478] Ibid. vol. i. pp. 69, 374, &c.; vol. ii. p. 216, &c.

[479] Rollof's Saga, c. 35, &c.

[480] It is peculiarly unfortunate that such as maintain this opinion are obliged to take their first step from the Moorish provinces in Spain, without one intermediate resting place, to Armorica or Bretagne, the province in France from them most remote, not more in situation than in the manners, habits, and language of its Welsh inhabitants, which are allowed to have been derived from this island, as must have been their traditions, songs, and fables; being doubtless all of Celtic original. See p. [3] of the Dissertation on the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe, prefixed to Mr. Tho. Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. i. 1774, 4to. If any pen could have supported this darling hypothesis of Dr. Warburton that of this ingenious critic would have effected it. But under the general term Oriental, he seems to consider the ancient inhabitants of the north and the south of Asia, as having all the same manners, traditions, and fables; and because the secluded people of Arabia took the lead under the religion and empire of Mahomet, therefore everything must be derived from them to the Northern Asiatics in the remotest ages, &c. With as much reason under the word Occidental, we might represent the early traditions and fables of the north and south of Europe to have been the same; and that the Gothic mythology of Scandinavia, the Druidic or Celtic of Gaul and Britain, differed not from the classic of Greece and Rome.

There is not room here for a full examination of the minuter arguments, or rather slight coincidences, by which our agreeable dissertator endeavours to maintain and defend this favourite opinion of Dr. W., who has been himself so completely confuted by Mr. Tyrwhitt. (See his notes on Love's Labour Lost, &c.) But some of his positions it will be sufficient to mention: such as the referring the Gog and Magog, which our old Christian bards might have had from Scripture, to the Jaguiouge and Magiouge of the Arabians and Persians, &c. (p. [13]). That "we may venture to affirm that this (Geoffrey of Monmouth's) Chronicle, supposed to contain the ideas of the Welsh bards, entirely consists of Arabian inventions" (p. [13]). And that, "as Geoffrey's history is the grand repository of the acts of Arthur, so a fabulous history ascribed to Turpin is the groundwork of all the chimerical legends which have been related concerning the conquests of Charlemagne and his twelve peers. Its subject is the expulsion of the Saracens from Spain, and it is filled with fictions evidently congenial to those which characterize Geoffrey's History" (p. [17]). That is, as he afterwards expresses it, "lavishly decorated by the Arabian fablers" (p. [58]). We should hardly have expected that the Arabian fablers would have been lavish in decorating a history of their enemy: but what is singular, as an instance and proof of this Arabian origin of the fictions of Turpin, a passage is quoted from his fourth chapter, which I shall beg leave to offer, as affording decisive evidence, that they could not possibly be derived from a Mahometan source. Sc. "The Christians under Charlemagne are said to have found in Spain a golden idol, or image of Mahomet, as high as a bird can fly—it was framed by Mahomet himself of the purest metal, who, by his knowledge in necromancy, had sealed up within it a legion of diabolical spirits. It held in its hand a prodigious club; and the Saracens had a prophetic tradition, that this club should fall from the hand of the image in that year when a certain king should be born in France, &c." (vid. p. [18], note.)

[481] The little narrative songs on Morisco subjects, which the Spaniards have at present in great abundance, and which they call peculiarly romances, (see vol. i. book iii. no. xvi. &c.), have nothing in common with their proper romances (or histories) of chivalry, which they call Historias de Cavallerias; these are evidently imitations of the French, and shew a great ignorance of Moorish manners: and with regard to the Morisco, or song romances, they do not seem of very great antiquity; few of them appear, from their subjects, much earlier than the reduction of Granada, in the fifteenth century: from which period, I believe, may be plainly traced among the Spanish writers, a more perfect knowledge of Moorish customs, &c.

[482] See Northern Antiquities, passim.

[483] Ibid.

[484] Saxon Gram. p. 152, 153. Mallet, North. Antiq. vol. i. p. 321.

[485] See a translation of this poem, among Five pieces of Runic Poetry, printed for Dodsley, 1764, 8vo.

[486] Vid. Mallet, Northern Antiquities, passim.

[487] The editor's MS. contains a multitude of poems of this latter kind. It was probably from this custom of the minstrels that some of our first historians wrote their chronicles in verse, as Rob. of Gloucester, Harding, &c.

[488] See a specimen in 2d vol. of Northern Antiquities, &c., p. 248, &c.

[489] Eccardi Hist. Stud. Etym. 1711, p. 179, &c. Hickes's Thesaur. vol. ii. p. 314.

[490] i.e. Northern men, being chiefly emigrants from Norway, Denmark, &c.

[491] See the account of Taillefer in vol. i. Essay, and Note.

[492] "Ipsa Carmina memoriæ mandabant, & prælia inituri decantabant; qua memoriâ tam fortium gestorum a majoribus patratorum ad imitationem animus adderetur."—Jornandes de Gothis.

[493] Eginhartus de Carolo magno. "Item barbara, & antiquissima carmina, quibus veterum regum actus & bella canebantur, scripsit."—c. 29.

Asserius de Ælfredo magno. "Rex inter bella, &c.... Saxonicos libros recitare, & maxime carmina Saxonica memoriter discere, aliis imperare, & solus assidue pro viribus, studiosissime non desinebat."—Ed. 1722, 8vo. p. 43.

[494] See above, pp. [340], 347.

[495] The romances on the subject of Perceval, San Graal, Lancelot du Lac, Tristan, &c., were among the first that appeared in the French language in prose, yet these were originally composed in metre: the editor has in his possession a very old French MS. in verse, containing L'ancien Roman de Perceval, and metrical copies of the others may be found in the libraries of the curious. See a note of Wanley's in Harl. Catalog. Num. 2252, p. 49, &c. Nicholson's Eng. Hist. Library, 3rd ed. p. 91, &c. See also a curious collection of old French romances, with Mr. Wanley's account of this sort of pieces, in Harl. MSS. Catal. 978, 106.

[496] The author of the Essay on the Genius of Pope, p. 282.

[497] Ibid. p. 283. Hist. Lit. tom. 6, 7.

[498] Voir Preface aux "Fabliaux & Contes des Poetes François des xii. xiii. xiv. & xv. siècles, &c., Paris, 1756, 3 tom. 12mo." (a very curious work).

[499] Vid. supra, note (d), vol. i. Essay, &c. Et vide Rapin, Carte, &c. This song of Roland (whatever it was) continued for some centuries to be usually sung by the French in their marches, if we may believe a modern French writer. "Un jour qu'on chantoit la Chanson de Roland, comme c'etoit l'usage dans les marches. Il y a long temps, dit il (John K. of France, who died in 1364), qu'on ne voit plus de Rolands parmi les François. On y verroit encore des Rolands, lui répondit un vieux capitaine, s'ils avoient un Charlemagne à leur tête." Vid. tom. iii. p. 202, des Essaies Hist. sur Paris, de M. de Saintefoix: who gives as his authority, Boethius in Hist. Scotorum. This author, however, speaks of the complaint and repartee, as made in an Assembly of the States (vocato senatu), and not upon any march, &c. Vid. Boeth. lib. xv. vol. 327. Ed. Paris, 1574.

[500] See on this subject, vol. i. note, s. 2, p. 404; and in note G g, p. 424, &c.

[501] The first romances of chivalry among the Germans were in metre: they have some very ancient narrative songs (which they call Lieder) not only on the fabulous heroes of their own country, but also on those of France and Britain, as Tristram, Arthur, Gawain, and the knights von der Tafel-ronde (vid. Goldasti Not. in Eginhart. Vit. Car. Mag. 4to. 1711, p. 207.)

[502] The Welsh have still some very old romances about K. Arthur; but as these are in prose, they are not probably their first pieces that were composed on that subject.

[503] It is most credible that these stories were originally of English invention, even if the only pieces now extant should be found to be translations from the French. What now pass for the French originals were probably only amplifications, or enlargements of the old English story. That the French romances borrowed some things from the English, appears from the word termagant.

[504] Recuyel of the Hystoryes of Troy, 1471; Godfroye of Boloyne, 1481; Le Morte de Arthur, 1485; The Life of Charlemagne, 1485, &c. As the old minstrelsy wore out, prose books of chivalry became more admired, especially after the Spanish romances began to be translated into English towards the end of Q. Elizabeth's reign: then the most popular metrical romances began to be reduced into prose, as Sir Guy, Bevis, &c.

[505] See extract from a letter, written by the editor of these volumes, in Mr. Warton's Observations, vol. ii. p. 139.

[506] Canterbury Tales (Tyrwhitt's edit.), vol. ii. p. 238. In all the former editions which I have seen the name at the end of the fourth line is Blandamoure.

[507] Dr. Grey has shewn that the same story is alluded to in Rastell's Chronicle: as it was doubtless originally had from the romance, this is proof that the old metrical romances throw light on our first writers in prose: many of our ancient historians have recorded the fictions of romance.

[508] i.e. handkerchiefs. Here we have the etymology of the word, viz. "Couvre le Chef."

[509] i.e. slipt aside.

[510] i.e. yawned.

[511] i.e. hurt.

[512] Dr. Warburton.—Dr. Grey.

[513] So it is intitled in the editor's MS. But the true title is Le Beaux Disconus, or the Fair Unknown. See a note on the Canterbury Tales, vol. iv. p. 333.

[514] Vid. Discours sur la Poesie Epique, prefixed to Télémaque.

[515] i.e. May all they be blithe that to my song listen: A song I shall you sing, Of Allof the good king, &c.

[516] In each full page of this volume are forty-four lines, when the poem is in long metre: and eighty-eight when the metre is short, and the page in two columns.

[517] Sign. K. 2. b.

[518] For this and most of the following, which are mentioned as preserved in the Public Library, I refer the reader to the Oxon Catalogue of MSS., 1697, vol. ii p. 394; in Appendix to Bp. More's MSS. No. 690, 33, since given to the University of Cambridge.

[519] No. 690, § 31. Vid. Catalog. MSS. p. 394.

[520] In the former editions, after the above, followed mention of a fragment in the same MS., intitled, Sir Lionel, in distichs (p. [32]) [pr. ed. vol. i. p. 75]; but this being only a short ballad, and not relating to K. Arthur, is here omitted.

[521] The French original is preserved among the Harl. MSS. No. 978, § 112, Lanval.

[522] See Laneham's Letter concern. Q. Eliz. entertainment at Killingworth, 1575, 12mo. p. 34.

[523] No. 690. (30.) Vid. Oxon Catalog. MSS. p. 394.

[524] This is alluded to by Shakespeare in his Hen. V. (Act v.), where Fluellyn tells Pistol, he will make him a squire of low degree, when he means, to knock him down.

[525] Some of these I give, though mutilated and divested of their titles, because they may enable a curious inquirer to complete or improve other copies.

[526] i.e. adventure.

[GLOSSARY]
TO THE THREE VOLUMES.

This is an amalgamation of the three original glossaries, with large additions and alterations, and the introduction of references. It has not, however, been thought necessary to refer to every passage in which a particular word may occur.

Percy's explanatory notes are marked with the letter P.

Many words which appear in a slightly varied form from the present spelling are not included in this glossary.

A', all.
A, at.
A, i. 27, of.
Watter a Twyde, i. 25, water of Tweed.
Abacke, back.
Abenche, i. 409, on a bench.
Able, i. 87, fit, suitable.
Abone, i. 24;
aboon, i. 323;
aboone, i. 101;
aboun, i. 32, above.
Aboven ous, ii. 8, above us.
Abowght, i. 40, about.
Abraide, i. 168, abroad.
Abuve, ii. 83, in the uplands.
Abye, iii. [31], suffer, pay for, expiate.
Acton, i. 72, a quilted leather jacket, worn under the coat of mail. Fr. hacqueton.
Advoutry, ii. 136, adultery.
Aff, ii. 70, off.
Affore, i. 269;
afore, ii. 115, before.
Aft, i. 321, oft.
Agayne, i. 121, against.
Ageyn, i. 119, against.
Agone, ii. 41, gone.
Ahte, ii. 11, ought.
Aik, iii. [147], oak.
Ail, ii. 84, trouble.
Ain, i. 102, own.
Aith, ii. 70, oath.
Al, ii. 9, albeit, although.
Al gife, although.
Alace, iii. [236], alas.
Alane, ii. 83, alone.
Alemaigne, ii. 7, Germany.
Allgyf, i. 125, although.
Almaine, iii. [110], Germany.
Alyes, ii. 33, always.
Amang, ii. 20, among.
Amangis, ii. 81, amongst.
Amblit, iii. [237], ambled.
Among, ii. 35, at intervals, sometimes.
An, and.
An, i, 60, if.
Ancyent, i. 271, flag, banner, standard.
And, if, but and, i. 27;
but if; and youe, if you.
And but, ii. 15, and unless.
Ane, i. 30, ii. 118, one, an, a.
Anes, ii. 112, once, ii. 109. (?)
Angel, ii. 176, a gold coin varying in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s.
Ann, ii. 69, if.
Anneuche, ii. 81, enough.
Annoy, ii. 211, trouble.
Ant, ii. 7, and.
Aplyht, al aplyht, ii. 14, entirely.
Aquoy, iii. [247], coy, shy.
Ar, ii. 24, are.
Aras, i. 24, arrows.
Archeborde, ii. 193, 203, side of the ship? See Hach-borde.
Arcir, i. 103, archer.
Argabushe, ii. 53, harquebuse, an old-fashioned kind of musket.
Arrand, i. 80, errand.
Arros, i. 28, arrows.
Ase, ii. 8, as.
Aslake, ii. 37, abate.
Assay, i. 80, essay, assayed, ii. 44.
Assoyld, i. 179, absolved.
Astate, i. 119, estate.
Astonied, iii. [34], astonished, stunned.
Astound, i. 207, stunned.
Ath, i. 25, of the.
Att me, i. 207, from me.
Attour, ii. 81;
attowre, ii. 84, 86, over.
Au, iii. [75], all.
Auld, i. 83, 101, ii. 68, old.
Aule, i. 308, awl.
Aureat, i. 123, golden.
Austerne, i. 285, stern, austere.
Avaunce, ii. 49, advance.
Avow, iii. [327];
avowe, i. 23, 34, 47, 172;
ii. 23, 58, vow.
Aw, iii. [145], all.
Awa', ii. 69, away.
Awin, ii. 133, own.
Awne, i. 121, 274, own.
Axed, i. 129, asked.
Ay, ii. 70, ever;
also ah! alas!
Ayein, ii. 12, against.
Ayont the ingle, ii. 68, beyond the fire.
The fire was in the middle of the room.

"In the west of Scotland, at this present time, in many cottages, they pile their peats and turfs upon stones in the middle of the room. There is a hole above the fire in the ridge of the house to let the smoke out at. In some places are cottage-houses, from the front of which a very wide chimney projects like a bow-window: the fire is in a grate, like a malt-kiln grate, round which the people sit: sometimes they draw this grate into the middle of the room." (Mr. Lambe.) P.

Ba', i. 59, ball.
Bacheleere, i. 64, 78, knight;
bachelary, ii. 28;
bachelery, ii. 23, company of bachelors.
Badena, iii. [93], delayed not.
Baile, i. 122, bale, evil, mischief, misery, trouble.
Bairn, ii. 70;
bairne, i. 59, child.
Baith, i. 143, 321, both.
Bale, i. 108, 280, ii. 8, 59, evil, hurt, mischief, misery;
baleful, i. 136.
Balow, ii. 211 (a nursery term), hush, lullaby.
Balys bete, i. 35, remedy our evils.
Ban, ii. 70, curse.
Band, i. 70, 148, bond, covenant.
Bandrolles, iii. [290], streamers, little flags.
Bane, i. 29, bone.
Banket, ii. 225, banquet.
Banning, ii. 212, cursing.
Barker, ii. 96, dealer in bark.
Barne, i. 26, child, man, person.
Barrow hogge, i. 214, gelded hog.
Basnete, i. 29, basnite, i. 28, bassonett, i. 48, helmet.
Bason, helmet.
Batchilere, i. 68, knight.
Bathe, i. 30, both.
Bats, ii. 21, cudgels.
Bauld, i. 321, bold.
Bauzen's skinne, i. 308, Sheepskin gloves with the wool on the inside.
Bayard, ii. 22, a noted horse in the old romances.
Be, ii. 9, by.
Beanes, ii. 203, beams.
Bearing arowe, i. 176, an arrow that carries well.
Bed, ii. 13, bade.
Bede, ii. 21, 23, bid, offer, engage.
Bedeaft, iii. [272], deafened.
Bedeene, ii. 57, iii. [11], immediately.
Bedight, i. 132, bedecked.
Bedone, iii. [6], [237], wrought, made-up, ornamented.
Beere, i. 50, iii. [42], bier.
Beforn, i. 321;
beforne, i. 29, 65, before.
Begilde, ii. 76;
begylde, ii. 44, beguiled, deceived.
Beheard, i. 114, heard.
Behove, i. 180, behoof.
Beir, i. 84;
beire, ii. 212, bear.
Belive, i. 115;
belyfe, i. 173, immediately, presently, shortly.
Ben, ii. 15, 16, iii. [208], been, be, are.
Ben, ii. 70, within doors, the inner room.
(The "but" is the outer room. "A but and a ben" is a house containing two rooms.)
Bene, ii. 16, bean, an expression of contempt.
Benison, i. 322, blessing.
Bent, bents, long coarse grass, i. 24, 25, 28;
also wild fields, i. 41,
43, 65, 78.
Beoth, ii. 11, be, are.
Ber, ii. 13, bare.
Ber the prys, ii. 11, bare the prize.
Berne, i. 41, man.
Bernes, iii. [208], barns.
Berys, ii. 21, beareth.
Beseeme, become.
Besene, ii. 25, dressed.
Beshradde, iii. [317], cut into shreds.
Besmirche, to soil, discolour.
Bespake, iii. [158], spoke.
Besprent, ii. 52, besprinkled.
Beste, beest, art.
Beste, i. 189, beast.
Bested, abode.
Bestis, i. 122, beasts.
Bestrawghted, i. 189, distracted.
Besy, i. 129, busy.
Bet, better.
Beth, i. 284, be, is, are.
Bett, ii. 63, lighted.
A. S. bétan fyr, to make or light a fire.
Bette, iii. [356], did beat.
Beuche, ii. 391, bough.
Bewray, ii. 179, discover.
Bi mi leautè, ii. 7, by my loyalty, honesty.
Bickarte, i. 24, skirmished;
also swiftly coursed.

Mr. Lambe also interprets "Bickering," by rattling, e.g.,

And on that slee Ulysses head
Sad curses down does BICKER.

Translat. of Ovid. P.

Bide at hame, iii. [97], remain at home.
Biilt, ii. 63, built.
Bil, i. 168, pike or halbert.
Bille, i. 282, 289, ii. 143, writing.
Biqueth, ii. 12, bequeath.
Bird, iii. [94], child, term of affection usually applied to a woman.
Birk, ii. 363, iii. [238], birch-tree.
Blak, ii. 21;
blake, ii. 21, black.
Blan, i. 269;
blane, i. 30;
blanne, i. 68, 91, 275, ii. 144, lingered, stopped.
Blaw, i. 145, iii. [147], blow;
blawing, iii. [147], blowing.
Blaze, ii. 260, emblazon, display.
Blee, i. 72, ii. 56, colour, complexion.
Bleid, iii. [94], bleed;
bleids, ii. 116, bleeds.
Blend, iii. [55];
blent, iii. [51], blended.
Blent, ceased.
Blink, ii. 120, a glimpse of light.
Blinkan, iii. [123], twinkling.
Blinks, iii. [74], twinkles, sparkles.
Blinne, iii. [46], cease, give over.
Blissing, iii. [208], blessing.
Blist, i. 310, blessed.
Blude, i. 34, blood;
blude reid, i. 100, blood red.
Bluid, i. 59, 83 blood;
bluidy, i. 144, bloody;
reid bluid, red blood, i. 146.
Blyth, ii. 68, joyous, sprightly.
Blyth, iii. [74], joy, sprightliness.
Blyve, i. 175, instantly.
Bode, i. 120, abode, stayed.
Boist, boisteris, boast, boasters.
Boke, ii. 16, book.
Bollys, ii. 21, bowls.
Boltes, shafts, arrows.
Bomen, i. 24, bowmen.
Bonny, iii. [147], handsome, comely.
Bonys, ii. 22, bones.
Roundebonys, ii. 22.
Bookes-man, iii. [52], clerk, secretary.
Boot, ii. 97;
boote, i. 109, 115, 136, ii. 59;
boots, iii. [154], gain, advantage, help, assistance.
Bore, iii. [112], boar.
Bore, iii. [40], born.
Borowe, i. 162, to redeem.
Borrow, i. 275, borrowe, i. 269, pledge, surety.
Bost, ii. 24, boste, i. 122, pride;
boast, ii. 8.
Bot, ii. 60, but.
Bot, ii. 109, without;
bot and, i. 144, and also;
bot dreid, without dread, or certainly;
bot gif, ii. 83, unless.
Bots, iii. [186], a worm troublesome to horses.
Bougill, i. 147, bugle-horn, hunting-horn.
Boun, i. 146, ready.
Bowen, ii. 44, ready.
Bower, iii. [125], [126], [131], parlour, chamber.
Bower-window, iii. [125], chamber window.
Bowne, i. 63, 77, ii. 94, ready;
bowned, prepared;
bowne ye, i. 107, prepare ye, get ready;
bowne to dine, going to dine.
Bowne is a common word in the North for "going," e.g. Where are you bowne to? Where are you going to? P.
Bow're-woman, iii. [96], chambermaid.
Bowyn, i. 41, ready.
Bowynd, i. 40, prepared.
Bowys, i. 28, bows.
Brade, ii. 107, 112, broad.
Brae, iii. [147], the brow or side of a hill, a declivity.
Braes of Yarrow, ii. 363, hilly banks of the river Yarrow.
Braid, broad.
Braid, i. 100, open.
Brand, i. 83, 96;
brande, i. 25, 30, 40, 48, 67, sword.
Brast, i. 66, 168, ii. 56, 98, iii. [61], burst.
Braw, ii. 227, brave.
Braw, ii. 69, bravely, handsomely.
Brayd attowre the bent, ii. 84, hastened over the field.
Brayn-pannes, ii. 25, skulls.
Bread, ii. 192, breadth.
Bred, i. 43, broad.
Breeden, i. 108, breed.
Breere, i. 111, briar.
Bren, i. 80, 145;
brenn, ii. 57, burn.
Brenand drake, ii. 23, fiery dragon.
Brenn, i. 144;
brenne, i. 73, 159, burn;
brent, i. 160, ii. 55, iii. [87], burnt;
brenning, ii. 142, burning.
Brest, i. 29, breast.
Brest, ii. 21, burst.
Brether, i. 87, brethren.
Bridal (bride-ale), nuptial feast.
Brigue, iii. [95];
briggs, iii. [92], bridge.
Brimme, ii. 257, public, universally known;
A.-S. bryme.
Britled, iii. [12], carved.
Broche, ii. 22, any ornamental trinket. Stone buckles of silver or gold with which gentlemen and ladies clasp their shirt-bosoms, and handkerchiefs, are called in the North broches, from the Fr. broche, a spit. P.
Brocht, ii. 85, brought.
Broder, ii. 360, brother.
Broding, i. 64, 78, pricking.
Broht, ii. 13;
brohte, ii. 8, brought.
Bronde, i. 49, sword.
Brooche, brouche, a spit, a bodkin.
Brooke, enjoy;
and I brook, i. 34, if I enjoy.
Brouke hur wyth wynne, ii. 20, enjoy her with pleasure.
Browd, i. 24, broad.
Broyt, ii. 21, brought.
Bryttlynge, i. 25, cutting up, quartering, carving.
Buen, ii. 12;
bueth, ii. 13, been, be, are.
Buff, i. 150, arm, dress.
Bugle, i. 65, 78, bugle horn, hunting horn (being the horn of a bugle or wild bull).
Buik, book.
Buit, ii. 81, help.
Burgens, ii. 383, buds, young shoots.
Burn, iii. [147], bourne, brook.
Bushment, i. 122, ambush, snare.
Busk, i. 146, dress, deck;
busk ye, i. 107, ii. 363, dress ye;
busk and boun, i. 146, make yourselves ready to go;
buske them blyve, i. 175, get them ready instantly;
buskit, i. 143, dressed;
buskt them, i. 122, prepared themselves, made themselves ready.
But, without;
but let, without hindrance.
But, i. 75, ii. 144, unless;
but an, i. 144, unless;
but yf, ii. 23, unless.
Bute, ii. 83, boot, good, advantage.
Butt, ii. 70, the outer room.
See Ben.
By three, of three.
Byde, ii. 83, stay.
Bydys, i. 28, bides, abides.
Bye, buy, pay for.
Byears, i. 33, beeres, biers.
Byhynde, ii. 19, behind.
Byre, iii. [236], cow-house.
Byste, i. 41, beest, art.
Ca', iii. [93], call.
Caddis, i. 376, worsted ribbon.
Cadgily, ii. 68, merrily, cheerfully.
Caitif, iii. [228];
caitive, ii. 135, wretch.
Cales, ii. 243, Cadiz.
Calliver, a large pistol or blunderbuss.
Camscho, iii. [385].
(Glossary—Eldridge) grim.
Can, i. 44, 77, ii. 24, 70;
cane, i. 47, gan, began.
Can, ii. 37, know.
Canna, iii. [123];
cannæ, i. 59, 146, cannot.
Cannes, wooden cups, bowls.
Cantabanqui, i. 374, ballad-singers, singers on benches.
Cantells, ii. 23, pieces, corners.
Canty, ii. 69, cheerful, chatty.
Capul, ii. 24, a poor horse;
capulys, ii. 24, horses.
Capull hyde, i. 107, 114, horse hide.
Carle, ii. 68, iii. [123], clown, a strong, hale old man.
Carlish, i. 133, iii. [14], churlish, discourteous.
Carlist, iii. [329], churlish?
Carp, ii. 136;
carpe, ii. 19, to speak, recite, also to censure, i. 33, complain.
Carpyng, ii. 20, tumult.
Cast, i. 26, mean, intend.
Caste, ii. 128, stratagem.
Catives, ii. 302, wretches.
Cau, ii. 71, call.
Cauld, i. 143, ii. 68, cold.
Causey, ii. 139, causeway.
Cawte and kene, i. 44, cautious and active.
Cent, i. 130, scent.
Cetywall, i. 307, setiwall, the herb valerian, or mountain spikenard.
Cham, ii. 288, I am, in Somersetshire dialect.
Chanteclere, i. 307, the cock.
Chap, iii. [93], [95], knock.
Charke-bord, ii. 203? same as archeborde, side of the ship.
See Hach-borde.
Chayme, ii. 74, Cain, or Ham.
Chays, i. 26, chase.
Che, ii. 286, I. in Somersetshire dialect.
Cheare, ii. 216, chair.
Checke, i. 301, to stop, to chide.
Cheefe, the upper part of the scutcheon in heraldry.
Cheffe, i. 28, chief;
cheffest, iii. [44], chiefest.
Cheften, i. 28, chieftain.
Cheis, choose.
Chevaliers, knights.
Cheveron, ii. 25, upper part of the scutcheon in heraldry.
Chevy Chase, i. 19, Cheviot chase or hunt.
See same contraction in Tividale.
Chield, fellow.
Child, iii. [58], knight.
Children, i. 66, 77, knights.
Chill, ii. 286, I will, in Somersetshire dialect.
Cholde, y-cholde, ii. 12, I would.
Choul'd, ii. 287, I would, in Som. dialect.
Christentie, christentye, i. 92, ii. 61;
christianté, i. 31, Christendom.
Church-ale, iii. [198], a wake or feast in commemoration of the dedication of a church.
Chyf, chyfe, chief.
Chylded, ii. 382, brought forth, was delivered.
Chylder, ii. 25, children's.
Chyviat chays, i. 26. (See Chevy Chase.)
Claiths, ii. 69, clothes.
Clattered, beat so as to rattle.
Clawde, clawed, tore, scratched;
figuratively, beat.
Clead, ii. 69, clad, clothe;
cleading, iii. [237], clothing.
Cleaped, i. 306, called, named.
Cled, iii. [147], clad, clothed.
Clepe, ii. 13, call;
cleped, ii. 14, called.
Cliding, iii. [97], clothing.
Clim, i. 155, contraction of Clement.
Clough, i. 155, a broken cliff.
Clout, i. 197, a cloth to strain milk through;
rag, ii. 71.
Clout, ii. 100, mend.
Clowch, clutch, grasp.
Clymme, ii. 74, climb.
Coate, i. 309, cot, cottage.
Cockers, i. 308, a sort of buskins or short boots fastened with laces or buttons, worn by farmers or shepherds.
Cokers, fishermen's boots (Littleton's Dict.)
Cog, iii. [203], to lie, cheat.
Cohorted, ii. 382, incited, exhorted.
Cokenay, ii. 28, explained by Percy to be a diminutive of cook, from the Latin coquinator, or coquinarius; it really means a lean chicken.
Cold, ii. 232;
colde, ii. 55, could.
Cold, iii. [6], knew,
where I cold be;
i. 286, where I was.
Cold rost, nothing to the purpose.
Cole, iii. [108], coal.
Coleyne, iii. [33], Cologne steel.
Collayne, i. 48, Cologne steel.
Com, ii. 12;
come, ii. 21, came;
comen, i. 89;
commen, i. 33, come.
Con, ii. 27, can.
Con fare, went, passed.
Con springe, ii. 11, spread abroad.
Con twenty thanks, iii. [210], give twenty thanks.
Confeterd, i. 120, confederated.
Confound, i. 218, destroy.
Contray, ii. 19, country.
Cop, ii. 9, head, the top of anything.
Coppell, ii. 21, name of a hen.
Cordiwin, i. 318, originally Spanish or Cordovan leather, afterwards commoner leather.
Cors, ii. 21, body.
Cors, i. 26, curse.
Corsiare, i. 30, courser, steed.
Coste, ii. 30, coast, side, region.
Cote, i. 303;
cott, iii. [183], cottage.
Cote, iii. [53], coat.
Cotydyallye, ii. 381, daily, every day.
Could bear, ii. 137, did bare.
Could be, was.
Could dye, died.
Could his good, knew what was good for him.
Could weip, wept.
Coulde, cold.
Counsayl, secret.
Countie, i. 303, count, earl.
Coupe, i. 300, coop, or a pen for poultry.
Courtas, ii. 82, courteous.
Courteys, ii. 46, courteous.
Courtnalls, iii. [182], courtiers.
Couth, i. 306, could.
Couthen, ii. 13, knew.
Cowde, i. 44, could.
Coyntrie, i. 308, Coventry.
Cramasie, iii. [75], [147], crimson.
Crancke, i. 307, exultingly.
Cranion, iii. [198], skull.
Crech, ii. 27.
This word is incorrectly explained in the text as crutch. It is really a form of the French crèche, a crib or manger. It occurs as cracche in the "Promptorium Parv." (1440).
Crepyls, ii. 24, cripples.
Cricke, i. 196, properly an ant, but used for any small insect.
Crinkle, iii. [10], run in and out, run into flexures, wrinkle.
Cristes cors, Christ's corse.
Croche, ii. 312, crouch.
Croft, ii. 22, inclosure near a house.
Crois, ii. 13;
croiz, ii. 12, cross.
Crook, ii. 70, twist, wrinkle, distort;
crook my knee, ii. 71, make lame my knee.
They say in the North "the horse is crookit," i.e. lame;
the "horse crooks," i.e. goes lame. P.
Crouneth, ii. 12, crown ye.
Crowch, i. 180, crutch.
Crown, i. 26, head.
Crowt, iii. [10], to pucker up, draw close together.
(Another form of crowd.)
Crumpling, ii. 257, crooked, horned.
Cryance, i. 65, 66, 78, fear.
Cule, ii. 229, cool.
Cum, i. 28, 59, 101, 143;
ii. 132, come, came.
Cummer, ii. 133, gossip, friend;
Fr. commère, compère.
Cure, ii. 76, care, heed, regard.
Dale, deal;
bot gif I dale, ii. 83, unless I share.
Dampned, i. 161, damned, condemned.
Dan, an ancient title of respect, from Lat. Dominus.
Danske, ii. 254, Denmark.
Dare, ii. 360, their;
ii. 361, there.
Darh, ii. 14, need.
Darr'd, ii. 118, hit.
Dart the tree, ii. 115, hit the tree.
Dat, ii. 360, that.
Daunger halt, ii. 16, fear holdeth.
Dawes, iii. [368], days.
Dawkin, ii. 19, diminutive of David.
De, ii. 360, the.
De, i. 26, 30, die.
Dealan, iii. [134], dealing.
Deare, ii. 308, hurt.
Deare, iii. [82], dearly.
Deas, iii. the high table in a hall.
F. dais, a canopy.
Ded, ii. 26;
dede, i. 30, dead.
Dede is do, ii. 36, deed is done.
Dee, iii. [99], die.
Deemed, iii. [52];
deemedst, ii. 217, doomed, judged; thus in the Isle of Man judges are called Deemsters. P.
Deere, ii. 304, hurt, mischief.
Deerely, ii. 194, iii. [27];
preciously, richly.
Default, i. 303, neglect.
Deid, ii. 83, dead;
deid bell, iii. [134], passing bell.
Deid, i. 101, 147, deed.
Deip, i. 60;
deep.
Deir, i. 83, 101;
dear.
Deir, iii. [96], dearly.
Deir, ii. 82, hurt, trouble.
Deie, ii. 35, deal, bit.
Dele, ii. 45, to deal.
Dell, deal, part;
every dell, every part.
Delt, iii. [119], dealt.
Dem, ii. 361, them.
Demaines, iii. [209], demesnes, estates.
Deme, ii. 265, judged, doomed.
Denay, i. 217, deny, refuse.
Dent, ii. 21, a dint, blow.
Deol, ii. 13, dole, grief.
Depart, ii. 37, separate;
departing, ii. 84, dividing.
Depured, i. 129, purified, run clear.
Deray, ii. 28, confusion.
Dere, ii. 20, dear, also hurt.
Dere, ii. 19, dire or sad.
A.-S. derian, to hurt. "My dearest foe"—Hamlet.
Dere, iii. [357], wild animals.
Derked, ii. 37, darkened.
Dern, ii. 82, secret;
I'dern, ii. 83, in secret.
Descreeve, i. 63, describe;
descrying, iii. [168], describing.
Devys, ii. 12, devise, the act of bequeathal by will.
Dey, ii. 361, they.
Dey, i. 33;
deye, ii. 12, die.
Did off, i. 114, took off;
did on, iii. [65], put on.
Dight, i. 63, 74;
dighte, ii. 162, decked, dressed, prepared, wrought, fitted out, done.
Diht, ii. 11, wrought;
ii. 12, sent.
Dill, ii. 82, share.
Dill, still, calm, mitigate.
Dill, i. 63, 77, 78, dole, grief, pain, sorrow;
dill I drye, i. 64, pain I suffer;
dill was dight, grief was upon him.
Dinge, iii. [51], knock, beat.
Dis, this.
Discreeve, i. 77, describe, or discover.
Disna, iii. [123], does not.
Disteynyd, i. 124, stained.
Distrere, iii. [108], the horse ridden by a knight in the tournament.
Do, ii. 36, done.
Dochter, i. 59, 145, ii. 68, daughter.
Dois, i. 59, 83, does.
Dois, days.
Dol, ii. 13;
dole, i. 63, 137, 292, dole, grief, sorrow.
Doleful dumps, i. 188, 261, sorrowful gloom or heaviness of heart.
Dolours, dolorous, mournful.
Don, iii. [208], do.
Don, ii. 23, be made.
Done roun, ii. 80, run down.
Dosend, iii. [123], dosing, drowsy, torpid, benumbed.
Doth, dothe, doeth, do.
Doubt, iii. [327], fear.
Doubteous, doubtful.
Dough, ii. 360, though.
Doughty, iii. [26];
doughtye, i. 305;
dowghtye, i. 40;
formidable.
Doughete, i. 28, a doughty man.
Dounae, i. 60, cannot.
Dout, ii. 23, fear.
Doute, i. 167, doubt.
Doutted, i. 123, redoubted, feared.
Douyty, doughty.
Doy-trogh, ii. 24, dough trough, a kneading trough.
Doys, i. 34, does.
Doyter, ii. 20, daughter.
Drake;
brenand drake, ii. 23, burning, fire-breathing dragon.
Drap, drop;
draping, ii. 114, drapping, iii. [97], dropping.
Dre, i. 31, 83, suffer.
Dreid, ii. 82, dread.
Dreips, i. 146, drips, drops.
Dreiry, iii. [100], dreary.
Drieps, iii. [146], drips, drops.
Drie, i. 144, suffer;
ill, i. 284;
undergo, i. 83.
Drighnes, i. 119, dryness.
Drogh, ii. 26, drew.
Drovyers, i. 254, drovers, cattle-drivers.
Drye, i. 49, 64, 78, suffer, endure.
Dryng, ii. 8, drink.
Duble dyse, double or false dice.
Dude, ii. 7, did;
dudest, ii. 9, didst.
Duel, ii. 11, grief.
Dughty, ii. 19, 26, doughty;
dughtynesse of dent, ii. 21, sturdiness of blows.
Dule, i. 83, 145, dole, grief, sorrow;
dulefu', ii. 69, doleful.
Dumps, i. 188, 261, ii. 69, heaviness of heart.
Dwellan, iii. [134], dwelling.
Dy, die;
dyan, iii. [134], dying.
Dyd on, i. 159, put on;
dyd off, i. 164, doffed, put off.
Dyght, i. 30, dressed, put on.
Dyht, ii. 14, to dispose, order.
Dynt, i. 30, dynte, i. 31, dyntes, i. 32, dint, blow, stroke.
Dystrayne, ii. 37, afflict.
Dyyt, ii. 24, dight, dressed.
Eame, uncle.
Eard, earth.
Earn, ii. 70, to curdle, make cheese.
Eathe, i. 273, easy.
Eather, iii. [100], either.
Eche, ii. 246, each.
Ee, i. 101, 178, ii. 60;
een, i. 320, eye, eyes.
Eene, iii. [75], even.
Effund, iii. [301], pour forth.
Eftsoon, iii. [304], in a short time.
Egge, ii. 259, to urge on.
Eik, ii. 83, also.
Eiked, ii. 85, added, enlarged.
Ein, i. 145, even.
Eir, i. 101, 146, 320, ever.
Eise, ii. 212, ease.
Eke, ii. 13, also.
Eldridge, i. 64, 78, wild, hideous, ghostly, lonesome, uninhabited.

"In the ballad of Sir Cauline we have 'Eldridge Hills,' p. [65], 'Eldridge Knight,' p. [65], 'Eldridge Sword,' p. [67]. So Gawin Douglas calls the Cyclops the 'Elriche Brethir,' i.e. brethren (b. ii. p. 91, l. 16), and in his Prologue to b. vii. (p. 202, l. 3) he thus describes the Night-Owl:—

"'Laithely of forme, with crukit camscho beik,
'Ugsome to here was his wyld elrische skreik.'

"In Bannatyne's MS. Poems (fol. 135, in the Advocate's Library at Edinburgh) is a whimsical rhapsody of a deceased old woman travelling in the other world; in which

"'Scho wanderit, and yeid by, to an Elrich well.'

"In the Glossary to G. Douglas, Elriche, &c. is explained by 'Wild, hideous: Lat. Trux, immanis;' but it seems to imply somewhat more, as in Allan Ramsay's Glossaries." P.

Elke, each.
Elles, ii. 20, else.
Ellumynynge, i. 123, embellishing.
Elyconys, i. 119, Helicon's.
Elvish, peevish, fantastical.
Eme, i. 44, ii. 9, uncle, kinsman.
Endyed, i. 123, dyed.
Ene, eyn, eyes.
Ene, even.
Enharpid, i. 123, hooked or edged.
Enkankered, cankered.
Enouch, iii. [100], enough.
Enowe, i. 275, enough.
Ensue, ii. 43, follow.
Entendement, ii. 382, understanding.
Entent, ii. 49, intent.
Ententifly, ii, 382, to the intent, purposely.
Envie;
envye, i. 42, malice, ill-will, injury.
Er, ii. 20, 26, are.
Ere, ii. 36, 42, ear.
Erlys, ii. 47;
erlés, iii. [94], earls.
Erst, i. 83, heretofore.
Etermynable, i. 126, interminable, unlimited.
Ettled, ii. 116, aimed.
Evanished, iii. [133], vanished.
Everych, ii. 27, every;
everychone, i. 156;
iii. [108], every one.
Ew-bughts, iii. [74], pens for milch-ewes.
Eyen, i. 72;
eyn, ii. 15;
eyne, i. 132, eyes.
Ezar, iii. [97], maple.
Fa', i. 84, 146, fall;
fa's, iii. [123], falls.
Fach, i. 33, feche, fetch.
Fader, iii. [365];
fadir, i. 83;
fatheris, father, father's.
Fadge, iii. [236], a bundle of sticks, a thick loaf of bread, coarse heap of stuff.
Fadom, i. 102, fathom.
Fae, ii. 109, foe.
Fain, ii. 69;
faine, i. 164, 287;
fayne, i. 157, glad, fond, well pleased;
faine of fighte, i. 92, fond of fighting.
Fair of feir, of a fair and healthful look;
perhaps, far off (free from) fear. P.
Falds, iii. [123], thou foldest.
Fallan, iii. [133], falling.
Fals, ii. 212, false.
Falser, iii. [161], a deceiver, hypocrite.
Falsing, ii. 61, dealing in falsehood.
Fand, iii. [324], found.
Fang, ii. 26, make off.
Fann'd, ii. 246, found.
Fannes, instruments for winnowing corn.
Fantacy, ii. 136;
fantasye, ii. 160, fancy.
Farden, i. 72, flashed.
Fare, i. 84, ii. 21, go forth, pass, travel.
Fare, the price of a passage, shot, reckoning.
Farley, i. 107, strange.
Fauht, i. 122, fought.
Fauld, ii. 85, field.
Fauyt, ii. 30, fought.
Fawkon, i. 42, falcon.
Fawn, iii. [122], fallen.
Fawte, i. 122, fought.
Fay, i. 178;
faye, i. 106, faith.
Fayrere, ii. 45, fairer.
Faytors, i. 215, deceivers, dissemblers, cheats.
Fe, i. 178, fee, reward, also bribe.
Applied to lands and tenements which are held by perpetual right, and by acknowledgment of superiority to a higher lord.
Feare. In feare, ii. 149, company.
Feat, i. 300, nice, neat.
Featously, i. 306, neatly, dexterously.
Fedyrs, ii. 22, feathers.
Fee, ii. 140, property.
Feere, i. 63, 76, mate, companion.
Feill, ii. 86, fail(?).
Feil, fele, many.
Feirs, ii. 114, companions.
Feir, i. 101, ii. 82;
feire, ii. 212, fear.
Feit, i. 84, 102, feet.
Felawe, ii. 44, fellow.
Feld, ii. 25, field.
Fell, i. 65, 78;
ii. 19, furious, fierce, keen, i. 306.
Fell, ii. 25, hide.
Feloy, ii. 25, fellow.
Fend, ii. 21;
fende, ii. 59, defend.
Fendys pray, i. 125, the prey of the fiends.
Fere, ii. 36, fear.
Fere, i. 64, 68, 73, 156, ii. 20, mate, play-feres, i. 59, play-fellows.
Ferly, ii. 19, wonder;
also wonderfully, ii, 25.
Ferlyng, ii. 8, furlong.
Ferr, i. 62, far.
Fersly, i. 160, fiercely.
Fesaunt, i. 42, pheasant.
Fest, ii. 27, feast.
Fet, ii. 128, iii. [193];
fett, i. 286;
fette, i. 50, 68, fetched;
deepe-fette, i. 76, deep-drawn.
Fethe, i. 29, faith.
Fettle, i. 116;
fetteled, i. 108;
fettled, i. 113, 116, prepared, addressed, made ready.
Fey, ii. 118, predestinated to some misfortune.
Feyytyng, ii. 19, fighting.
Fie, ii. 82, sheep or cattle.
Fier, i. 149, fire.
Filde, field.
Filinge, iii. [63], defiling.
Fillan, iii. [134], filling.
Finaunce, i. 125, fine, forfeiture.
Find frost, find mischance or disaster.
Firth, ii. 85, copse, wood.
Fit, i. 27;
fitt, ii. 177;
fytte, i. 44, part or division of a song.
Fitts, i.e. divisions or parts in music, are alluded to in "Troilus and Cressida," act. iii. sc. 1.
(See Steevens's note.) P.
Fit, foot, feet;
a fit, ii. 70, on foot.
Flatred, ii. 25, slit.
Flayne, iii. [25], flayed.
Flearing, i. 215, sneering.
Flee, iii. [97], fly.
Fles, ii. 24, fleece.
Fleyke, ii. 134, a large kind of hurdle;
cows are frequently milked in hovels made of fleyks.
Flindars, iii. [97], pieces, splinters.
Flix, iii. flux.
Flote, i. 201.
To flote is to flete or fleet, to flit, to change position easily, to move away quickly; as fleeting moments, flitting birds
Flote and flete are two forms of the same word; and flutter bears the same relation to flote that flitter does to flete.
In the Roxburghe copy of the ballad of Willow, Willow this word is printed as "fleet." (Roxb. Ballads, ed. Chappell, part i. p. 172.)
Flout, ii. 179;
floute, i. 197, to sneer;
fflouting, i. 289.
Flowan, ii. 364, flowing.
Flude, ii. 364, flood.
Flyte, i. 196, 281, 288, to contend with words, scold.
Fole, iii. [108], foal.
Fonde, ii. 12, contrive, endeavour, try.
Foo, i. 50, foe.
Fooder, ii. 66, wine tun;
Germ. fuder.
For, on account of.
For but, ii. 146, unless.
Forbode, commandment.
Force, no force, no matter.
Forced, ii. 76, regarded, heeded.
Forefend, i. 268;
forfend, ii. 97, prevent, defend, avert, hinder.
Forewearied, over-wearied.
Forfeebled, ii. 107, enfeebled.
For-fought, ii. 25, over-fought.
Fors, ii. 21, strength.
Fors. I do no fors, ii. 16, I don't care.
Forsede, i. 122, heeded, regarded.
Forst, ii. 76, regarded.
Forthynketh, i. 174, repenteth, vexeth, troubleth.
Forthy, therefore.
Forwarde, i. 44, van.
Forewatcht, ii. 77, over-wakeful, kept awake.
Fosters of the fe, i. 175, foresters of the king's demesnes.
Fot pot, ii. 9, with his foot push on.
Fote, i. 49, foot.
Fou, i. 147, iii. [75];
fow, iii. [99], full, also fuddled.
Fowkin, ii. 22, crepitus ventris.
Fox't, drunk.
Frae, i. 144, from.
Fraemang, ii. 107, from among.
Fraid i. 323, afraid.
Freake, i. 31, man, person, human creature.
Freake, a whim or maggot.
Freckys, i. 29, men.
Freers, ii. 128;
fryars, friars.
Freits, i. 146, ill omens, ill-luck.
Freke, i. 49, ii. 25, man;
frekys, ii. 25, men.
Freyke, ii. 135, humour, freak.
Freyke, i. 29, strong man.
Freyned, ii. 134, asked;
freyned that freake, ii. 134, asked that man.
Frie, ii. 82;
free.
Fro, i. 159;
froe, i. 106, 139, from.
Fruward, forward.
Furth, ii. 21, forth.
Fuyson, i. 123;
foyson, plenty, also substance.
Fyer, ii. 55, 105, fire;
fyerye, iii. [118], fiery.
Fyers, fierce.
Fyhte, ii. 12, fight.
Fykkill, i. 123, fickle.
Fyl'd, iii. [147], defiled.
Fyll, i. 121, fell.
Ga, ii. 24;
go;
gais, ii. 83, goes.
Ga, ii. 113, gave.
Gaberlunyie, ii. 71, a wallet;
gaberlunyie man, ii. 67, a tinker, beggar, one who carried a wallet.
Gade, iii. [122], went.
Gadelyngys, ii. 20, gadders, idle fellows.
Gaderyd, ii. 27, gathered.
Gadryng, ii. 22, gathering.
Gae, ii. 70, gave.
Gae, i. 143;
gaes, ii. 69, go, goes.
Gaed, ii. 69, went.
Gair, ii. 86, strip of land.
Gair, i. 59, geer, dress.
Gait, iii. [95], gate.
Galliard, ii. 162, a sprightly kind of dance.
Gamon, i. 67, to make game, to sport.
A.-S. gamenian jocari.
Gan, i. 63, 129, 309, ii. 68, began.
Gan, i. 30;
gane, i. 30, ii. 69, gone.
Gang, i. 83, ii. 69, go.
Ganyde, i. 28, gained.
Gar, ii. 70;
iii. [94], gare, garre, i. 44, make, cause, force, &c.;
gars, i. 321, makes.
Gard, iii. [97];
garde, i. 28;
garred,
garr'd, ii. 117;
gart, iii. [97], made.
Gargeyld, i. 128, from gargouille, the spout of a gutter.
The tower was adorned with spouts cut in the figures of greyhounds, lions, &c.
Garland, i. 111, the ring within which the prick or mark was set to be shot at.
Garth, ii. 391 garden, yard.
Gat, i. 146, got.
Gate, i. 108, way.
Gaup, ii. 139, gapes, waits.
Gear, i. 322, iii. [122], goods, effects, stuff.
Gederede ys host, ii. 8, gathered his host.
Geere, i. 274, 288, property.
Gef, ii. 31, give.
Geid, gave.
Geir, ii. 69, gear, property.
Gerte, iii. [357], pierced.
Gesse, ii. 49, guess.
Gest, ii. 85, act, feat, story, history.
Gettyng, i. 43, booty.
Geud, i. 103, good.
Geve, ii. 53, give.
Gibed, jeered.
Gi', i. 145;
gie, i. 145, give;
gied, i. 321, gave.
Giff, i. 322;
giffe, ii. 57, if.
Gilderoy, i. 320, red boy (or gillie);
Gaelic, Gille ruadh (pronounced roy).
Gillore, ii. 361, plenty.
Gimp, ii. 110, neat, slender.
Gin, i. 60, iii. [74], if.
Gin, iii. [203];
Ginn, iii. [53];
engine, contrivance.
Gins, ii. 53, begins.
Give, ii. 237;
if.
Glave, ii. 115, sword.
Glede, i. 26, a red-hot coal.
Glent, i. 24, glanced.
Glente, iii. [356], slipped aside.
Gleyinge, i. 408, minstrelsy.
Glist, ii. 110, glistered.
Glose, i. 120, gloss over.
Glowr, iii. [75], stare or frown.
Gloze, iii. [203], canting, dissimulation, fair outside.
God before, God be thy guide, a form of blessing.
So in Shakespeare's "King Hen. V." (A. iii. sc. 8) the King says:—
"My army's but a weak and sickly guard;
Yet, God before, tell him we will come on." P.
Gode, ii. 21, good.
Gods-pennie, ii. 140, earnest money.
Gon, ii. 21, began.
Gone, go.
Good, a good deal.
Good-e'ens, ii. 68, good evenings.
Good-se peny, ii. 147, earnest money.
Gorget, ii. 57, the dress of the neck.
Gorrel-bellyed, ii. 346, pot-bellied.
Gowan, ii. 364, the common yellow crowfoot or gold cup, daisy.
Gowd, i. 145, iii. [75], gold;
gowden glist, ii. 110, shone like gold;
gowden graith'd, ii. 230, caparisoned with golden accoutrements.
Graine, i. 158, i. 197, scarlet.
Graith'd, ii. 230, caparisoned.
Gramarye, i. 91;
grammarye, i. 92, grammar, abstruse learning.
Gramercy, i. 173;
gramercye, ii. 95, I thank you.
Fr. grand-mercie.
Graunge;
peakish graunge, i. 299, a lone country house.
Graythed, ii. 21, made ready.
Gre, ii. 21, prize.
Grea-hondes, i. 24, grey-hounds.
Grece, i. 129, step, flight of steps.
Greece, fat;
hart of greece, i. 170, a fat hart. Fr. graisse.
Greet, iii. [100], weep.
Grein, iii. [75], green.
Gresse, i. 43, iii. [62], grass.
Gret, ii. 12, grieved.
Greves, i. 24, groves, bushes.
Grippel, ii. 254, griping, tenacious, miserly.
Grone, iii. groan.
Ground-wa', i. 145, groundwall.
Growynde, i. 48, 49, ground.
Grownes, ii. 256, grounds.
Growte, ii. 256.
In Northamptonshire is a kind of small beer extracted from the malt after the strength has been drawn off. In Devon it is a kind of sweet ale medicated with eggs, said to be a Danish liquor. (Growte is a kind of fare much used by Danish sailors, being boiled groats, i.e. hulled oats, or else shelled barley, served up very thick, and butter added to it.—Mr. Lambe.) P.
Grype, ii. 57, a griffin.
Grysely groned, i. 49, dreadfully groaned.
Gude, ii. 70, 82, good.
Guerdon, iii. [18], reward.
Guid, i. 83, good.
Gule, iii. [7], red.
Gyb, ii. 22, nickname of Gilbert.
Gybe, ii. 257, jibe, jest, joke;
gybing, ii. 260.
Gyle, gyles, guile, guiles.
Gyn, ii. 9, engine, contrivance.
Gyrd, ii. 22, girded, lashed.
Gyrdyl, ii. 22, girdle.
Gyse, guise, form, fashion.
Ha, i. 196, has;
hae, ii. 71, have;
haes, iii. [235], has.
Ha', i. 84, iii. [94], hall;
ha's, ii. 109, halls.
Habbe ase he brew, ii. 8, have as he brews.
Habergeon, a lesser coat of mail.
Hable, i. 121, able.
Hach-borde, ii. 193, probably that part of the bulwark of the ship which is removed to form the gangway or entrance on board,—in fact, the "hatch"—(or half-door) "board."
Haif, ii. 82, have.
Haggis, ii. 132, a sheep's stomach stuffed with a pudding made of mince-meat, &c.
Hail, ii. 83, healthful.
Hair, ii. 81, 86, hoar or grey.
Halch, iii. [325], salute.
Halched, i. 280, saluted, embraced, fell on his neck.
Halesome, ii. 142, wholesome healthy.
Halse, iii. [75], the neck, throat.
Halt, ii. 16, holdeth.
Ham, ii. 21, them.
Hame, i. 143, home;
hameward, ii. 84, homeward.
Han, ii. 13, have.
Handbow, the long-bow or common bow, as distinguished from the cross-bow.
Hap, i. 255;
happ, iii. [138];
happe, i. 283, fortune;
hap, i. 287, chance, happen, i. 303.
Hard, ii. 312, heard.
Hare ... swerdes, ii. 8, their ... swords.
Harflue, ii. 30, Harfleur.
Harlocke, i. 307, perhaps charlock, or wild rape, which bears a yellow flower, and grows among corn, &c.
Harneis, i. 273, armour.
Harnisine, ii. 112, harness, armour.
Harrowe, i. 280, harass.
Harowed, i. 164, harassed, disturbed.
Hart, iii. [128], heart;
hartes, i. 50;
harts, i. 138;
hartis, i. 147.
Hartely, ii. 38, earnestly.
Hartly lust, i. 124, hearty desire.
Harwos, ii. 27, harrows.
Haryed, i. 41, 22, pillaged.
Hastarddis, i. 120, perhaps hasty, rash fellows, or upstarts.
Hatcht, ii. 77, seized.
Hauld, i. 143, hold.
Hauss bone, iii. [75], the neck bone (halse bone), a phrase for the neck.
Have owre, i. 102, half over.
Haves, ii. 20, effects, substance, riches.
Haveth, ii. 8, has.
Haviour, i. 304, behaviour.
Hawberke, i. 66, a coat of mail, consisting of iron rings, &c.
Hawkin, ii. 19, diminutive of Harry, from Halkin.
Haylle, i. 43, hale, strong.
He, i. 171, hie, hasten.
He, i. 24, high.
Heal, i. 29, hail.
Hear, i. 103, here.
Heare, ii. 77;
heares, hair, hairs.
Heathynesse, iii. [40], heathendom.
Heawying, i. 31, hewing, hacking.
Hech, ii. 27, hatch, half door of a cottage (sometimes spelt heck).
"Dogs leap the hatch," King Lear, act. iii. sc. 6.
"'He'll have to ride the hatch' is a familiar phrase about Looe, and signifies 'He'll be brought to trial.' It is generally used jocosely in the case of any loud professor of religion who has been 'overtaken in a fault;' and the idea is that his trial will be the ordeal of attempting to ride or sit on the top or narrow edge of a hatch or half-door, when if he maintain his seat he will be pronounced innocent, if he fall he is guilty. If he fall inwards (i.e. within the room or building), he will be pardoned, but if he fall outwards, he will be excommunicated." W. Pengelly (Devonshire Association Report, vol. vii. p. 488).
Hecht to lay thee law, promised (engaged) to lay the law.
Hed, hede, head;
hedys, ii. 25, heads.
Hede, ii. 12, had.
Hede, hied.
Hee, i. 42, high.
Heele, i. 291, he will.
Hees, ii. 70, he is.
Heght, ii. 117, promised.
Heiding hill, ii. 231, the heading (or beheading) hill. The place of execution was anciently an artificial hillock.
Heigh, iii. [94], high.
Heil, ii. 81, health.
Heir, ii. 83, here;
also hear;
herid, iii. [96], heard.
Hele, ii. 42, health.
Helen, ii. 15, heal.
Helpeth, ii. 12, help ye.
Hem, ii. 13, them.
Hend, i. 72, i. 74, 80, kind, gentle, courteous.
Henne, ii. 8, hence.
Hent, ii. 26, laid hold of.
Hepps and hawes, ii. 284, hips and haws.
Herault, ii. 59, herald.
Her, ii. 393, hear.
Her, ii. 35, their.
Here, ii. 42, hair.
Herkneth, ii. 7, hearken ye.
Herry, ii. 19, Harry.
Hert, i. 59, heart.
Hes, ii. 80, has.
Hest, hast.
Hest, i. 67, command, injunction.
Het, ii. 346, heated.
Hete, ii. 41, heat.
Hether, hither.
Hether, heather, heath.
Hett, iii. [6], bid, call, command.
Heuch, ii. 86, rock or steep hill.
Hevede, ii. 9, had, hadst;
hevedest, ii. 12.
Hevenriche, ii. 12, heavenly.
Hewberke, i. 72, coat of mail.
Hewkes, iii. [26], party-coloured coats of the heralds.
Hewyns in to, hewn in two.
Hey-day guise, iii. [204], rustic dances, a corruption of "heydegies."
Heynd, ii. 82, gentle, obliging.
Heyye, ii. 13, high.
Hi, hie, he.
Hicht, a-hicht, on height.
Hie, i. 32, high;
hier, ii. 169, higher;
hire, iii. [324].
Hight, i. 29, 270, 286, promise, promised, engaged, also named, called.
Hilt, ii. 98, taken off, flayed.
Hinch boys, pages of honour.
Hind, ii. 70, behind.
Hinde, i. 32, gentle.
Hings, iii. [97], hangs.
Hinnible, iii. [304], horse, or pony.
Hinny, ii. 84, honey.
Hip, iii. [99], the berry which contains the stones or seeds of the dog-rose.
Hir, i. 143;
hire, iii. [207], her;
hir lain, iii. [95], herself alone.
Hird, ii. 81, herd.
Hirsel, i. 143, herself.
Hit, ii. 13, it;
hit be write, ii. 12, it be written.
Hode, i. 164, hood, cap.
Holden, ii. 14, hold.
Hole, i. 124, 126, iii. [280], whole.
Hollen, iii. [325], holly.
Holp, i. 120, help;
holpe, iii. [32], helped.
Holt, ii. 140, wood.
Holtes, i. 42, woods, groves.
In Norfolk a plantation of cherry-trees is called a "cherry holt." P.
Holtis hair, ii. 81, 86, hoary or grey woods or heaths.
"Holtes seems evidently to signify hills in the following passage from Turberville's "Songs and Sonnets," 12mo. 1567, fol. 56:—
"Yee that frequent the hilles,
And highest Holtes of all;
Assist me with your skilfull quilles,
And listen when I call."
"As also in this other verse of an ancient poet:—
"Underneath the Holtes so hoar." P.
Holy, wholly.
Holy-rode, ii. 22, holy cross;
holye rood, ii. 56.
Honde, hand;
honden wrynge, ii. 11, hands wring.
Hondert, i. 50, hundred.
Hondrith, i. 24, 25, 30, 32, 34, hundred.
Hong, ii. 77;
honge, i. 161, hang; hung, i. 308.
Hooly, iii. [134], slowly, gently.
Hophalt, limping, hopping, and halting.
Hore, iii. [327], whore.
Hount, i. 26, hunt.
Houzle, ii. 60, give the sacrament.
Hoved, i. 129, heaved;
hovered, i. 43.
Howers, ii. 234, hours.
Huche, ii. 81, wood, or a shed.
Hud, ii. 23, proper name.
Hue, ii. 12, she.
A.-S. heo; refers to huerte, which is feminine. It is an interesting example of the continuance of a grammatical gender in English.
Huerte trewe, ii. 11, true heart.
Huggle, iii. [72], hug, clasp.
Hull, i. 307, hill.
Hur, ii. 20;
hurr, ii. 24, her.
Hye, i. 136, high, highest;
hyest, ii. 59;
hyer, iii. [63], hire.
Hyght, i. 44, promised or engaged.
Hyght, high;
on hyght, i. 41, 47, aloud.
Hyllys, i. 32, hills.
Hynd out o'er, ii. 115, over the country.
Hyp-halte, ii. 27, lame in the hip.
Hyrdyllys, ii. 27, hurdles.
Hys, ii. 20, his.
Hyssylton, ii. 19, Islington.
Hyt, hytt, ii. 49, it.
Hyyt, ii. 20, promised.
I-clipped, i. 129, called.
I-feth, i. 29, in faith.
I-lore, ii. 13, lost.
I-strike, ii. 16, stricken, struck.
I-trowe, verily.
I-tuned, tuned.
I-ween, verily.
I-wis, i. 276, verily;
I-wys, i. 68, 70.
I-wot, verily.
Ich, ii. 286, I;
ich biqueth, ii. 12, I bequeath.
Ich, ii. 22;
icha, ii. 25, each.
Ide, iii. [72], I would.
Ild, ii. 69, I'd, I would.
Ile, i. 196, I'll, I will.
Illfardly, ii. 70, ill-favouredly, uglily.
Ilk, same;
this ilk, this same.
Ilk on, ii. 21, each one;
ilka, ilke, every;
ilka ane, iii. [122], every one.
Im, i. 103, him.
Ime, i. 198, ii. 57, I am.
Incontinent, iii. [187], forthwith.
In fere, ii. 36, together, in company.
Ingle, ii. 68, fire.
Inogh, ii. 26, enough;
inoughe, ii. 147, enough.
Into, iii. [238], in.
Intres, i. 129, entrance, admittance.
Irke, ii. 148, angry.
Is, i. 149, ii. 8, his.
Ise, ii. 211, iii. [236], I shall.
I'st, i. 289, 292, I'll.
It's neir, it shall never.
Iye, i. 432, eye.
Janglers, ii. 85, talkative persons, wranglers, tell-tales.
Jear, ii. 118, derision.
Jetted, iii. [186], strutted, or went proudly.
Jille, iii. [77], used here as a man's name.
Jimp, i. 145, slender.
Jo, i. 320, ii. 132, sweetheart, friend, contraction of joy.
Jogelers, i. 441, jugglers.
Jow, iii. [134], single stroke in tolling.
Juncates, iii. [202], junket, curds and clouted cream.
Jupe, ii. 116, an upper garment.
Kall, i. 125, call.
Kame, iii. [147], comb;
kameing, iii. [97], combing.
Kan, i. 123, 430, can.
Kantle, iii. [26], piece, corner.
Karlis of kynde, i. 120, churls by nature.
Kauk, ii. 71, chalk.
Kauld, i. 103, called.
Keel, ii. 71, ruddle.
Keepe, i. 309, ii. 256, care, heed.
So in the old play of "Hick Scorner," "I keepe not to clymbe so hye;" i.e. I study not, care not, &c.
Keip, ii. 82, keep;
ii. 84, watch.
Keipand, ii. 82, keeping.
Kell, iii. [101], net for a woman's hair.
Kembe, iii. [100], [186], to comb;
kembing, iii. [102], combing;
kemb'd, iii. [302], combed.
Kempe, i. 90, 94, ii. 183, soldier, warrior.
Kemperye man, i. 94, soldier, fighting man.

"Germanis Camp, Exercitum, aut Locum ubi Exercitus castrametatur, significat: inde ipsis Vir Castrensis et Militaris kemffer, et kempher, et kemper, et kimber, et kamper, pro varietate dialectorum, vocatur: Vocabulum hoc nostro sermone nondum penitus exolevit; Nor folcienses enim plebeio et proletario sermone dicunt. 'He is a kemper old man, i.e. Senex Vegetus est:' Hinc Cimbris suum nomen: 'kimber enim Homo bellicosus, pugil, robustus miles, &c. significat.' Sheringham de Anglor. gentis. orig. pag. 57. Rectius autem Lazius [apud eundem, p. [49]]. 'Cimbros a bello quod kamff, et Saxonice kamp nuncupatos crediderim: unde bellatores viri Die Kempffer, Die Kemper.'" P.

Kems, i. 102, combs.
Ken, ii. 69, know;
kens, iii. [122], knows;
kenst, i. 196, knowest.
Kend, ii. 70, knew;
known, iii. [99];
kenn'd, ii. 365.
Kene, ii. 15, keen.
Kepand, ii. 81, keeping.
Kepers, i. 181. "Those that watch by the corpse shall tye up my winding-sheet." P.
Kester, i. 276, nickname for Christopher.
Kever chefes, kerchiefs or head covers.
(See vol. 3, p. [356].)
Kexis, ii. 27, elder sticks used for candles.
Kilted, iii. [132], tucked up.
Kind, nature. To carp is our kind, it is natural for us to talk of;
of hir kind, ii. 154, of her family.
Kirk, iii. [75];
kirke, i. 137, church;
kirk wa', iii. [238], church wall, or churchyard wall;
kirkyard, i. 243, iii. [132], churchyard.
Kirns to kirn, ii. 70, churns to churn.
Kirtle, i. 222, a petticoat, a woman's gown.
Kist, ii. 69, chest.
Kit, i. 123, cut.
Knave, servant.
Knaw, ii. 82, know.
Knellan, iii. [134], knelling, ringing the knell.
Knicht, iii. [237], knight.
Knight's fe, such a portion of land as required the possessor to serve with man and horse.
Knowles, knolls, little hills.
Knyled, i. 32, knelt.
Kowarde, i. 46, coward.
Kowe, ii. 21, cow.
Kuntrey, i. 124, country.
Kurteis, i. 125, courteous.
Kyd, ii. 21, shown.
Kye, ii. 134, kine, cows.
Kyrtel, ii. 42;
kyrtell, i. 65, petticoat, gown, a man's under garment.

"Bale, in his 'Actes of Eng. Votaries' (part ii. fol. 53), uses the word Kyrtle to signify a monk's frock. He says, Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury, when he was dying, sent 'to Clunyake, in France, for the kyrtle of holy Hugh the abbot there,' &c." P.

Kythe, i. 427, make appear, show, declare.
Kythed, appeared.
Laigh, ii. 117, low.
Laith, i. 101, ii. 70, loth.
Laithly, loathsome, hideous.
Laitl, i. 103, little.
Lamb's wool, iii. [183], a liquor composed of ale and roasted apples.
Lane, lain, lone;
her lane, ii. 69;
hir lain, iii. [95], alone by herself.
Lang, i. 101, ii. 20, long.
Lang'd, ii. 107, longed.
Langsome, i. 321, long, tedious.
Lap, iii. [93], [95], leaped.
Largesse, iii. [26], gift, liberality.
Lasse, ii. 13, less.
Late, ii. 47, let.
Latte, ii. 12, hinder.
Lauch, i. 101, laugh;
lauched, i. 101, laughed.
Launde, i. 170, clear space in a forest.
Lawlands, ii. 227, lowlands.
Lay, i. 79, law.
Layde, i. 291, lady.
Layden, i. 66, laid.
Layland, i. 66, 67, 79, green sward.
Laylands, i. 73, lands in general.
Layne, lain, laid.
Layne, i. 45, 46, deceive, break one's word.
Lazar, ii. 55, leper.
Leal, ii. 69, loyal, honest, true.
Leane, conceal, hide.
Lear'd, i. 307, pastured.
Lease, lying, falsehood;
withouten lease, i. 170, verily, without lying.
Lease, iii. [102], leash, thong, cord.
Leasynge, lying, falsehood.
Leaute, ii. 7, loyalty.
Lee, ii. 68, lea, field, pasture.
Lee, iii. [96], lie.
Leeche, i. 63, 75, 77, physician.
Leechinge, i. 63;
leedginge, i. 77, doctoring, medicinal care.
Leek, phrase of contempt.
Leel, ii. 112, true.
Leer, look.
Leeve London, i. 273, iii. [101], dear London.
Leever, i. 160, sooner.
Leeveth, i. 88, believeth.
Lefe, i. 173, dear.
Lefe, leave;
leves, leaves.
Leffe, leefe, dear.
Leid, iii. [96], lyed.
Leil, ii. 85, loyal, true.
Leir, ii. 82, learn;
lere, i. 306, learning.
Leive, i. 84, iii. [236], leave.
Leman, i. 186, 327;
leiman, i. 301;
lemman, iii. [97], lover, mistress.
Lemster wooll, i. 307, Leominster wool.
Lene, ii. 13, give.
Lenger, i. 64, ii. 20, longer.
Lengeth in, resideth in.
Lere, i. 72, face, countenance, complexion.
Lese, ii. 26, lose.
Lesynge, i. 174;
leasing, lying, falsehood.
Let, i. 24, hinder;
lett, ii. 85, hindrance.
Lett, i. 93, left or let be opened.
Lettest, i. 74, hinderest, detainest.
Letteth, i. 168, hindereth.
Lettyng, i. 172, hindrance, without delay.
Leugh, ii. 118;
leuche, ii. 81, laughed.
Leve, ii. 38, remain.
Lever, i. 46, 71, 75, 173, rather;
lever than, ii. 39, rather then.
Leves and bowes, ii. 42, leaves and boughs.
Lewd, i. 308;
leud, ii. 134, ignorant, scandalous.
Ley, iii. [123], lay.
Leyke, ii. 135, play.
Leyre, lere, learning, lore.
Libbard, leopard;
libbard's bane, iii. [198], the herb wolfbane.
Lichtly, iii. [147], lightly, easily.
Lig, i. 144, iii. [70], lie;
ligge, ii. 11;
liggd, ii. 83, lay.
Lightfoote, iii. [182], venison.
Lightile, i. 161, quickly.
Lightsome, i. 65, cheerful, sprightly.
Limber, ii. 260, supple, flexible.
Limitoures, iii. [208], friars licensed to beg within certain limits.
Limitatioun, iii. [208], a certain precinct allowed to a limitour.
Lingell, i. 308, a thread of hemp rubbed with resin, &c., used by rustics for mending their shoes.
Lire, flesh, complexion.
List, i. 256;
lith, ii. 11, lieth.
Lith, i. 156;
lithe, i. 268;
lythe, attend, hearken, listen.
Lither, i. 94, iii. [47], idle, lazy, naughty, worthless, wicked.
Live-lang, iii. [132], live-long.
Liver, i. 282, deliver.
Liverance, i. 282, 289, deliverance (money or a pledge for delivering you up).
Livor, i. 289, deliver.
Load;
lay on load, i. 74, give blows.
Lodly, ii. 63;
lodlye, ii. 56, loathsome.
Loe, ii. 70, iii. [99], love;
lo'ed, iii. [98], loved.
Logeyng, i. 43, lodging.
Loht, ii. 9;
be the luef, be the loht, whether you like it or loathe it.
Loke, i. 308, lock of wool.
Lokyd, ii. 73;
lokyde, i. 25, looked.
Lome, ii. 63, man, object.
Lond, iii. [207], land.
Longes, i. 218, belongs;
longeth, ii. 43, belongeth.
Longs, i. 30, lungs.
Looket, i. 149, looked.
Loone, ii. 145, idle fellow.
Looset, i. 115, loosed.
Lope, i. 65, 80, ii. 217, leapt.
Lore, ii. 9, 13, teaching, lesson, doctrine, learning.
Lore, lost.
Lorrel, i. 441, a sorry, worthless person.
Losel, ii. 134, 145, the same as Lorrel.
Lothly, ii. 142, loathsome.

"The adverbial terminations -some and -ly were applied indifferently by our old writers: thus, as we have lothly for loathsome above, so we have ugsome in a sense not very remote from ugly in Lord Surrey's version of Æn. 2nd, viz.—

"'In every place the ugsome sightes I saw' (p. [29])." P.

Loud and still, ii. 82, openly and secretly.
Lough, i. 95, laugh;
lought, ii. 282, laughed.
Loun, i. 322, loon, rascal.
Lounge, iii. [357], lung.
Lourd, iii. [100], rather (?)
Lout, ii. 117;
loute, ii. 26, stoop.
Louted, i. 72;
lowtede, bowed, did obeisance.
Lowe, i. 114, a little hill.
Lowne, i. 198, rascal.
Lowns, ii. 113, blazes.
Lowttede, i. 120, crouched.
Lude, ii. 82, loved.
Lued, i. 323, loved.
Luef, ii. 9, love.
Lues, iii. [75], loves, love.
Lugh, ii. 26, laughed.
Luik, i. 146, look;
luiks, i. 146, looks;
luikt, ii. 229, looked.
Luivt, ii. 82, loved.
Lung, ii. 28, long.
Lurden, i. 163;
lurdeyne, sluggard, drone.
Lust, ii. 42, desire.
Luve, i. 320, love;
luver, ii. 212, lover.
Luvely, i. 143, lovely.
Lyan, iii. [134], lying.
Lyard, ii. 9, grey; a name given to a horse from its grey colour, as Bayard from bay.
Lyff, ii. 49, life.
Lyk, i. 28;
lyke, ii. 38, like.
Lynde, i. 168;
lyne, i. 112, the lime-tree.
Lys, ii. 12, lies.
Lystenyth, iii. [371], listen.
Lyth, i. 306, easy, gentle, pliant, flexible, lithesome.
Lyvar, i. 30, liver
Lyven na more, live no more, no longer.
Lyyt, ii. 27, light;
lyytly, ii. 26, lightly.
Mad, ii. 24, made.
Mahound, i. 88, Mahomet.
Maining, ii. 211, moaning.
Mair, ii. 84, more, most.
Maist, i. 42, mayest.
Mait, iii. [99], might, may.
Majeste, maist, mayeste, may'st.
Makes, i. 50, ii. 78, mates.
Making, versifying.
Makys, i. 33, mates.

"As the words make and mate were, in some cases, used promiscuously by ancient writers, so the words cake and cate seem to have been applied with the same indifferency; this will illustrate that common English proverb, 'to turn cat (i.e. cate) in pan.' A pancake is in Northamptonshire still called a pancate." P.

Male, i. 28, coat of mail;
shirt of male, ii. 233.
Manchet, iii. [206], best kind of white bread.
Mane, i. 26, man.
Mangonel, ii. 8, a military engine used for discharging great stones, arrows, &c., before the invention of gunpowder.
March perti, i. 33;
march partes, i. 34, in the parts lying upon the marches.
March-pine, i. 306;
marchpane, a kind of biscuit.
Mare ii. 25, more.
Margarite, ii. 328, a pearl.
Mark, a coin, in value 13s. 4d.
Marke hym to the Trenité, commit himself to God.
Marrow, ii. 109, 363, match, or equal companion.
Mart, ii. 82, marred, hurt, damaged.
Marvelit, iii. [238], marvelled.
Mast, maste, may'st.
Masterye, i. 110;
maystery, i. 176, a trial of skill.
Maugre, ii. 8;
mauger, i. 23, in spite of.
Maugre, ii. 83, ill will.
Maun, i. 84, 143, 145, must.
Mavis, iii. [97], a thrush.
Mawt, iii. [123], malt.
May, i. 63, 113;
maye, i. 46, maid.
Mayne, i. 122, force, strength.
Mayne, a horse's mane.
Mayny, i. 120, a company.
Maze, a labyrinth, anything entangled or intricate.

"On the top of Catherine-hill, Winchester (the usual play-place of the school), was a very perplexed and winding path, running in a very small space over a great deal of ground, called a Miz-Maze. The senior boys obliged the juniors to tread it, to prevent the figure from being lost, as I am informed by an ingenious correspondent." P.

Mazer, in. 97, drinking cup of maple.
Me, men;
me con, ii. 13, men began.
Me-thuncketh, ii. 11, methinks.
Meane, ii. 259, moderate, middle-sized.
Meany, i. 24, 25, retinue, train, company.
Mease, ii. 119, soften, mollify.
Meed, meede, i. 74, iii. [22], reward.
Meet, in. 132, even.
Meid, mood.
Meikle, iii. [238], much.
Meit, iii. [95], meat.
Meit, ii. 83, 115, meet, fit, proper.
Mekyl, ii. 21, much.
Mell, ii. 260, honey.
Mell, meddle, mingle.
Meniveere, i. 308, a species of fur.
Mense the faught, ii. 116, to measure the battle.

"To give to the mense is to give above the measure. Twelve and one to the mense is common with children in their play." P.

Menzie, ii. 133, retinue, company.
Merch, ii. 115, march.
Merchis, i. 34, marches.
Merth, merthe, ii. 31, mirth.
Messager, ii. 12, messenger.
Mete, i. 180, meet, fit, proper.
Mewe, ii. 254, confinement.
Micht, ii. 230, might.
Mickle, i. 65, 66, 72, 76, 137, 306, much, great.
Midge, iii. [233], a small insect, a kind of gnat.
Mids, ii. 77, midst.
Minged, i. 66, 79, mentioned.
Minny, ii. 69, mother.
Mirk, ii. 120;
mirkie, iii. [154], dark, black.
Mirry, i. 101, 143, ii. 82, merry;
mirriest, ii. 391, merriest.
Mirry-land toune, i. 59.
Misconster, ii. 349, misconstrue.
Misdoubt, i. 302, suspect, doubt.
Miskaryed, miscarried.
Misken, i. 197, mistake.
Mister, to need.
Mith, iii. [45], might.
Mither, i. 60, 83, 145, mother.
Mo, i. 30, 161, ii. 16;
moe, ii. 289, more.
Moche, ii. 47, much.
Mode, mood.
Moder, i. 126, mother.
Moiening, ii. 382, by means of.
Mome, ii. 258, blockhead.
Mon, ii. 11, man.
Mone, ii. 37, moon.
Mone lyyt, ii. 25, moonlight.
Mone, ii. 35, iii. [127], moan.
Monand, iii. [64], moaning, bemoaning.
Monnynday, i. 24, 34, Monday.
Mony, ii. 8, 13, 68, many.
More, iii. [17],

"originally and properly signified a hill (from A.-S. mor, mons), but the hills of the north being generally full of bogs, a moor came to signify boggy, marshy, ground in general." P.

Mores and the fenne, ii. 8, hill and dale;
mores brodinge, i. 64, 78, wide moors.
Morne, i. 101;
to morn, ii. 20, 83, on the morrow, in the morning.
Mornyng, ii. 49, mourning.
Morwenynges, iii. [208], mornings.
Mort, i. 25, dead stag.
Most, must.
Mot, i. 121, 126, may.
Mote, i. 157, might;
mote I thee, ii. 97, may I thrive.
Mou, ii. 70, mouth.
Mought, i. 68, 169, 308, might, may it, ii. 302.
Mowe, ii. 13, 31, may.
Muchele bost, ii. 8, great boast.
Mude, ii. 82, mood.
Muid, i. 147, mood.
Mulne, ii. 8, mill.
Mun, i. 63, 66, must.
Mure, mures, wild downs, heaths, &c.
Murn, ii. 85;
murnd, ii. 86;
murnit, ii. 81;
murnt, ii. 84;
murning, ii. 83, mourn, mourned, mourning.
Muve, ii. 366, move;
muvit, ii. 39, moved.
Mykel, i. 46, great.
Myllan, i. 29, Milan steel.
Myn, ii. 12, my.
Myne-ye-ple, i. 28, probably a corruption of manople, a large gauntlet.
Myrry, merry.
Mysuryd, i. 123, misused, applied to a bad purpose.
Myyt, ii. 26, might;
myyty, mighty.
Na, ii. 12;
nae, no, not, none.
Naebody, ii. 139, nobody.
Naithing, ii. 70, nothing.
Nane, i. 320, ii. 70, iii. [75], none.
Nappy, iii. [182], strong, as ale.
Nar, i. 25, 27;
nare, i. 30, nor.
Nat, i. 143, ii. 35, not.
Natheless, ii. 264, nevertheless
N'availeth not, ii. 16, availeth not.
Ne, ii. 12, no, nor, not.
Near, ner, nere, ne'er, never.
Neat, oxen, cows, large cattle;
neates leather, ii. 100, cowhide.
Neatherd, a keeper of cattle.
Neatresse, ii. 259, female keeper of cattle.
Nee, i. 71, 178, nigh.
Neigh him neare, i. 94, approach him near.
Neir, i. 146, ne'er, never.
Neire, ii. 212;
nere, near.
Nemped, i. 409, named.
Nere, ii. 135;
ne were, were it not for.
Nest, ii. 12, next, nearest.
Nethar, neither.
Neven, i. 396, name.
New fangle, iii. [7], new-fangled, fond of novelty.
Nicht, ii. 85, night.
Nicked him of naye, i. 88, nicked him with a refusal.
Nipt, pinched.
No, not.
Noble, a gold coin in value twenty groats, or 6s. 8d.
Nobles, i. 120, nobleness.
Nocht, ii. 83, not.
Nock, iii. [295], the posteriors.
Nollys, ii. 21, noddles, heads.
Nom, ii. 12, took.
Nome, ii. 11, name.
Non, ii. 16, none.
None, i. 25, 31, ii. 37, noon.
Nones, ii. 27, nonce.
Nonys, ii. 22, nonce or occasion.
Norland, iii. [237], northern.
Norse, Norway.
Norss menzie, ii. 114, the Norse army.
North-gales, iii. [26], North Wales.
Nou, ii. 9, now.
Nourice, nurse.
Nout, ii. 8, nought, also not, ii. 14.
Nowght, nought.
Nowls, noddles, heads.
Noye, ii. 26, hurt.
Noyt, ii. 24, nought, not.
Ny, ii. 49;
nye, i. 136, nigh;
nyest, ii. 59, nighest.
Nyyt, ii. 27, night.
O, ii. 8, one;
O', iii. [99], of;
O, ii. 9, on.
O wow, ii. 68, an exclamation.
Obraid, iii. [99], upbraid.
Occupied, i. 121, used.
Ocht, ought.
Off, ii. 177, of.
Oloft, ii. 25, on horseback.
On, ii. 49, one, an.
On loft, ii. 22, aloft.
Onfowghten, unfoughten, unfought.
Ony, ii. 84, any.
Onys, ii, 23, once.
Opon, ii. 8, upon.
Or, ii. 42, before ever.
Ore, iii. [128], over.
Orisons, prayers.
Ost, i. 28, ii. 24, iii. [36];
oste, i. 42, 43, 44;
ooste, i. 272, host.
Osterne, i. 291, austere.
Oth, othe, iii. [49], oath.
Ou, ii. 12, you.
Ous, ii. 8, us.
Out-owr, i. 147, quite over, over.
Outbrayd, ii. 45, drew out, unsheathed.
Outhorne, i. 167, the summoning to arms by the sound of a horn.
Outrake, i. 285, 292, an out ride or expedition;
to raik is to go fast.

"Outrake is a common term among shepherds. When their sheep have a free passage from enclosed pastures into open and airy grounds they call it a good outrake." (Mr. Lambe.) P.

Owar, i. 31, hour.
Oware of none, i. 25, hour of noon.
Owches, iii. [316], bosses.
Owre, i. 144, ii. 70;
over, o'er; ere, i. 101.
Owreword, iii. [124], the last word, burden of a song.
Pa, i. 59.
Packing, i. 121, dealing.
Pall, i, 89;
palle, i. 71, a cloak or robe of state.
Palmer, iii. [113], a pilgrim who, having been in the Holy Land, carried a palm branch in his hand.
Paramour, i. 310, gallant, lover;
mistress, ii. 45.
Pardè, ii. 41;
perdie, verily (par Dieu).
Paregall, i. 124, equal.
Parle, iii. [36], speak or parley.
Parti, party;
a parti, i. 26, apart or aside.
Partynere, ii. 41, partner.
Pat, ii. 132, pot.
Pattering, iii. [9],

"murmuring, mumbling, from the manner in which the Paternoster was anciently hurried over in a low inarticulate voice." P.

Pauky, ii. 68, shrewd, cunning, sly.
Paves, i. 121, a pavice, a large shield that covered the whole body. Fr. pavois.
Pavilliane, pavilion, tent.
Pay, i. 173, liking, satisfaction.
Paynim, i. 65, 88, iii. [41], pagan.
Peakish, i. 299, rude, simple;
peakish hull, i. 307, perhaps the Derbyshire Peak.
Peare, i. 80, peer, equal.
Pearlins, iii. [75], coarse sort of bone-lace.
Pece, piece of cannon.
Pee, i. 148, piece.
Peere, i. 73, 77, equal.
Pees, ii. 7, peace.
Pele, ii. 24, a baker's long-handled shovel.
Penon, a banner or streamer borne at the top of a lance.
Pentarchye, ii. 345, five heads.
Perchmine, parchment.
Perde, i. 187, verily.
Perelous, parlous, perilous, dangerous.
Perfay, ii. 85, verily.
Perfight, i. 123, perfect;
perfightly, i. 124, perfectly.
Perfytte, i. 272, perfect.
Perkyn, ii. 20, diminutive of Peter.
Perlese, i. 125, peerless.
Perte, i. 50, part, side.
Pertyd, i. 28, parted, divided.
Pese, ii. 45, peace.
Petye, i. 50, ii. 73, pity.
Peyn, ii. 16, pain.
Peyses, i. 48, pieces.
Peysse, i. 44, peace.
Peyters, ii. 13, Peter's.
Philomele, iii. [81], the nightingale.
Piece, a little.
Pil'd, peeled, bald.
Pine, i. 196, famish, starve.
Pinner, ii. 337, pinder, or impounder of cattle.
Pious chanson, i. 183, a godly song or ballad.

"Mr. Rowe's Edition of Shakespeare has 'The first Row of the Rubrick;' which has been supposed by Dr. Warburton to refer to the red-lettered titles of old ballads. In the large collection made by Mr. Pepys, I do not remember to have seen one single ballad with its title printed in red letters." P.

Pipl, i. 103, people.
Playand, ii. 115, playing.
Play-feres, i. 59, play-fellows.
Playning, i. 243, complaining.
Plein, iii. [123], complain.
Pleis, ii. 82, please.
Plett, ii. 112, plaited.
Pley, i. 59, ii. 83, play.
Pleyn, ii. 16, complain.
Plyyt, ii. 27, plight.
Plowmell, ii. 25, a small wooden hammer occasionally fixed to the plough.
Poll-cat, cant word for a prostitute.
Pollys, ii. 21, polls, heads.
Pompal, i. 233, proud, pompous.
Popingay, i. 308, a parrot.
Porcupig, iii. [285], porcupine.
Portingale, iii. [50], Portugal.
Portingalls, ii. 198, Portuguese.
Portres, porteress.
Poterner, iii. [7], probably a pouch or bag.
Pottle, iii. [187], a measure of two quarts.
Poudered, ii. 23, a term in heraldry for sprinkled over.
Pow'd, i. 59, pulled.
Powlls, polls, heads.
Pownes, i. 300, pounds.
Praat, ii. 360, prate.
Pray, i. 125, prey.
Prayse-folk, ii. 27, singing men and women.
Preas, iii. [26], press.
Prece, i. 160, crowd, press;
preced, i. 167, 171, pressed.
Prest, i. 205, ii. 21, ready;
prestly, i. 171;
prestlye, i. 72, readily, quickly.
Prickes, i. 111, mark in the centre of the target.
Pricke-wande, pole set up for a mark.
Pricked, i. 68, spurred on, hasted.
Priefe, ii. 96, prove.
Priving, ii. 70, proving, testing.
Prove, ii. 46, proof.
Prude, ii. 8, pride.
Prycke, i. 175, the mark, commonly a hazel wand.
Prycked, i. 43, spurred.
Pryme, i. 156, daybreak, or six o'clock in the morning.
Prys, ii. 11, prize.
Pu, i. 145, pull.
Puing, ii. 363, pulling.
Puissant, iii. [110], strong, powerful.
Purfell, iii. [25], ornament, or border of embroidery.
Purfelled, iii. [25], embroidered.
Purvayed, ii. 45, provided.
Putry, iii. [6], whoredom.
Pyght, i. 43, pitched.
Quadrant, four-square.
Quaint, ii. 257, nice, fantastical.
Quarry, i. 255, the slaughtered game in hunting or hawking.
Quat, ii. 116, quitted.
Quay, iii. [75], a young heifer, called a whie in Yorkshire.
Quean, iii. [21], [203], [252], a sorry, base woman, a slut.
Quel, ii. 135, cruel, murderous.
Quelch, a blow or bang.
Quere, i. 124, quire, choir.
Quest, i. 165, inquest.
Quha, i. 101, who.
Quhair, ii. 82, where.
Quhair-eir, ii. 84, wherever.
Quhan, i. 144, iii. [75], when.
Quhaneir, iii. [75], whenever.
Quhar, i. 100, where.
Quhat, i. 143, what.
Quhatten, i. 83, what.
Quhen, i. 143, ii. 82, when.
Quhilk, ii. 116, which.
Quhy, i. 145, why.
Quhyle, ii. 83, while.
Quick, iii. [53], alive, living.
Quiere, ii. 288, choir.
Quillets, ii. 283, quibbles.
Quiristers, ii. 166, choristers.
Quitt, ii. 311, requite.
Quo, ii. 69, quoth.
Quyle, ii. 84, while.
Quyrry, i. 25, quarry of slaughtered game.
Quyt, ii. 85, quite.
Quyte, i. 34, requited.
Qwyknit, ii. 131, quickened, restored to life.
Rade, i. 147, rode.
Rae, ii. 24, roe.
Raigne, ii. 253, reign.
Raik, to go apace;
raik on raw, ii. 82, extend in a row.
Raise, ii. 69, rose.
Rampire, ii. 52, rampart.
Ranted, ii. 68, made merry.
Rashing, i. 208, the old hunting term for the stroke made by a wild boar with his fangs.
Raught, reached, gained, obtained.
Raw, ii. 82, row.
Rawstye, i. 116, damp(?)
Rayt, ii. 26, raught or reached.
Reachles, i. 113, careless.
Read, ii. 148;
reade, ii. 144, advice;
reade me, i. 87, advise me.
Rea'me, ii. 287, realm.
Reane, i. 34, rain.
Rearing, i. 88, leaning against.
Reas, i. 24, raise.
Reave, i. 89, 322, bereave.
Reckt, i. 143, regarded.
Reckyn, ii. 20, reckon.
Red, i. 101, read.
Redd, i. 79, advise.
Reddyl, ii. 23, riddle or sieve.
Rede, iii. [208];
redde, ii. 13, read.
Rede, i. 41, 66, iii. [94], advise;
rede I can, ii. 37, advice I know.
Rede, i. 48, guessed.
Redouted, i. 120, dreaded.
Redresse, ii. 78, care, labour.
Redyn, ii. 23, moved.
Reek, i. 145, smoke.
Reev, ii. 17;
reeve, iii. [179], bailiff.
Refe, ii. 20, bailiff.
Refe, bereave.
Reft, ii. 26, bereft.
Register, iii. [210], the officer who keeps the public register.
Reid, ii. 83, advise.
Reid, i. 59, 83, 146, red;
reid roan, i. 83, red roan.
Reivs, ii. 83, bereavest.
Rekeles, i. 42, regardless, rash.
Remeid, ii. 83, remedy.
Renisht, i. 88, harnessed.
Renn, i. 196;
renne, i. 160, ii. 89, run.
Renneth, iii. [108], runneth;
renning, ii. 142, running.
Renyed, i. 122, refused.
Reporte, i. 124, refer.
Rescous, ii. 40, rescues;
rescew, ii. 175, rescue.
Reve, ii. 23, bereave, deprive.
Revers, ii. 114, robbers, pirates, rovers.
Rew, ii. 82, take pity.
Rew, iii. [98];
rewe, i. 70, ii. 46, regret;
reweth, ii. 9, regrets;
rewyth, i. 42, regrets.
Rewth, i. 174, ruth, pity.
Riall, royal.
Richt, i. 101, right.
Riddle, vulgar idiom for unriddle, or corruption of reade, to advise.
Rin, i. 147;
rinn, i. 60, run;
rins, i. 59, runs;
rinnes, i. 42, runs.
Rise, shoot, bush, shrub.
Rive, i. 244, rend;
rives, i. 284;
rends.
Rive, ii. 386, rife, abounding.
Roche, i. 128, rock.
Rofe, ii. 41, roof.
Roke, i. 48, steam or smoke.
Ronne, ran;
roone, run.
Roo, i. 42, roe.
Roode, i. 76, cross, crucifix.
Rood loft, the place in the church where the images were set up.
Room, i. 84, large.
Roun, ii. 80, run.
Route, i. 158, company.
Route, iii. [108], go about, travel.
Routhe, i. 122, ruth, pity.
Row, i. 145;
rowd, i. 60,146, roll, rolled.
Rowght, i. 45;
rowte, ii. 26, rout.
Rowyned, round.
Rowned, rownyd, whispered.
Rudd, iii. [8], red, ruddy;
rud-red, iii. [22].
Rude, ii. 82;
rood, cross.
Ruell bones, ii. 22.
Rues, pitieth.
Rugged, ii. 27, pulled with violence.
Runnagate, ii. 294, runaway.
Rushy gair, ii. 86, rushy strip of land.
Ruthe, ii. 46, pity, woe.
Ryal, ii. 30;
ryall, i. 45, 129, royal.
Ryd, iii. [36], rode;
rydand, ii. 22, riding.
Ryde, i. 91, for ryse (?)
Rydere, i. 178, ranger.
Ryghtwes, i. 427, righteous.
Ryhte, ii. 9, right.
Rynde, i. 46, rent, flayed.
Ryschys, ii. 27, rushes.
Rywe, ii. 30, rue.
Ryyt, ii. 20, right;
even, ii. 23.
Sa, i. 144, ii. 26;
sae, i. 144, so.
Safer, sapphire.
Saft, ii. 110, soft;
saftly, ii. 107, softly.
Saif, i. 144, safe.
Saim, iii. [99], same.
Sair, i. 60, 147, sore.
Saisede, ii. 8, seized.
Sall, i. 60, 84, 143, shall.
Salvage, iii. [117], savage.
Sar, i. 31, sore.
Sarke, iii. [95], shirt;
shift, i. 321.
Sat, i. 31, set.
Sauls, ii. 114, souls.
Saut, iii. [99], salt.
Saw, say, speech, discourse.
Say, i. 30, saw.
Saye, iii. [64], essay, attempt.
Say us no harme, say no ill of us.
Say'n, ii. 69, saying.
Scant, i. 90, 321, scarce.
Scath, i. 65, hurt, injury.
Schadow, ii. 25, shadow.
Schal, ii. 20;
schall, i. 42, shall.
Schapen, ii. 24, shaped.
Schapped, i. 48, swapped (?), i.e. smote.
Scharpe, i. 46, 48, sharp.
Schatred, ii. 25, shattered.
Schaw, ii. 82, show.
Sche, i. 42, ii. 24, she.
Schene, sheen, also brightness.
Schepeskynnes, ii. 21, sheepskins.
Schip, i. 100, ship;
schiples, shipless.
Scho, i. 59, ii. 20, she.
Schone, i. 41, shone.
Schoone, i. 101, shoes.
Schoote, i. 45, shot, let go.
Schowte, i. 47;
schowtte, shout.
Schrill, shrill.
Schuke, shook.
Schuld, ii. 20;
schulde, i. 46, should.
Schulder, ii. 27, shoulder.
Sckill, iii. [327], skill.
Sckirmish, ii. 236, skirmish.
Sckore, ii. 236, score.
Sclat, ii. 16, slate.
Scomfet, ii. 23, discomfit.
Scorke, i. 259, struck.
Scot, ii. 9, tax, revenue;
also shot, reckoning, ii. 20.
See, ii. 8, sea.
Sed, iii. [47], said.
Seely, ii. 174;
seelie, iii. [68], poor, simple.
Seignour, ii. 135, Lord.
Seik, i. 60, seek.
Seires, iii. [328], for feires, i.e. mates.
Sek-ful, ii. 22, sackful.
Sel, iii. [96];
sell, iii. [123], self.
Selcouthe, ii. 391, strange.
Selven, ii. 32, self.
Selver, ii. 8, silver.
Sely, ii. 53, simple.
Semblyd, i. 25, assembled.
Sen, i. 34, ii. 83, iii. [95], since.
Seneschall, steward.
Senvy, mustard seed. Fr. senevé.
Serrett, i. 79, closed fist (?)
Sertayne, i. 48, certain;
sertenly, i. 49, 50, certainly.
Sese, ii. 49, seize.
Setywall, the herb valerian.
Sey, iii. [75], a kind of woollen stuff.
Sey yow, ii. 15, say to you;
I sey yow soth, ii. 16, I tell you truth.
Sey'd, ii. 114, tried.
Sey'd, saw.
Seyde, ii. 12, said.
Sha' na bide, ii. 116, shall not endure.
Shaint, ii. 360, saint.
Shave;
be shave, ii. 77, be shaven.
Shaw, ii. 114, show;
shaw'd, ii. 110, showed.
Shaws, i. 106, little woods.
Shear, i. 24, entirely.
Sheede, iii. [12], shed.
Sheel, ii. 98;
sheele, i. 88, 294, she'll, she will.
Sheene, i. 87, 106;
iii. [236], bright, brightness, beauty. Germ. schön.
Shees, ii. 70, she is.
Sheeve, ii. 256, shive, a great slice of bread.
Sheip, ii. 82, sheep;
sheips heid, ii. 132, sheep's head.
Sheits, i. 145, sheets.
Sheid, ii. 70, she would.
Shent, i. 72, 171, disgraced;
abashed, ii. 49;
confounded, ii. 84.
Shepenes, iii. [208], cowhouses, sheep pens. A.-S. scypen.
Shield bone, the blade bone, a common phrase in the north.
Shill, ii. 111, shrill.
Shimmer'd, iii. [237], glittered;
shimmering, ii. 142, shining by glances, glittering.
Sho, ii. 49, she.
Shoen, ii. 100, shoes.
Shold, sholde, should.
Shoone, i. 243, 320;
iii. [47], shoes.
Shope, iii. [54], shaped.
Shorte, ii. 43, shorten.
Shote, ii. 40, shoot.
Shott, ii. 149, reckoning.
Shoul, ii. 360, soul.
Shradds, i. 106, twigs.
Shreeven, iii. [10], shriven, confessed.
Shreward, ii. 9, a male shrew.
Shrive, ii. 60, confess;
hear confession, ii. 166.
Shroggs, i. 111, shrubs, thorns, briars.
Shuld, iii. [147];
shulde, i. 32, should.
Shullen, shall.
Shunted, ii. 137, shunned.
Shuntyng, ii. 19, recreation, diversion, sport.
Shyars, i. 24, shires.
Shynand, ii. 113, shining.
Sib, kin, akin.
Sic, i. 84;
sich, i. 327, such.
Sich, ii. 84, sigh;
sichit, ii. 81, sicht, ii. 86, sighed.
Sicht, ii. 114, sight.
Sick-like, iii. [123], such like.
Side, i. 375, long.
Sied, i. 147, saw.
Sigh clout, i. 197, a cloth to strain milk through.
Sighan, iii. [134], sighing.
Sik, i. 144;
sike, i. 320, such.
Siker, i. 323, secure, surely, certainly.
Silk, iii. [100], such.
Siller, ii. 230;
iii. [97], silver.
Silly, i. 192;
ii. 68, simple.
Silven, iii. [100], silver.
Sindle, ii. 115, seldom.
Sist, iii. [55], sighed.
Sith, i. 68, 133, since.
Sitten, iii. [99], sat.
Sitteth, ii. 7, sit ye.
Skaith, ii. 115, scath, harm, mischief.
Skinker, one that serves drink.
Skinkled, iii. [237], glittered.
Skore, i. 28, score.
Slade, i. 108, a breadth of greensward between ploughlands or woods.
Slaited, iii. [98], wiped.
Slatred, ii. 25, broke into splinters.
Slaw, i. 308, slew.
Slaw, ii. 107, slow.
Sle, i. 15, slay;
sleest, slayest, i. 123.
Slee, ii. 69, sly.
Slean, i. 31, 33, 34, slain.
Sleath, iii. [108], slayeth.
Slein, ii. 70, slain.
Sleip, i. 60;
sleipe, ii. 211, sleep.
Sleive, iii. [95], sleeve.
Slo, i. 120;
sloe, i. 69, slay.
Slode, i. 66, 79, slit, split.
Slone, i. 49, 67, slain.
Sloughe, i. 28, slew.
Sma', i. 145, small;
little, iii. [95].
Smire, iii. [327] (? for swire = neck).
Smithers, i. 145, smothers.
Snae, iii. [97];
snaw, ii. 69, snow.
Soar, i. 31, sore.
Sodenly, ii. 15, suddenly.
Solacious, i. 130;
affording solace.
Soldan, i. 73, 74, 80;
sowdan, i. 96, sultan.
Soll, i. 34, soul.
Son, ii. 23, soon;
sone, ii. 44, soon.
Sond, ii. 26, sending, present.
Sone, ii. 41, soon.
Soothe, ii. 55, truth, true.
Sort, i. 122, 126, set, company.
Soth, i. 43, 49, 50, 51;
ii. 16;
iii. [30], truth, true.
Sothe, i. 27, south.
Sould, ii. 69, should.
Souldan, iii. [110], sultan.
Souling, ii. 257, victualling.

Sowle is still used in the north for anything eaten with bread. P.

Souse, iii. [181], the head, feet and ears of swine boiled and pickled for eating.
Souter, i. 416, psaltry.
Sowne, ii. 52, sound.
Sowre, sour.
Sowre, sore.
Sowter, i. 416, a shoemaker.
Soy, i. 320, silk.
Spack, ii. 230;
iii. [96], spake.
Spec, ii. 13, spake.
Speere, ii. 144;
speered, ii. 144, sparred, fastened, shut.

So in an old "Treatyse agaynst Pestilence, etc. 4to Emprynted by Wynkyn de Worde:" we are exhorted to "Spere [i.e. shut or bar] the wyndowes ayenst the south." fol. 5. P.

Speid, iii. [94], speed.
Speik, iii. [96], speak.
Speir, ii. 69;
iii. [95], ask, inquire.

So Chaucer, in his Rhyme of Sir Thopas—

——"He foughte north and south,
And oft he spired with his mouth."

i.e. "inquired." Not spied, as in the new edit. of Cant. Tales, vol. ii. p. 234. P.

Speir, iii. [98], spear.
Spek, ii. 12, spoke;
speken, iii. [207], speak.
Spence, ii. 52;
spens, ii. 21, expense.
Spendyd, grasped.
Spill, i. 196, iii. [51];
spille, i. 75, spoil, kill.
Spillan, iii. [134], spilling.
Spindles and whorles, ii. 71, the instruments used for spinning in Scotland instead of spinning-wheels.

"The Rock, Spindles, and Whorles are very much used in Scotland and the northern parts of Northumberland at this time. The thread for shoemakers, and even some linen webs, and all the twine of which the Tweed salmon-nets are made, are spun upon spindles. They are said to make a more even and smooth thread than spinning-wheels." (Mr. Lambe.) P.

Spittle, ii. 282, hospital.
Splene;
on the splene, ii. 46, in haste.
Spole, ii. 198, shoulder.
Sporeles, ii. 9, spurless, without spurs.
Sprente, i. 29, spurted out, sprung out.
Sprite, iii. [132], spirit.
Spurging, ii. 197, drivelling froth.
Spurn, i. 34, a kick.
Spylt, i. 123, spoiled, destroyed.
Squelsh, iii. [295], a blow or bang.
Squyer, ii. 44;
squyere, ii. 44, squire.
Stalworth, ii. 19, stout.
Stalwurthlye, i. 41, stoutly.
Stane, i. 145, stone.
Starke, i. 72, stout, strong.
Startopes, ii. 256, buskins or half boots.
Stean, i. 103, iii. [99], stone.
Stede, ii. 23, place.
Steid, i. 83, iii. [98], steed.
Steill, ii. 131, steel.
Steir, ii. 83, stir.
Stel, ii. 8, steel.
Stele, ii. 46, steal.
Sterne, i. 28, fierce ones.
Sterris, stars.
Sterte, i. 69, 73, start;
sterted, iii. [15], started.
Sterve, ii. 16, die, perish.
Steven, i. 115, iii. [26], voice, sound.
Steven, i. 111, time.
Stint, i. 68, 133, 273, stop, stopped.
Stond, ii. 26, stand.
Stonderes, standers by.
Stonds, i. 44, stands.
Stound, i. 165, hour.
Stounde, i. 48, time;
for awhile, ii. 11.
Stoup, ii. 117, stoop.
Stoup of weir, ii. 115, a pillar of war.
Stour, i. 31, 96;
stower, i. 66, iii. [26];
stowre, i. 49, 74, 168, iii. [14], strong, fierce, stir, fight.

This word is applied in the North to signify dust agitated and put in motion, as by the sweeping of a room, &c. P.

Stown, ii. 69, stolen.
Stra, ii. 24;
strae, ii. 69, iii. [98], straw.
Strake, ii. 117, struck.
Strekene, i. 29, stricken, struck.
Stret, street.
Strick, i. 322, strict.
Strike, stricken.
Stroke, i. 28;
stroken, i. 228, struck.
Strout, iii. [119], strut.
Stude, i. 143, iii. [95], stood.
Styntyde, i. 30, stinted, stayed, stopped.
Styrande, i. 40, stirring.
Styrt, ii. 26, started.
Suar, i. 28, 30, sure.
Suld, ii. 21, should.
Sum, i. 83, 146, ii. 25, some.
Summere, iii. [108], a sumpter horse.
Sumpters, i. 302, horses that carry clothes, furniture, &c.
Sune, soon.
Surmount, iii. [172], surpass.
Suore bi ys chyn, ii. 9, sworn by his chin.
Supprised, i. 124, overpowered.
Suraunce, ii. 49, assurance.
Suthe, ii. 386, soon, quickly.
Swa, ii. 24, so.
Swage, ii. 342, assuage;
swaged, ii. 180, assuaged.
Swapte, i. 29;
swapped, i. 48, struck violently, exchanged blows.
Sware, ii. 12, ii. 361, swearing, oath.
Swarned, ii. 206, climbed.
Swarved, ii. 197, climbed, swarmed.

To swarm, in the midland counties, is to draw oneself up a tree or any other thing, clinging to it with the legs and arms. P.

Swat, i. 29, did sweat.
Swear, sware.
Swearde, ii. 128, sword.
Sweaven, i. 106, ii. 63;
sweven, ii. 56, a dream.
Sweere, iii. [21], neck.
Sweit, iii. [74];
swete, ii. 19, sweet;
sweitly, ii. 212, sweetly.
Swepyls, ii. 25,

"a swepyl is that staff of the flail with which the corn is beaten out. Vulg. a supple (called in the midland counties a swindgell, where the other part is termed the hand-staff)." P.

Swerdes, ii. 8, swords.
Swiche, i. 430, such.
Swith, i. 96, ii. 119, quickly, instantly, at once.
Swound, i. 240, 296, ii. 179, swoon.
Swyke, sigh.
Swynkers, ii. 19, labourers.
Swyppyng, ii. 25, striking fast.
Swyving, ii. 8, wenching, lechery.
Sych, ii. 19, such.
Syd, side;
on sydis shear, i. 25, on all sides.
Syn, ii. 16, since.
Syne, i. 43, ii. 114, iii. [147], then, afterwards.
Syns, since.
Syschemell, ii. 74, Ishmael.
Syth, ii. 38, since.
Syyt, ii. 27, sight.
Taiken, ii. 118, taken.
Tain, iii. [94];
taine, i. 59, taken.
Tane, i. 289, ii. 193, taken.
Tane, iii. [238], the one.
Tarbox, ii. 256, box containing tar for anointing sores in sheep, &c.
Targe, ii. 53, target, shield.
Tauld, ii. 109, told.
Tayne, i. 50, taken.
Te, ii. 7, to;
te-knowe, ii. 11, to know;
te-make, to make.
Te-he, ii. 26, interjection of laughing.
Tear, i. 34, tearing or pulling.
Teene, i. 162, vexation;
i. 284, 291, injury; iii. [194], trouble;
teenefu, i. 147, wrathful.
Teene, i. 77, vex.
Teir, i. 101, tear.
Tene, i. 120, wrath.
Tenebrus, i. 128, dark.
Tent, ii. 83, heed.
Termagaunt, i. 85, 96, the god of the Saracens.

The old French Romancers, who had corrupted Termagant into Tervagant, couple it with the name of Mahomet as constantly as ours; thus in the old Roman de Blanchardin,

"Cy guerpison tuit Apolin,
Et Mahomet et Tervagant."

Hence La Fontaine, with great humour, in his Tale, intitled La Fiancée du Roy de Garbe, says,

"Et reniant Mahom, Jupin, et Tervagant,
Avec maint autre Dieu non moins extravagant."

—Mem. de l'Acad. des Inscript. tom. 20, 4to. p. 352.

As Termagant is evidently of Anglo-Saxon derivation and can only be explained from the elements of that language, its being corrupted by the old French Romancers proves that they borrowed some things from ours. P.

Terrene, iii. [299], earthly.
Terry, ii. 19, Thierry, or a diminutive of Terence.
Tester, iii. [206], teston, or sixpence.
Tha, ii. 26, them.
Thah, ii. 7, though.
Thair, ii. 82, iii. [99], there.
Tham, ii. 21;
thame, i. 84, 102, 146, them.
Than, i. 145, 206, then.
Thanns, ii. 25, thence.
Thay, i. 321, they.
Thaym, ii. 23, them.
Thayr, ii. 21, their.
The, they;
the wear, i. 29, they were.
The, i. 189, ii. 13, thee.
The God, ii. 30, contraction for the he (i.e. high) God. P.
Thear, i. 33, there;
i. 29, their.
Theder, ii. 19;
thedyr, ii. 28, thither.
Thee, ii. 97, thrive;
so mote I thee, ii. 97, so may I thrive.

So in Chaucer, Cant. Tales, vol. i. p. 308, "God let him never the." P.

Then, than.
Ther, ii. 21;
there i. 289, their.
Ther, ii. 23, where.
Thes, ii. 19, these.
Thether, i. 41, thither.
They, i. 78, the.
Theyther-ward, thitherward, towards that place.
Thie, thy.
Thii, ii. 386, they.
Thilke, ii. 14, this.
Thir, ii. 69, this, these;
thir towmonds, ii. 82, these twelve months.
Tho, i. 207, then;
those, ii. 39.
Thocht, iii. [94], thought.
Thole, ii. 119, suffer.
Thore, ii. 13, there.
Thorow, ii. 30;
thorrow, i. 291, through;
thorowout, ii. 15, throughout.
Thouse, i. 198, thou art;
thou shalt, iii. [131].
Thoust, i. 289, thou shalt or shouldst.
Thowe, thou.
Thrall, i. 297, ii. 79, captive,;
captivity, i. 75, 135;
ii. 256.
Thrang, ii. 115, throng;
close, ii. 69.
Thraste, iii. [216], thrust.
Thrawis, throes.
Thrawn, ii. 115, thrown.
Threape, i. 198, to argue, to affirm or assert in a positive overbearing manner.
Threven, ii. 133, thrived.
Threw, ii. 214, drew.
Threw, iii. [238], thrived.
Thrie, three.
Thrif, thrive.
Thrild upon a pinn, iii. [47], twirled or twisted the door pin.
Thrittè, i. 34, thirty;
thritti thou sent, ii. 7, thirty thousand.
Thronge, i. 163, hastened.
Thropes, iii. [208], villages.
Through-girt, ii. 78, pierced through.
Throw, iii. [134], through.
Thruch, throuch, through.
Thrughe, through.
Thrustand, ii. 23, thrusting.
Thryes, ii. 23, thrice.
Thrysse, i. 47, thrice.
Thud, ii. 119, dull sound.
Tickle, ii. 299, uncertain.
Tift, iii. [237], puff of wind.
Till, i. 33, 65, 143, ii. 82, unto.
Till, i. 94, entice.
Timkin, diminutive of Timothy.
Tine, i. 64, lose;
tint, i. 71;
ii. 363, lost.
Tirled at the pin, iii. [131], twirled or twisted the door pin.
Tividale, i. 25, Teviotdale.
To, too, two.
Tokenyng, ii. 22, token.
Tomkyn, ii. 19, diminutive of Thomas.
To-flatred, ii. 25, slit.
To-rente, iii. [356], rent.
To-schatred, ii. 25, shattered.
To-slatered, ii. 25, splintered.
Tone, i. 42, 87, iii. [103], the one.
Too-fall, ii. 365, twilight.

"Too-fall of the night" seems to be an image drawn from a suspended canopy, so let fall as to cover what is below. (Mr. Lambe.) P.

Tooken, i. 274, took.
Tor, a tower;
also a high pointed rock or hill.
Torn, i. 187, turn.
Tothar, i. 31, the other.
Tother, i. 87, the other.
Toun, i. 143;
town, i. 321, dwelling-house.
Tow, i. 145, to let down with a rope;
towd, i. 146, let down.
Tow, i. 106;
towe, i. 31, 87, two.
Towmonds, ii. 82, twelve months.
Towyn, i. 41, town.
Traitorye, i. 283, 289, ii. 309;
traytery, ii. 224, treason.
Tre, i. 28, ii. 13, wood;
i. 30, staff.
Tree, i. 291, ill.
Trewest, ii. 11, truest.
Treytory, i. 124, treachery.
Trichard, ii. 7, treacherous.
Tricthen (should be trichen), ii. 7, deceive.
Triest furth, iii. [94], draw forth to an assignation.
Trifulcate, three forked, three pointed.
Trippand, ii. 27, tripping.
Trim, i. 191, exact.
Troate, ii. 360, throat.
Trogh, ii. 24, trough.
Trone, yn trone, i. 43, enthroned.
Troth, iii. [131], truth, faith, fidelity;
trothles, i. 201, faithless.
Trough, trouth, troth.
Trouth plyyt, ii. 27, truth plight.
Trow, ii. 95, true.
Trow, iii. [96];
trowe, i. 270, believe, trust, also verily.
Trumped, boasted, told bragging lies;
a trump, a lie.
Tuik, i. 322, took.
Tuke gude keip, ii. 84, took good watch.
Tull, i. 320;
for till, to.
Tup, ii. 257, ram.
Turn, such turn, such an occasion.
Turnes a crab, ii. 258, roasts a crab apple.
Tush, ii. 57, tusk.
Twa, i. 320;
ii. 26, two.
Twatling, iii. [187], trifling.
Twaw, i. 27, two.
Twayne, ii. 37, two.
Twin'd, i. 59, parted in two.
Twirtle twist, ii. 112, twirled twist.
Twyes, ii. 23, twice.
Tyb, ii. 20, the diminutive of Isabel.
Tyll. com the tyll, i. 42, come unto thee.
Tyrry, ii. 26. See Terry.
Uch, ii. 14, each.
Ugsome, shocking, horrible.
'Um, iii. [333], them.
Unbethought, iii. [51], for bethought.
Undermeles, iii. [208], afternoons.
Undight, i. 309, undecked.
Unfeeled, opened, a term in falconry.
Unhap, ii. 77, mishap.
Unkempt, ii. 77, uncombed.
Unmacklye, i. 73, 80, mis-shapen.
Unmufit, undisturbed.
Unright, ii. 191, wrong.
Unsett steven, i. 111, unappointed time, unexpectedly.
Unsonsie, ii. 116, unlucky, unfortunate.
Untill, iii. [49];
untyll, i. 162, unto.
Upo, ii. 70, upon.
Ure, iii. [262], use.
Uthers, ii. 86, others.
Vaints, ii. 289, faints.
Vair, ii. 286, fair.
Valeies, ii. 41, valleys.
Vart, ii. 286, fart.
Vazen, ii. 286, for faith.
Vellow, ii. 286;
vellowe, ii. 287, fellow.
Venge, ii. 117, revenge.
Venu, iii. [356], approach, coming.
Verament, i. 25, 28, truly.
Vices, i. 129, devices.
Vilane, rascally.
Vitayle, ii. 42, victual.
Vive, ii. 386, five.
Vools, ii. 288, fools;
voolish, ii. 288, foolish.
Vor, ii. 286, for.
Vorty, ii. 287, forty.
Vourteen, ii. 287, fourteen.
Voyded, i. 166, quitted, left the place.
Vrier, ii. 286, friar.
Wa, i. 142, 143, ii. 109, iii. [93], [95], wall.
Wache, i. 43, a spy.
Wad, i. 60, 145, 321, would.
Wadded, iii. [7], light-blue or woad-coloured.
Wadna, ii. 13, would not.
Wae, i. 83, 320, woe;
waefo', iii. [100];
waefu', ii. 110, woeful.
Wae worth, i. 145, 322, woe betide.
Wald, i. 145;
walde, iii. [94], would.
Walker, iii. [8], a fuller of cloth.
Walowit, ii. 119, faded, withered.
Waltering, i. 75, ii. 119, weltering;
waltred, tumbled or rolled about.
Waly, iii. [147], an interjection of lamentation.
Wame, iii. [238], womb, belly.
Wan, i. 72, 244;
ii. 26, won.
Wan near, ii. 120, drew near.
Wane, i. 29, the same as ane, one, so wone is one.

In fol. 355 of Bannatyne's MS. is a short fragment, in which "wane" is used for "ane" or "one," viz.:—

"Amongst the monsters that we find,
There's wane belovved of woman-kind,
Renowned for antiquity,
From Adame drivs his pedigree." P.

The word wane in the text, however, is probably a misreading for mane.

Wanrufe, ii. 83, uneasy.
War, i. 25, aware.
War ant wys, ii. 11, wary and wise.
Ward, ii. 120, watch, sentinel, warder.
Warde, iii. [97], advise, forewarn.
Ware, i. 43, 107, 158, aware.
Ware, i. 306, wore.
Ware, iii. [238], were.
Warke, work.
Warld, ii. 85, world;
warldis, i. 84, worlds.
Waryd, ii. 20, accursed.
Waryson, i. 46, reward.
Wassel, iii. [27], drinking, good cheer.
Wat, i. 322, ii. 68, wet.
Wat, i. 27, know.
Wate, iii. [97], blamed. (Preterite of wyte, to blame.)
Wauld, iii. [95], would.
Wayde, waved.
Wayed, iii. [195], weighed.
Weal, i. 33, wail.
Weale, well.
Wear, i. 29, were.
Wear-in, iii. [74], drive in gently.
Wearifu', ii. 70, wearisome, troublesome, tiresome, disturbing.
Weddeen, iii. [236], wedding.
Wedder, ii. 83, weather.
Wede, ii. 21, clothing.
Wedous, i. 33, widows.
Wee, ii. 69, little.
Weede, iii. [59], clothing, dress;
weeds, i. 88, 246, garments.
Weell, iii. [51], we'll, we will.
Weel, ii. 132;
weele, i. 150, well.
Weel-faur'd, ii. 139, well-favoured.
Weene, i. 193, think;
ween'd, i. 143;
weened, ii. 80;
weende, ii. 96, thought.
Weete, i. 101, ii. 216, wet.
Weet, ii. 95, know.
Weids, ii. 364, cloathing.
Weil, i. 145, well.
Weip, i. 60;
weipe, ii. 211, weep.
Weir, ii. 115, war.
Weird, iii. [224], witch-like.
Weit, ii. 231, wet.
Wel longe, ii. 13, very long.
Wel-awaye, iii. [128], an interjection of grief.
Weldynge, ruling.
Wele, ii. 24, well.
Welkin, iii. [201], the sky.
Wem, iii. [303], spot.
Wem, iii. [357], hurt.
Weme, i. 284, 291, hollow.
Wend, i. 156, ii. 13, go.
Wend, ii. 85;
wende, i. 170, thought;
wende do, ii. 8, thought to do.
Wenden, ii. 12, go.
Went, i. 164, thought.
Wer, iii. [134], were.
Wereth, defendeth.
Werke, i. 163, 306, work.
Werre, ii. 11, war.
Werryed, ii. 65, worried.
Wes, ii. 8, was.
Westlin, ii. 120, western.
Westlings, whistling.
Wete, i. 31, wet.
Wether, iii. [328], whether.
Wex, iii. [238], wax, grow.
Wha, ii. 71, who.
Whair, ii. 69, where;
whair-eir, ii. 212, wherever.
Wham, ii. 11, whom.
Whan, i. 318, when.
Whang, ii. 70, a large slice.
Wheder, ii. 37, whither.
Whelyng, ii. 49, wheeling.
Whig, i. 299, ii. 256, sour whey, buttermilk.
While, until.
Whilk, ii. 71, which.
Whirry, iii. [202], laugh.
Whittles, knives.
Whoard, i. 214, hoard.
Whorles (see spindles).
Whyll, i. 48, while.
Whyllys, i. 30, whilst.
Wi', ii. 68, with.
Wight, i. 63, 65, 72, 191, man, human being.
Wight, i. 107, 288, strong, lusty.
Wightlye, i. 64, 78, swiftly, vigorously.
Wighty, i. 106, 147;
wightye, i. 161, strong, active.
Wild-worme, iii. [30], [36], serpent.
Wildings, ii. 257, wild or crab apples.
Wilfull, i. 110, ignorant.
Windar, iii. [302], a kind of hawk.
Windling, winding.
Winna, iii. [96];
winnae, i. 59, 144, will not.
Winyard, iii. [297], long knife or short cutlass.
Winsome, i. 323, ii. 70, 363, agreeable, engaging.
Wirk, ii. 83, do.
Wis, i. 269, know;
wist, i. 72, iii. [148], knew.
Witchd, iii. [24], bewitched.
Withouten, i. 126;
withowtten, i. 41;
withowghten, i. 40, 43, without.
Wive, ii. 255, marry.
Wo, ii. 81, 86, woe.
Wobster, ii. 131, webster, weaver.
Wod, ii. 82;
wode, i. 122, 160, 163, mad, wild.
Wod, iii. [94];
wode, i. 156, ii. 37, wood.
Wodewarde, ii. 43, towards the wood.
Woe-man, a sorrowful man.
Woe worth, ii. 215, woe be to thee.
Wolden, i. 274, would.
Woll, ii. 24, wool.
Wolle, ii. 38, will.
Won, ii. 49, wont, usage.
Won'd, i. 306, dwelt.
Wonde, wounde, winded.
Wonders, wondrous.
Wondersly, i. 125, wondrously.
Wone, i. 31, one.
Wonne, dwell.
Woo, i. 28, woe.
Wood, i. 145, ii. 145;
woode, iii. [57], mad, furious.
Wood-wroth, iii. [238], furiously enraged.
Woodweele, i. 106, the golden ouzle, a bird of the thrush kind.
Worm, iii. [30], [36], serpent.
Worship, i. 121, honour.
Worshipfully frended, of worshipful friends.
Wot, i. 69;
wott, ii. 139, know;
wotes, i. 219, knows.
Wouche, i. 28, mischief, wrong.
Wowe, i. 300, woo.
Wow, iii. [75], who.
Wow, ii. 22, vow.
Wrack, i. 296;
wracke, iii. [41], wreck, ruin, destruction;
wracked, iii. [117], wrecked.
Wrang, i. 147, wrung.
Wrange, i. 41, wrong.
Wreake, ii. 135, pursue revengefully.
Wrench, ii. 81, 86, wretchedness.
Wringe, i. 122, to contend with violence.
Writhe, i. 286, writhed, twisted.
Wroken, i. 106, 147, revenged.
Wrong, i. 166, wrung.
Wrotyn, ii. 22, wrought.
Wrouyt, ii. 30, wrought.
Wry, ii. 49, turn aside.
Wul, i. 83, 143;
wull, iii. [235], will.
Wych, i. 44, which.
Wyld, i. 24, wild deer.
Wynn ther haye, i. 40, gather in their hay.
Wynne, i. 43, ii. 20, joy, pleasure.
Wynne, iii. [279], heard.
Wynnen, ii. 12, win, gain.
Wyrch wyselyer, ii. 24, work more wisely.
Wysse, ii. 12, 14, teach, govern.
Wyst, ii. 26;
wyste, i. 25, knew.
Wyt, know;
wyt wold I, ii. 20, know would I.
Wyte, iii. [97], blame.
Y, ii. 12, I;
y singe, ii. 11, I sing.
Y-beare, ii. 57, bear;
y-boren, ii. 8, borne.
Y-bent, bent.
Y-built, iii. [272], built.
Y-cald, iii. [374], called.
Y-chesyled, i. 129, chiselled.
Y-cleped, i. 326, named, called.
Y-con'd, i. 306, taught, instructed.
Y-core, ii. 12, chosen.
Y-fere, ii. 76, together.
Y-founde, ii. 13, found.
Y-mad, ii. 13, made.
Y-picking, i. 307, picking, culling.
Y-slaw, i. 175, slain.
Y-told, iii. [374], told.
Y-were, i. 87, were.
Y-wis, i. 132;
ii. 12, verily.
Y-wonne, ii. 13, won.
Y-wrought, i. 306;
iii. [275], wrought.
Y-yote, ii. 14, cast.
Yae, iii. [237], each.
Yalping, ii. 170, yelping.
Yaned, iii. [357], yawned.
Yate, i. 92;
iii. [62], gate;
yates, i. 144.
Yave, i. 272, gave.
Ych, i. 31, 48;
ycha, ii. 23, each, every.
Ych, ii. 26, same.
Ycholde, ii. 12, I would.
Ychone, i. 49, each one.
Ychulle, iii. [363], I shall.
Ydle, idle.
Yeaning, ii. 257, bringing forth young.
Yearded, ii. 384, buried, earthed.
Yeats, iii. [93], gates.
Yebent, i. 28, bent.
Yede, ii. 21, 44, went.
Yee, eye.
Yef, ii. 12, if.
Yeid, ii. 81, went.
Yeir, i. 101, year.
Yeme, ii. 12, take care of, govern.
Yender, yonder.
Yenoughe, i. 28, 34, enough.
Yent, ii. 11, through.
Yerarchy, i. 126, hierarchy.
Yerle, i. 26, 28, 29, 48, earl;
yerlle, i. 40, 44, 49.
Yerly, i. 24, early.
Yerly, i. 440, yearly.
Ye's, ii. 132;
ye'se, iii. [134], ye shall.
Yestreen, ii. 111, last evening.
Yet, ii. 20, still.
Yf, ii. 23, though.
Ygnoraunce, i. 441, ignorance.
Ying, iii. [374];
yinge, iii. [374], young.
Yit, yet.
Ylk, ii. 26, same.
Yll, ii. 36, ill.
Ylythe, listen.
Yn, ii. 9, house.
Yngglishe, i. 28, 47, 50, English.
Ynglonde, i. 27, 32, 34, 43, England.
Ynough, i. 155, enough.
Yode, iii. [67], went.
Yond, i. 285;
ii. 191;
yonds, i. 291, yonder.
Yong, i. 271;
yonge, ii. 38, young.
Youd, iii. [48], went.
Youle, i. 274, 290, you will.
Your lane, iii. [94], alone, by yourself.
Youst, i. 290, you will.
Yow, ii. 16, you.
Ys, i. 189;
ii. 14, is; ii. 12, his.
Yt, it.
Yth, i. 25, in the.
Yule, ii. 229, Christmas.

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[In several of the poems Percy used the letter z to represent the Anglo-Saxon character ȝ, but as this is incorrect, and, moreover, gives rise to a very frequent mispronunciation, the z has been replaced by y in this edition, and several words have therefore been left out that occurred in the original glossary.]

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Zacring bell, ii. 288, sacring bell,

a little bell rung to give notice of the elevation of the host. P.

Zaints, ii. 289, saints.
Zaw, ii. 290, saw.
Zay, ii. 287, say.
Zee, ii. 286, see;
zeene, ii. 287 seen.
Zelf, ii. 287, self.
Zet, ii. 289, set.
Zhall, ii. 288, shall.
Zhowe, ii. 288, show.
Zinging, ii. 289, singing.
Zmell, ii. 286, smell.
Zo, ii. 289, so.
Zold, ii. 287, sold.
Zometimes, ii. 286, sometimes.
Zon, ii. 290, son.
Zorrow, ii. 289, sorrow.
Zorts, ii. 286, sorts.
Zubtil, ii. 290, subtil.
Zuch, ii. 288, such.
Zure, ii. 288, sure.
Zweet, ii. 289, sweet.

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[INDEX
TO THE THREE VOLUMES.]

The Titles of the various Poems included in the Reliques are distinguished from the other entries by being printed in italics.

A, Robyn, jolly Robyn, I. 185-187.
Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley, I. 153-179.
Admiral Hosier's Ghost, II. 367-371.
Aged Lover renounceth Love, by Lord Vaux, I. 179-182.
Agincourt, For the Victory of, II. 29-31.
Alcanzor and Zayda, translated by Percy, I. 338-342.
Aldingar (Sir), II. 54-67.
—— Version from the folio MS. II. 61-67.
Alexandrine or Anapestic verse, II. 386.
Alfred the Great as a Harper, I. 399.
Alliterative metre without rhyme, II. 377-394.
Althea (To) from Prison, II. 321-323.
Ambree (Mary), II. 231-237.
—— Version from the folio MS. II. 235-237.
"Amys and Amelion," III. [373].
Anderson (John), the town crier of Kelso, II. 132.
Argentile and Curan, II. 252-262.
Arthour and Merlin, Romance of, III. [369].
Arthur (King), Poems on, III. [3]-[43].
—— King Arthur and the King of Cornwall, III. [367].
—— Legend of King Arthur, III. [3]-[43].
—— King Arthur's Death, a Fragment, III. [27]-[35].
—— —— Version from the folio MS. III. [35]-[39].
—— Le Morte Arthure, III. [366]
As ye came from the Holy Land, II. 101-103.
—— Copy from the folio MS. 104-105.
Auld (The) Good-man, III. [122]-[124].
Baffled Knight, or Lady's Policy, II. 336-342.
Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, III. [135]-[137].
Balet by the Earl of Rivers, II. 48-49.
Ballad of Constant Susanna, I. 209.
Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman, II. 125-130.
Ballads and Ballad-Writers, I. xxiv.-xliv.
—— Imitators and Forgers of, I. xliv.-xlviii.
—— Authenticity of certain, I. xlviii.-lviii.
—— Preservers of the, I. lviii.-lxxii.
—— Collections of printed, I. lxiii.-lxv.
—— "Collection of old Ballads," I. lxix.
—— that illustrate Shakespeare, I. 151-246.
—— Ballad Literature since Percy, I. xci.-xcvii.
—— Meaning of the word ballad, I. xxx. 423.
—— Ballad-singers, I. xxxiii.-xxxiv.
Balowe, II. 209-213.
Bannatyne MS. I. lxii.
Barbara Allan, Sir John Grehme and, III. [133]-[135].
Barbara Allen's Cruelty, III. [128]-[130].
Bards, successors of the ancient, I. 385.
Barton (Sir Andrew), II. 188-208.
—— Version from the folio MS. II. 201-208.
Battle of Otterbourne, I. 35-54.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Farewell to Love, I. 310.
Bedlam, Old Tom of, II. 344-347.
Bednall Green, Beggar's Daughter of, II. 171-185.
Bedwell (William), II. 19.
Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green, II. 171-185.
"Belesant (Lady), the Duke of Lombardy's fair Daughter," III. [373].
"Bevis (Sir) of Hampton," referred to, III. [215], [265], [279], [357], [365].
Birth of St. George, III. [215]-[224].
Blondell de Nesle, the Minstrell, I. 359.
Bodwell (Earle), II. 215-218.
Bohemia, Elizabeth, Queen of, II. 312.
Bolle (Sir John), II. 247.
Bond-story in the "Merchant of Venice," I. 211.
Bonny Earl of Murray, II. 226-228.
Bosville's (Godfrey), explanation of the "Dragon of Wantley," III. [281].
Bothwell's (Lady Anne) Lament, II. 209-213.
Boy and the Mantle, III. [3]-[12].
Boy and the Mantle, as revised and altered by a modern hand, III. [315]-[323].
Braes of Yarrow, II. 362-367.
Brandon's (Charles) livery and device, III. [167] (note).
Brave Lord Willoughbey, II. 238-241.
Breton (Nicholas), III. [67], [80].
Bride's Burial, III. [148]-[152].
Bridges, Gascoigne's Praise of the Fair, II. 150-154.
Brown, Epithet applied to a sword, I. 122.
Brown (Mrs.) of Falkland, I. lxvi.
Bryan and Pereene, by J. Grainger, I. 328-331.
Cadiz, Taking of, by the English, II. 243.
Caliburn, King Arthur's Sword, III. [32].
Carew (Thomas), Unfading Beauty, III. [239].
Carey (Henry), Distracted Lover, II. 355-357.
Carle of Carlisle, III. [367].
"Carre (Captain)", from the folio MS. I. 148-150.
Cauline (Sir), I. 61-81.
—— Copy from the folio MS. I. 76-81.
Chambers (Robert), "Romantic Scottish Ballads" noticed, I. l.
Character of a Happy Life, by Sir H. Wotton, I. 317-318.
Charing-Cross, Downfall of, II. 323-326.
Charles I., Verses by, II. 329-326.
Chaucer, Original Ballad by, II. 14-16.
"Chevalere Assigne," an alliterative romance, II. 381; III. [369].
Cheviot Hills, the scene of Chevy Chase, I. 254.
Chevy Chase, the Ancient Ballad of, I. 19-35.
—— —— Names mentioned in, I. 51-52.
—— The more Modern Ballad of, I. 249-264.
—— —— Names mentioned in, I. 263-264.
Child of Elle, I. 131-139.
—— Copy from the folio MS. I. 138-139.
Child Waters, III. [58]-[65].
Children in the Wood, III. [169]-[176].
Chylde Ipomydon, a Romance, III. [371].
Clym of the Clough, I. 153.
Clyne (Norval) on the authenticity of Sir Patrick Spence, I. lii.
Complaint of Conscience, II. 279-285.
Constant Penelope, III. [261]-[264].
Cophetua (King) and the Beggar-Maid, I. 189-194.
Coppe, an enthusiast, II. 349 (note).
Corbet (Bishop Richard), Fairies Farewell, III. [207]-[213].
—— The Distracted Puritan, II. 347-351.
Corin's Fate, II. 262-263.
Corydon's Doleful Knell, II. 274-276.
Corydon's Farewell to Phillis, I. 209-211.
Courtier, Old and Young, II. 314-318.
Crants, Ophelia's virgin, III. [152] (note).
Cromwell (Thomas Lord), II. 71-75.
Cunningham's (Allan) forged Ballads, I. xlvi.
Cupid, Hue and Cry after, III. [159]-[161].
Cupid and Campaspe, by John Lilye, III. [85]-[86].
Cupid's Assault, by Lord Vaux, II. 50-53.
Cupid's Pastime, I. 314-317.
Cymmortha in Wales, I. xix.
Daniel (S.), Ulysses and the Syren, I. 311-314.
Darnley, Ballad on his Murder, II. 213-218.
Dawson (Jemmy), II. 371-374.
"Death and Life," an alliterative Poem, II. 383.
Degree (Sir), a Romance, III. [371].
Deloney (Thomas), Ballad-Writer, I. xxxviii.
—— Sir Lancelot du Lake, I. 204-209.
—— The King of France's Daughter, III. [161]-[168].
—— The Winning of Cales, II. 243-246.
Dido (Queen), III. [191]-[196].
"Dioclesian, the Emperour," III. [373].
Distracted Lover, II. 355-357.
Distracted Puritan, II. 347-351.
Douglas, Heraldic Arms of the House of, I. 47.
Downfall of Charing Cross, II. 323-326.
Dowsabell, by Michael Drayton, I. 304-310.
Dragon of Wantley, III. [279]-[288].
Drayton (Michael), Dowsabell, I. 304-310.
Dulcina, III. [153]-[155].
D'Urfey (Tom), Frantic Lady, II. 357-358.
—— Lady distracted with Love, II. 354-355.
Dyer (Sir E.), My Mind to Me a Kingdom is, I. 294-298.
Dyttie to Hey Downe, III. [44]-[45].
Edom o'Gordon, I. 140-150.
—— Copy from the folio MS. I. 148-150.
Edward, Edward, a Scottish Ballad, I. 82-84.
Edward I., on the Death of, II. 10-14.
Edward IV. and Tanner of Tamworth, II. 92-100.
Edwards (Richard) A Song to the Lute in Musicke, I. 187-189.
"Eger and Grime," III. [368].
"Eglamour of Artas," a Romance, III. [370].
Eleanor's (Queen) Confession, II. 164-168.
Elderton (William), Ballad-Writer, I. xxxvii.
—— his Ballad, King of Scots and Andrew Browne, II. 221-225.
Elizabeth (Queen), Sonnet by, II. 218-220.
—— Verses while Prisoner at Woodstock, II. 137-138.
Emanuel College, Cambridge, II. 348 (note).
Emarè, Romance of, III. [369].
Erasmus, Colloquy on Pilgrimages, II. 86.
Estmere (King), I. 85-98.
"Every Man," I. 433.
Ew-bughts, Marion, a Scottish Song, III. [74]-[75].
Excalibar, King Arthur's Sword, III. [32].
Fair Margaret and Sweet William, III. [124]-[127].
Fair Rosamond, II. 154-164.
Fairies Farewell, III. [207]-[211].
Fairy, Way to Get a, III. [210].
Fairy Queen, III. [204]-[207].
Fancy and Desire, by the Earl of Oxford, II. 185-187.
Farewell to Love, I. 310.
"Fit," meaning of a, I. xxiii.; II. 182.
"Florence (Le bone) of Rome," III. [373].
Folio MS. and the Reliques, I. lxxxi.-xci., 5-6.
Four Elements, Interlude of the, I. 441.
France's (King of) Daughter, III. [161]-[168].
Frantic Lady, II. 357, 358.
Friar of Orders Gray, I. 242-246.
Frolicksome Duke, or the Tinker's good Fortune, I. 238-242.
Funeral Garlands, III. [152] (note).
Gaberlunyie Man, II. 67-71.
Garlands of Ballads, I. 423.
Garlands (Funeral), III. [152] (note).
Gascoigne's Praise of the Fair Bridges, II. 150-154.
Gawain, the Duke and, III. [367].
—— and the Greene Knight, III. [367].
—— "Sir Gawan and Sir Galaron of Galloway," metrical Romance, III. [375].
—— "Gawan and Gologras," metrical Romance, III. [375].
—— Marriage of Sir Gawayne, III. [13]-[24].
—— —— Ancient Fragment from the folio MS. 323-330.
Gentle Herdsman, tell to me, II. 86-92.
Gentle River, Gentle River, translated by Percy, I. 331-338.
George (St. ), Birth of, III. [215]-[224].
—— and the Dragon, III. [224]-[232].
—— for England, the first part, III. [288]-[293].
—— —— the second part, by John Grubb, III. [293]-[308].
George Barnwell, III. [240]-[252].
Gernutus the Jew of Venice, I. 211-220.
Gil Morrice, III. [91]-[100].
—— Version from the folio MS. 100-103.
Gilderoy, I. 318-323.
Glasgerion, III. [45]-[49].
—— the Harper, I. 396.
Gleemen, I. 392.
Glover (R.), Admiral Hosier's Ghost, II. 367-371.
Good-Man, The Auld, III. [122]-[124].
Graham (David) of Fintray, II. 229.
Grainger (J.), Bryan and Pereene, I. 328-331.
Gramarye, on the word, I. 96.
"Green Knight," III. [367].
Greenham (Richard), II. 350 (note).
Grehme (Sir John), and Barbara Allan, III. [133]-[135].
Grubb (John), St. George for England, the second part, III. [293]-[308].
Guy of Gisborne, I. 102.
Guy (Sir), Legend of, III. [107]-[113].
—— Romance of, III. [364].
—— Two Poems on Guy of Warwick, III. [364].
Guy and Amarant, III. [114]-[121].
Guy and Colbronde, Romance of, III. [364].
Hamilton (W.), The Braes of Yarrow, II. 362-367.
Hardyknute, a Scottish Fragment, II. 105-121.
Harpalus, an Ancient English Pastoral, II. 75-79.
Harpers and Minstrels, I. 390.
Harrington, Witch of Wokey, I. 325-328.
Hawes (Stephen) Tower of Doctrine, I. 127-130.
Hawker (Rev. R. S.), Imitator of the Old Ballad, I. xlv.
Heir of Linne, II. 138-150.
—— Version from the folio MS. II. 147-150.
Henry II. and the Miller of Mansfield, III. [178]-[188].
Henryson (Robert) Robin and Makyne, II. 79-86.
Hey Downe, Dyttie to, III. [44]-[45].
"Hick Scorner," I. 435.
Hock Tuesday, Coventry Play of, I. 445.
Holy-land, As Ye Came from the, II. 101-105.
—— Version from the folio MS. II. 104-105.
Horne Childe, Romance of, III. [363].
Hosier's (Admiral) Ghost, II. 367-371.
Howleglas, Merye Jest of, I. 431.
Hue and Cry after Cupid, III. [159]-[161].
Hugh of Lincoln, Story of, I. 54.
Humbledon, Battle of, I. 35.
Ipomydon, a Romance, III. [371].
Ipotis, Poem of, III. [364].
Isabella's (Lady) Tragedy, III 155-158.
Isenbras (Sir), Romance of, III. [369].
Islington, III. [135].
James V. Gaberlunyie Man, II. 67-71.
James I. of England, Verses by, II. 300-302.
—— King of Scots and Andrew Browne, II. 221-225.
Jane Shore, II. 263-273.
Jealousy, Spanish Virgin, or Effects of, III. [255]-[259].
Jealousy Tyrant of the Mind, III. [260].
Jemmy Dawson, II. 371-374.
Jephthah, Judge of Israel, I. 182-185.
Jew's Daughter, I. 54-60.
Jews supposed to crucify Christian Children, I. 54.
John (King) and the Abbot of Canterbury, II. 303-312.
—— Version from the folio MS. II. 308-312.
John Anderson my Jo, II. 131-133.
"John the Reeve," referred to, II. 93, 179.
Johnson (Richard), Ballad-Writer, I. xxxix.
Jonson (Ben.) A Hue and Cry after Cupid, III. [159]-[161].
—— The Sweet Neglect, III. [169].
—— The Witches' Song, III. [196]-[199].
King (Francis), the Skipton Minstrel, I. xxiii.
King and Miller of Mansfield, III. [178]-[188].
King Arthur's Death, III. [27]-[35].
—— Version from the folio MS. III. [35]-[39].
King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid, I. 189-194.
King Estmere, I. 85-98.
King Leir and his Three Daughters, I. 231-237.
King Ryence's Challenge, III. [24]-[27].
King of France's Daughter, III. [161]-[168].
King of Scots, Murder of the, II. 213-218.
King of Scots and Andrew Browne, II. 221-225.
"King of Tars," III. [374].
Knight and Shepherd's Daughter, III. [76]-[80].
"Knight of Courtesy and the Lady of Faguel," III. [372].
Lady Distracted with Love, II. 354, 355.
Lady turned Serving-Man, III. [86]-[90].
Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament, II. 209-213.
Lady Isabella's Tragedy, III. [155]-[158].
Lady's Fall, III. [139]-[145].
Laing's (David) Opinion on the Authenticity of Sir Patrick Spence, I. xlix.
Lambewell (Sir), Romance of, III. [368].
Lancelot (Sir) du Lake, I. 204-209.
Langland's Visions of Pierce Plowman, II. 377-394.
Launfal (Sir), a Romance, III. [368].
"Lay of Erie of Thoulouse," III. [372].
Legend of King Arthur, III. [39]-[43].
Legend of Sir Guy, III. [107]-[113].
Legh (Sir Urias), II. 247.
Leir (King) and his Three Daughters, I. 231-237.
Levison (Sir Richard), II. 247.
Libius Disconius, analysis of the Romance of, III. [358], [366].
Lilli Burlero, II. 358-362.
Lilly (John), Cupid and Campaspe, III. [85]-[86].
Little John Nobody, II. 133-137.
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, III. [68]-[74].
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, III. [234]-[238].
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor, III. [82]-[85].
Love will find out a Way, III. [232]-[234].
Lovelace (Richard), To Althea from Prison, II. 321-323.
—— To Lucasta on Going to the Wars, III. [264]-[265].
Lover (A) of Late, III. [177]-[178].
Loyalty Confined, II. 326-329.
Lucasta (To) on Going to the Wars, III. [264]-[265].
Lucy and Colin, III. [312]-[315].
Lunatic Lover, II. 351-353.
Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman, a Ballad of, II. 125-130.
Lusty Juventus, Interlude of, I. 442.
Lye (The), by Sir Walter Raleigh, II. 297-300.
Mad Songs—
1. Old Tom of Bedlam, II. 344-347.
2. The Distracted Puritan, II. 347-351.
3. The Lunatic Lover, II. 351-353.
4. The Lady Distracted with Love, II. 354-355.
5. The Distracted Lover, II. 355-357.
6. The Frantic Lady, II. 357-358.
Mahound, on the word, I. 97.
Maid Marian, III. [186].
Maitland MS. I. lxii.
Mallet (D.), Margaret's Ghost, III. [308]-[312].
MS. (Folio) and the Reliques, I. lxxxi.-xci, 5-6.
Margaret (Fair) and Sweet William, III. [124]-[127].
Margaret's Ghost, III. [308]-[312].
Marlowe's (C.), Passionate Shepherd to his Love, I. 220-224.
Marriage of Sir Gawayne, III. [13]-[24].
—— Ancient Fragment from the folio MS. III. [323]-[330].
Mary Ambree, II. 231-237.
—— Version from folio MS. II. 235-237.
"Merchant of Venice," Bond-Story in, I. 211.
Merline, Romance of, III. [369].
"Milky Way," Names of, II. 88.
Miller of Mansfield, King and, III. [178]-[188].
Minstrels, I. xiii.-xxiv.
—— Essay on the Ancient, in England, I. 343-381.
—— —— Notes on, I. 382-430.
Mirrour for Magistrates, I. 444.
Montfort (Simon de), Earl of Leicester, II. 3.
More of More-Hall, III. [283].
Morrice (Gil), III. [91]-[100].
—— Version from the folio MS. III. [100]-[103].
Morte Arthure, III. [366].
Munday (Anthony), Ballad-Writer, I. xxxix.
Murder of the King of Scots, II. 213-218.
Murray, The Bonny Earl of, II. 226-228.
Musgrave (Little) and Lady Barnard, III. [68]-[74].
My Mind to me a Kingdom is, I. 294-298.
"New (The) Custom," I. 444.
Northumberland (Henry, 4th Earl of), Elegy on, by Skelton, I. 117-126.
Northumberland (Thomas, 7th Earl of), I. 266.
Northumberland betrayed by Douglas, I. 279-288.
—— Version from the folio MS. I. 289-294.
Northumberland (Elizabeth Duchess of), Dedications to, I. 1-3.
Norton (Richard) and his Sons, I. 267, 270.
Not-Browne Mayd, II. 31-47.
O Nancy wilt thou go with me, I. lxxii.
"Octavian Imperator," a Romance, III. [370].
Old and Young Courtier, II. 314-318.
Old Robin of Portingale, III. [50]-[54].
—— Version from the folio MS. III. [55]-[58].
Old Tom of Bedlam, II. 344-347.
Otterbourne, The Battle of, I. 35-54.
"Otuel, a Knight," III. [374].
"Owain Myles," III. [370].
Oxford (Edward Vere, Earl of), Fancy and Desire, II. 185-187.
Parker (Martin), Royalist Ballad-Writer, I. xl.
Passionate Shepherd to his Love, I. 220-224.
Patient Countess, I. 298-304.
Penelope, Constant, III. 261-264.
Pepperden, Battle of, I. 252.
Percy (Bishop Thomas), Life of, I. lxxi.-lxxx.
—— Portraits of, I. lxxx.
—— Friar of Orders Gray, I. 242-246.
Perkins (William), II. 350 (note).
Phillida and Corydon, III. [66]-[68].
Pierce Plowman's Visions, alliterative Metre without Rhyme in, II. 377-394.
Pipers (Town) of Scotland, I. xx.
Plain Truth and Blind Ignorance, II. 285-290.
Politick Maid, II. 337.
Popham (Sir John), II. 247.
Portugal, Voyage to, 1588, III. [176].
Prior's Henry and Emma, II. 31.
Pucke, alias Hobgoblin, III. [199].
Puritan, the Distracted, II. 347-351.
Queen Dido, III. [191]-[196].
Rahere, the King's Minstrel, I. 406.
Raleigh (Sir Walter), The Lye, II. 297-300.
—— The Nymph's Reply, I. 233-224.
"Reliques," first publication of the, I. lxxv., lxxxix.
—— Sources of the, I. lxxxi.-xci.
Rembrun, Romance of, III. [365].
"Richard Cure de Lyon, Historye of," III. [356], [372].
Richard of Almaigne, II. 3-10.
Rising in the North, I. 266-274.
—— Version from the folio MS. I. 274-278.
Risp, or Tirling-pin, III. [47] (note).
Ritson's Attack upon Percy, I. xiv.
Rivers (Earl of), Balet, II. 45-49.
"Robert, Kynge of Cysill," III. [373].
Robin (Old) of Portingale, III. [50]-[54].
—— Version from the folio MS. III. [55]-[58].
Robin and Makyne, an Ancient Scottish Pastoral, II. 79-86.
Robin Good-Fellow, III. [199]-[204].
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, I. 102-116.
Robin Redbreast, popular belief relating to, III. [171]-[176].
Robyn (A), jolly Robyn, I. 185-187.
Rolricht Stones, III. [302].
Romances, on the Ancient Metrical, III. [339]-[376].
Rondeau or Roundel, II. 14.
Rosamond (Fair), II. 154-164.
Roxburghe Ballads, I. lxiii.
Ryence's (King) Challenge, III. [24]-[27].
Sale of Rebellious Household-Stuff, II. 332-336.
Sandes (Lady), II. 150.
Scott (Sir Walter) on the Controversy between Percy and Ritson, I. xiv.
"Scottish Feilde," an alliterative Poem, II. 384.
"Sege of Jerusalem," an alliterative Poem, II. 381; III. [369].
Shakespeare, Ballads that illustrate, I. 151-246.
—— Take those Lips away, I. 230.
—— Youth and Age, I. 237-238.
Sheale (Richard), the Preserver of Chevy Chase, I. xviii. 19.
Shenstone (W.), Jemmy Dawson, II. 371-374.
Shepherd's Address to his Muse, III. [80]-[81].
Shepherd's Resolution, III. [188]-[191].
Shirley (J.), Death's Final Conquest, I. 264-265.
—— Victorious Men of Earth, II. 242.
Shore (Jane), II. 263-273.
Sir, the title applied to Priests, I. 116.
Sir Aldingar, II. 54-67.
—— Version from the folio MS. II. 61-67.
Sir Andrew Barton, II. 188-208.
—— Version from the folio MS. II. 201-208.
Sir Cauline, I. 61-81.
—— Copy from the folio MS. I. 76-81.
Sir Degree, Degare or Degore, a Romance, III. [371].
Sir Gawan and Sir Galaron of Galloway, metrical Romance, III. [375].
Sir Isenbras, Romance of, III. [369].
Sir John Grehme and Barbara Allan, III. [133]-[135].
Sir John Suckling's Campaigne, II. 318-321.
Sir Lancelot du Lake, I. 204-209.
Sir Patrick Spence, I. 98-102.
—— Authenticity of, I. xlviii.
Skeat (Rev. W. W.) on the Essay on Alliterative Metre, II. 394.
Skelton's (John) Elegy on Henry, fourth Earl of Northumberland, I. 117-126.
Soldan or Sowdan, on the words, I. 98.
Song to the Lute in Musicke, I. 187-189.
Sonnet by Queen Elizabeth, II. 218-220.
Soules (The) Errand, II. 297-300.
Spanish Ballads, I. 331.
Spanish Lady's Love, II. 247-251.
Spanish Virgin, or Effects of Jealousy, III. [255]-[259].
Squyr of Lowe Degre, a Romance, III. [372].
Stage, on the Origin of the English, I. 431-458.
Stedfast Shepherd, III. [253]-[255].
Sturdy Rock, II. 169-170.
Suckling (Sir John), Why so Pale, II. 343-344.
—— Sir John Suckling's Campaigne, II. 318-321.
Surtees (Robert), Forger of Old Ballads, I. xlvii.
Susanna, Ballad of Constant, I. 209.
Sweet Neglect, III. [169].
Sweet William, Fair Margaret and, III. [124]-[127].
Sweet William's Ghost, III. [130]-[133].
Syr Triamore, a Romance, III. [371].
Taillefer the Minstrel, I. xvi. 403.
Take those Lips away, I. 230.
Take thy old Cloak about thee, I. 195-198.
"Taming of the Shrew," Story of the induction to, I. 238.
Tearne-Wadling no longer a lake, III. [14] (note).
Termagaunt, on the word, I. 96.
Thomas (Lord) and Fair Annet, III. [234]-[238].
Thomas (Lord) and Fair Ellinor, III. [82]-[85].
Thoms (W. J.), Note on the Reliques, I. lxxxviii.
Thorn (M.), Sturdy Rock, II. 169-170.
"Thoulouse, Lay of Erle of," III. [372].
Tickell (Thomas), Lucy and Colin, III. [312]-[315].
Tirling Pin or Risp, III. [47] (note).
Titus Andronicus's Complaint, I. 224-229.
Tom (Old) of Bedlam, II. 344-347.
Tottenham, Turnament of, II. 17-28.
Tower of Doctrine, by Stephen Hawes, I. 127-130.
Triamore (Syr), a Romance, III. [371].
Turke and Gawain, III. [367].
Turnament of Tottenham, II. 17-28.
Turnewathelan, III. [375].
Tutbury Court of Minstrels, I. 368.
Ulysses and the Syren, by S. Daniel, I. 311-314.
Unfading Beauty, III. [239].
Valentine and Ursine, III. [265]-[279].
Vaux (Thomas, Lord), Cupid's Assault, II. 50-53.
—— The Aged Lover renounceth Love, I. 179-182.
Verses by K. James I., II. 300-302.
Verses by K. Charles I., II. 329-332.
Victorious Men of Earth, II. 242.
Waits attached to Corporate Towns, I. xvi.
Walsingham, Shrine of the Virgin at, II. 86, 101.
Wandering Jew, II. 291-296.
Wantley, Dragon of, III. [279]-[288].
Wanton Wife of Bath, III. [333]-[338].
Waly Waly, Love be Bonny, III. [145]-[148].
Wardlaw (Lady), Imitator of the Old Ballad, I. xliv., xlix.
—— Hardyknute, II. 105-121.
Warner (W.), Argentile and Curan, II. 252-262.
—— The Patient Countess, I. 298-304.
Waters (Child), III. [58]-[65].
Waters (Young), II. 228-231.
Westmorland (Earl of), I. 266.
Wharncliffe Lodge and Wood, III. [281].
Wharton (Thomas, Marquis of), Lilli Burlero, II. 358-362.
Why so Pale, by Sir John Suckling, II. 343-344.
Wife (Wanton) of Bath, III. [333]-[338].
William (St.) of Norwich, I. 56.
William of Cloudesley, I. 153.
William (Sweet), Fair Margaret and, III. [124]-[127].
William's (Sweet) Ghost, III. [130]-[133].
William and Margaret, by D. Mallet, III. [308]-[312].
Willoughbey (Brave Lord), II. 238-241.
Willow, Willow, Willow, I. 199-203.
Willow Tree, a Pastoral Dialogue, III. [137]-[139].
Winifreda, I. 323-325.
Winning of Cales, II. 243-246.
Witch of Wokey, by Dr. Harrington, I. 325-328.
Witches' Song, III. [196]-[199].
Wither (George), Shepherd's Resolution, III. [188]-[191].
—— The Stedfast Shepherd, III. [253]-[255].
Wokey-hole in Somersetshire, I. 325.
Wortley (Sir Thomas), III. [282].
Wotton (Sir H.), Character of a Happy Life, I. 317-318.
—— You Meaner Beauties, II. 312-314.
Yarrow, The Braes of, II. 362-367.
You Meaner Beauties, II. 312-314.
Young Waters, II. 228-231.
Youth and Age, I. 237-238.
Ypotis, Poem of, III. [364].

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