The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)

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laa, law.

lachters, lauchters, IV, 166, 14: locks.

lack, lake, adj.=laigh, low, humble, in lack o luve, II, 376, 24, 27, 30. so lack a knight as bid her ride, II, 97, 10. thought his father lack to sair, II, 408, 1 (lake, V, [235] b, 1; cf. thought father’s service mean, II, 178, 2); V, [272] b, 8, 10: of mean position.

lack, lake, n. (think, hae, lack), reproach, discredit, IV, 15, 16; 518, 8. woman, lack o our kin, IV, 325, 13. had ye nae lack (reproach or fault), IV, 281, 3. what other ladies would think lack, II, 159, 22 (but here lack may=laigh, and mean beneath them, as in II, 97, 10). tooke a lake, III, 419, 2: incurred a reproach or blame? of his friends he had no lack, IV, 11, 18: corrupted from, of him his friends they had no lack (or the like). See lauch.

lad, in surgeon-lad, IV, 484, after 25: man. lad nor lown, IV, 304, 8, 9: should probably read, laird.

lad-bairn, II, 299, 12, 21; III, 392, 7; 395, L 1, 5; IV, 510, V 3: boy.

lad, pret. of lead, III, 75, 388.

lade, led, taken.

lader, V, [265] b, 20: leather.

laid, III, 35, 15: laid a plan. laid about, III, 329, 1: invested.

laid, laid her bye, V, [169], 6: lay down by her.

laidler, II, 503 f., 10, 11, etc.: corruptly for laidley (as in 7).

laidley, laily, laylë, layely, etc. (A. S., láðlíc), I, 312, 8, 13; 348, 14, 20; II, 503 f., 7, 32, 35; V, [214] f., 2, 3, 5, etc.: loathly, loathsome.

laigh, II, 188, 3; III, 384, 2; 397, A b 1; IV, 200, 9; 268, 21; V, [236], 11: low, mean. oer laigh, III, 480, 12: too low, too short. See lack.

laigh, leugh, n., III, 162, 49: low ground. III, 489, 10: lower part; so, leugh, 487, 6, 14, 16.

laily, laylë, layly, layelly, V, [214] f. See laidley.

lain, laine, layne, leane, lene, len (Icel. leyna), III, 332, 7; IV, 7 f., 30, 47; V, [250] f., 27, 40: conceal.

lain, alone. See lane.

laine, p. p., III, 401, 16: laid.

lair, lear (A. S., lár), II, 175, 16; 305, 15: instruction. unco lair, to learn, get: II, 118, 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III, 385, 1; IV, 411, 1; unco lear, IV, 467, 1: strange lesson, applied to one who is to have an extraordinary experience; cf. English lair, IV, 466, 1. See lear.

lair, lear, II, 311, 1: lying-in.

laird, a landholder, under the degree of knight; the proprietor of a house, or of more houses than one. Jamieson.

lairy, IV, 22, 10: miry, boggy.

laith, loath. See leath.

lake, n., III, 419, 2; V, [235] b, 1; [272] b, 8, 10. See lack.

lake, I, 254, 8: pit, cavity. See laigh, n.

lake, V, [235] b, 1; [272], 8, 10=laigh, of mean position. See lack, adj.

lake-wake, leak-wake, lyke-wake, II, 311, 19: watching of a dead body.

lamar, lamer, lammer, II, 131, 6; 323, 24; IV, 203, 5; 204, 14: amber.

lambes woole, V, [85], 18: pulp of roasted apples mixed with ale.

lammas beds, II, 96, J 4, in virtue leave your: corrupt. See note, II, 100 b. Dr Davidson, correcting by sound, would read, never to leave. For lammas beds we may perhaps read, families. Cf. 87, B 1, that ye dinna leave your father’s house.

lammer, lamer, lamar, amber. See lamar.

land, V, [128], 29: country (opposed to town).

land-lieutenant, IV, 517, 17. lord lieutenant, III, 492 f., 7, 11, 17. lieutenant, III, 488, 32, 33, 35, 37. See next word.

land-serg(e)ant, III, 481, 33; 482, 27; IV, 2, 9, 14: officer of the gendarmerie of the Borders, called land-lieutenant, IV, 517, 17.

landart, V, [106], E 1; 111, 1: belonging to the country, rural.

landen, II, 29, 17: landing.

landen span, III, 511, 16, 18: corrupted from London band, or the like.

landsman, III, 489, 44: land owner.

lane, III, 357, 51: lane, as where poor men live? (Rhymed with aye, and perhaps corrupt. 361, C 51, lawne.)

lane, lain, leen, lean, lone, alane, alone, annexed to the dative or genitive of the personal pronoun (as in Old Eng. him ane, hire ane), my, mine, thy, our, your, her, his, him, its: I alone, by myself, etc. my lane, I, 79, 22. thy lane, IV, 197, 8. our lane, I, 72, 20. your lane, II, 69, 1. your lone, IV, 195, 16. her lane, lean, I, 350, 10; IV, 456, 1. his lane, lean, IV, 227, 6; 345, 5. him lane, leen, I, 368, 26, 28; II, 90, 18. their lane, I, 254, C 1. its lone, I, 132, J 4; II, 308, 3. its leen, IV, 418, 1. it lane, II, 82, J; 307, 22; III, 388, 5. me ane, I, 333, 1. by my lane, I, 330, B 1. mine alone, alane, I, 332, E 1, F 1; III, 489, 1. him alone, III, 159, 2; cf. IV, 464, 1.

lane, IV, 281, 2: misprint for bane.

lang, at lang, IV, 318, F 9: at length.

lang kell, V, [110], 9, 10: coleworts not cut up and mashed. “lang kail

langin, she’s gane langin hame, IV, 198 a, 7: perhaps simply longing, languishing; lingering would be more appropriate if the interpretation were justifiable.

lang-sought, V, [35], B 5: been long (and fruitlessly) seeking for some object (if the reading is right), indicating a hopeless passion.

lap, grip her in his lap, II, 325, 18: (possibly) embrace, clutch.

lap, lappe, III, 59, 70; 65, 194; 353, 12; 430 f., 15, 17: wrap, roll.

lap, pret. of loup, leap, I, 330, A 5, 7, B 5; 331, C 5, 7; III, 270, 1; V, [228], 16. lap him, III, 266, 2: the old construction of dative of the subject after a verb of motion.

lappen, p. p. of loup, leap.

lapperin, III, 395, L 4; IV, 224, 23: clotting.

lappin, IV, 510, V 3: covering; probably corrupted from lapperin of L 4, clotting.

lard, leard, V, [36], B 8, 9: laird.

lass-bairn, lassie-bairn, I, 350, 20; II, 301, 10, 11; IV, 418, 5: girl.

lat, I, 310, 8; 351, 37: let.

lat down, III, 281, 2, 5, 6: give over, discontinue.

late, III, 164, b 51: let, hindrance.

late, pret. of let, allow, V, [256], 13.

latten, p. p. of let, II, 189, 26; IV, 493 f., 7, 28, 31 (left).

lau, low.

lauch, n., II, 20, 4; 385, 6; 390, 7; IV, 259, 9: laugh. IV, 327, 12: perhaps laughing-stock; but cf. lack, 325, 13, reproach.

lauch, lawhe, v., IV, 121, G 2; V, [80], 48: laugh. pret. laugh, laughe, leuch, leugh, luke, lough, low, lowe, lowhe, laucht, lought.

laucht, pret. of laugh, II, 106, 14.

lauchter, IV, 385, 6: laugh.

lauchters, I, 74, 68, 72; 79, 25: locks.

lauchty, V, [213] a, No 33, 10: the reading in Sharpe’s Ballad Book corresponding to tauchy, I, 302, A 10. In the copy of Sharpe used (a presentation copy), a line is drawn through the l, indicating, probably, the editor’s intention to emend to tauchty or tauchy.

laue, law.

laugh, laughe, pret. of laugh, II, 418, 34; 420, 59; III, 287, 59.

launde, lawnde, III, 27, 105; 33, 105: plain ground in a forest; “a small park within a forest, enclosed in order to take the deer more readily, or to produce fatter venison by confining them for a time.”

launsgay, III, 63, 134: a kind of lance, javelin (compound of lance and the Arabic zagaye).

lave, leve, II, 78, 11; III, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 220, 3; 428, 6; 517, 20: rest, remainder.

lauede ablode, I, 244, 9; V, [288], 16: swam in blood.

lav(e)rock, I, 201, 3; 202, 3; 205, F 4; IV, 266, 16: lark.

law, I, 209 a: faith, creed.

law, Castle-law, II, 149, 4, 7; Biddess-law, III, 460, 29: hill (A. S. hlǽw).

lawhe, V, [80], 48: laugh. pret. lowhe.

lawin(g), III, 472, 7; IV, 151 f., A 2-4, B 5, 9, 10, etc.; 157, 5, 6: tavern-reckoning.

lawing, V, [266], 8: lying (reclining).

lawnde. See launde.

lax, IV, 233, 18: relief.

lay, II, 59, 25: law, faith.

lay, II, 483, 1; IV, 203 f., 6, 7, 23; V, [260], 10, 11: land not under cultivation, grass, sward. lays, IV, 224, 23: fields, plains, ground.

lay, v., lie.

lay, I, 399 a, E 11: seems to be nonsense; probably we should read gray, as in No 248, IV, 389 f.

lay by, IV, 519, 5, 7, 11; 520, 5, 10 (lay’d==lay it): lay aside, let be, cease. lay bay, V, [275] b, 3: put aside or behind, outsail.

layelly, loathsome. See laidley.

laying, IV, 174, 1: lawing, reckoning.

lay-land, II, 59, 23: (Old Eng. leyland) lea land, untilled land; simply plain, ground.

laylë, loathsome. See laidley.

layn (withouten), III, 97, 17; 100, 81: lie (truly).

layne (Icel. leyna), IV, 7 f., 30, 47: conceal. See lain.

layne, v. (A. S. légnian), III, 297, 35, 40: lie.

layne, v., II, 87, 33: lean.

lazar, -er, II, 44-46, 4, 5, 9, 11, etc.: leper.

lea, lee, lie, loe, loi, loie, loy, loo, low, lue, v., I, 438, 10; II, 260, 4; 408, 23; 417, 2; 419, 52; V, [116], 2, 3; [117], 3; [220], 6; [221], 9; [242], 14; [260], 13; [272] b, 3, 7, 11; [277] f., 1, 4, 23, 31: love.

lea, lee, lie, mentiri.

lea, III, 457, A 2; IV, 100, 4; 102, L 6; 263, 2: leave. (so leave, IV, 94, 15, is to be sounded.)

lea, n. See lee.

lea, lee, lie lea, lie lee: IV, 26, 5; 350, B b after 2; 520, 2: untilled. lay lee, V, [189] b: lay waste.

leace, withouten leace, III, 27, 108, 115: falsehood.

lead, III, 460, 26: lead their horses?

lead, V, [36], 11; [117], 14; [221], 18; [268], 18: led.

lead, laid.

lead(e), I, 232, 9; V, [53], 103: vat, boiler.

leaf, loaf.

leaf, gae out under the leaf, IV, 379, 6: luff, loof, after part of a ship’s bow; or here, as opposed to lee, the weather side. See lowe.

leak, adj., V, [111], 20; [224], 26: like.

leak, v., V, [242], 15: like.

leak, II, 193, 28; V, [224], 26; [228], 28:==lyke, for lyke-wake, watching of a dead body.

leak-wake, V, [228], 13, 14, 23, 24: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. See lake-wake, lyke-wake.

leal, leel, leil, liel, III, 464, 12: loyal, faithful, true. I, 70, 24; 73, 34, 45, 46; II, 73, 19; III, 437, 36; IV, 212, 1; 240, 13; 283, 11; 289, 11: virginal, chaste, expers viri; so, lealest, leelest, I, 220, A 3; 221, D 6. III, 464, 3; 465, 30: veracious. V, [115], 5: upright, honest. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully.

lea-lang, I, 352, 7. See lee, adj.

leall, V, [248], 4: perhaps only faithful; but possibly lief, lee (dear), leman, the final l being caught from leman.

leam, leem, v., II, 410, 24: gleam.

lean, leen, his, him, IV, 345, I 5: lane, lone. See lane.

lean, leane, lene, len, v., II, 403, 8 (see len); III, 330, 19; 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; IV, 277, 15, 17; V, [36], B 8, 9: conceal. II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or lie. See lain, to conceal.

leap, pret. of leap, loup, V, [227], 17. See leepe.

lear, II, 176, C 1, 2: instruction. IV, 413, 2; 414, 1; 467, 1: learning. III, 473, 24: information. See lair.

lear, II, 313, 25: apparently meant for lair, bed; but rhymed with white, and the reading should undoubtedly be lyke, that is, lyke-wake, as in II, 117, 16.

leard, laird. See lard.

lease==leash, II, 265, 19: a thong or string (as if for bringing back the deer he should kill?). I, 211, 20: a leash (of hounds), pack. III, 216, 31: a leash (of bucks), three.

leasing(e), leasynge, lesynge, leesin, I, 412, 26; III, 28, 132, 134; 359, 86; IV, 465, 22: falsehood.

leath, laith, III, 162, 54; IV, 479, 4; V, [216], 6: loath.

leaugh, leugh, lewgh, leiugh, lieugh, III, 465 f., 33, 39, 42, 49; 487, 6, 14, 16 (see laigh): low.

leave, gie them a’ thier leave, I, 431, D 13, E 10: take leave of them all.

leave==leeve, dear, II, 414, 24. leaver, III, 362, 82.

leave (to weepe), IV, 140, 10: cease.

leave, live.

lede, III, 74, 368: leading, conduct.

ledës-man, lodesman, III, 74, 369; 88, 369: guide.

ledyt, I, 242, 11, old imperative plural: lead.

lee, lea, I, 100, 4; III, 171, 9; 174, 20: untilled ground, grass land, open plain, ground.

lee, lie lee, IV, 26, 5: untilled. lay lee, V, [189] b, lay waste.

lee, adj., the (this, a) lee-lang, lief-lang day, I, 100, 11, 12; 440, 3; II, 96, I 2: (Old Eng. the leevë longë day) livelong, from A. S. léof, used like German lieb in der liebe lange tag, die liebe lange nacht. So lee, le, lei, ley, licht o the moon, I, 389, 5; II, 188 f., 4, 14, 35; 195, 37; 233, F 1; 374, B 3; 413, 7, as in die liebe sonne, der liebe mond, regen, wind, and other formulas in great variety. (lee licht o the moon is replaced, II, 103 f., 10, 12; 106, 10, by hie light, ae light.)

lee, v., lie, mentiri.

lee, II, 256, K 5: live.

lee, v., love. See lea, love.

leech, IV, 426, 11: meant for leesh, and so spelt in another copy.

leed, lied (A. S. lǽden), I, 207, 18; 430, 5, 9; II, 366, 19; IV, 379, 14: talk.

leed (A. S. léod), III, 355, 3: man. pl. leeds, 6: people.

leed, laid.

leed, n., II, 366, 37: lead.

leedginge, II, 58, 7: leeching, doctoring.

leeft, pret., IV, 220, 1: lived.

leel, loyal, faithful, etc. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully. See leal.

lee-lang. See lee.

leemin, II, 361, 33: gleaming.

leems, IV, 460 a, No 47: gleams; but langs, belongs, is the word required; cf. I, 430, 6.

leen, lean, her, your leen, him leen, IV, 291 b; 345, 9; V, [171], 2, 6: lone. See lane.

leepe, leap, pret. of leap, loup, II, 445, 76; V, [227], 17.

lees, leeze, me on thee, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 15: blessings on, commend me to. (lees me, originally leeve is me, dear is to me, my delight is.)

leese, III, 37, 75; 189, 4; 228, 17; 374, 3: lose.

leesin, IV, 465, 22: a lie. See leasing(e).

leesome, I, 182-3; IV, 432, 2; 455, 18; V, [178], 1: lovely, pleasing, leesome blew the wind, IV, 410, 10: pleasantly.

leeve, leve, leave, lefe, lieve, live, adj., II, 305, 13; 414, 24; V, [227], 13: lovely, dear, pleasant; comp. leifer, leuer, I, 328, 43; III, 24, 35; 189, A 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, [83], 51. epithet of London, II, 265, 5, 12; [440], 14; III, 276, 1; 284, 6, 7; 330, 16; 406, 35; V, [227], 8. So, lovely London, III, 352, 1; 355, 7. lilly Londeen, IV, 485, 19. whether he were loth or lefe, III, 67, 225 (properly, him were): disagreeable or agreeable; here, unwilling or willing. For had lever see leuer.

leeve, III, 105, 15: believe.

leeve, III, 287, 62: grant.

leeze. See lees.

lefe, III, 28, 128: pleasing, agreeable. III, 67, 225: pleased. See leefe.

leffe (A. S. lǽfan), wolde not leffe beheynde, III, 112, 60: remain.

leg, V, [126] f., 1, 2, 5, etc.: highwayman.

legg, V, [275], 7: league.

leguays, lequays, V, [217], 12, 13: likewise.

lei, ley, lei light o the moon, II, 188 f., 4, 14, 35; 195, 37. See lee, adj.

leifer, leifar, III, 436 f., 10, 25; IV, 196, 13: rather. See leeve.

leil. See leal.

leiugh, low. See leaugh.

leman, lemman, Old Eng. leofman, beloved (of both sexes). I, 232, 6, 7; 314, 2-4, 6; II, 271, 18; 273, 24, 400, 6; IV, 151, B 1, 2; 154, 2, 3; V, [283], 3: lover, paramour. I, 72, 30, 32; 117, 8; 254, 10; II, 73, 27, 28; 81, 40; 289, B 2, 3; V, [248], 4; [283], 12: love, mistress, loose woman.

lemanless, III, 434, 28: without lovers.

lemanry, V, [25], 4: illicit love.

len, v., lean. See lend.

len, lene, III, 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; neither lee nor len, IV, 277, 15, 17: conceal. II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or lie. that cannot longer len, II, 403, 8: remain concealed (but the reading should probably be, I cannot). See lain, lean.

len, lene, III, 79, 40, 81; V, [283], 14: lend, give, grant.

lend, II, 229, 5, 8; III, 63 f., 153, 165; 82, 76; 85, 76; V, [49], 21: grant, give.

lend, n., II, 185, 38: loan.

lend, I, 207, 19, lend ye till your pike-staff: we should no doubt read len==lean. lent. I, 223, I 4: leaned.

lende, III, 75, 395: dwell.

lene, conceal. See len.

lenger, lengre, III, 61, 105; 73, 341; 78, 443: longer.

lenght, III, 478, 17: length.

length, this length, IV, 271, A 4: for so long.

lent, pret., I, 223, I 4: leaned.

lequays, likewise. See leguays.

lere (A. S. hléor), III, 57, 28: cheek, face.

lere, III, 57, 16; 77, 426: learn.

lese, leese, III, 59, 56: lose.

less (age), IV, 64 a: minor.

less o him, I, 332, G 1: smaller of him, than him.

lesse, III, 296, 25: false, falsehood.

lest, II, 81, 45 (reading in earlier MS. for rest): last.

lesynge, falsehood. See leasing(e).

let, lat (A. S. lǽtan), allow, leave. II, 54, 48; 265, 8, 15, 24; III, 58, 38: omit, fail. pret. late, loot, lute, lett. p. p. latten, letten, lotten, looten, loot (?).

let, lette (A. S. lettan), I, 334, 8; III, 110, 22, 23; 128, 75; 307, 2: hinder.

letten, p. p. of let, I, 87, 43; 452, 6: allowed, left.

letters, letturs, III, 99, 55 (the kyng did hit vnfold); III, 297, 36: letter.

leuch, luke, pret. of laugh, II, 30, K 1; 81, 33; 366, 23; IV, 272, 9.

leugh, n., lower part. See laugh.

leugh, pret. of laugh, I, 388, A 7; II, 134, 21; III, 69, 273; 467, 60; 490, 17.

leugh, leaugh, lewgh, etc., IV, 465, 34, 38; 484 f., 8, 10: low.

leutye, lewtë, III, 64, 154, 169: loyalty, faith.

leuve, I, 17, 14: palm of the hand. See loof.

leve, lave, m., II, 75, 20: rest.

leue, v., III, 61, 112; 79, 76: permit, grant.

levedys, I, 334, 9: ladies.

leven, I, 324, 13; 325, 12: lawn, glade, open ground in a forest. See launde.

leuer, leifer, pleasanter, preferable, rather. had leuer, III, 24, 35; 189, A 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, [83], 51. See leeve.

lewde (lye), III, 171, 8: base, vile.

lewgh, low. See leaugh.

lewte. See leutye.

ley, lea, lee, III, 109, 4; for a’ his father’s leys, II, 333, 11; 334, M 4; riding the leys, IV, 137, 34: land not under cultivation, simply land, plain, field. lands and ley, V, [157], 2: arable land and pasture; a common phrase in Scots conveyancing, “all and whole the lands and leas.”

ley-land, I, 15, 11; 16, B 11: land lying lea, not under cultivation. See lay-land.

ley licht. See lei, lee.

leyngger, V, [80], 37: longer.

leyt, V, [80], 37: lighted.

leythe, III, 112, 62: light.

liag, V, [237], 5: leg.

libertie, lying at, II, 464, 11: possessed in one’s own right, unencumbered.

liberty, lybertye, place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: where one can fight without fear of interruption?

liberty-wife, II, 291, 2: mistress.

licence, V, [155], C 3, make their licence free: pay the licence of an inn-keeper.

licht, I, 146, 19, 20: alight. lichted, lichtit, II, 92, 16; IV, 195, D 2; 337 b, g after 20.

lichter, I, 21 b, 8; II, 105, 10: delivered. See lighter.

lichtlie, lichtly, lightly, IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 337 a, g 16: make light of, treat, or speak of, with disrespect.

lick, II, 470, 45: gratuity (of meal from the miller).

lick, III, 163, 87: take for one’s self; cf. II, 470, 45.

lidder, lither, III, 464, 1: lazy. as adv., 467, b 1: excessively. (A. S. lýðre, bad.)

lie, ly, lye, I, 103, 10; III, 123, 5; 432, 17; V, [191], 5: reside, live.

lie, lee, lea, love. See lea.

lie, III, 301, E: lea.

lie, thou lie, IV, 197, 17: for thou liest, ye lie.

lied (A. S. lǽden), I, 430, 5, 9: language, talk. See leed.

lied, pret., V, [220], 6: loved.

lief-lang. See lee-lang, under lee.

liel, I, 70, 24: chaste. See leal.

lien, p. p., II, 135, 32: lain. she’s nouther pin’d nor lien, IV, 484, after 25: has not been lying bed-rid, does not look like one who has long been confined to bed.

lierachie, III, 319, 20: hubbub. “leerach==the bottom of a dung-pit after the dung has been removed, but left in a filthy state. The word is used to signify anything in a disordered state. Hence, confusion, hubbub.” Rev. Walter Gregor.

lieugh, low. See leaugh.

lieve, II, 345, 34: dear. See leeve.

life, leaf.

life, man of life, II, 244, 10: man alive (Chaucer’s lives man).

lift, I, 370, 16; 440, 18; II, 26, 14: air, sky.

lift, V, [82], 37: lifted.

lig, ligg, ligge, lygge, imperat., I, 328, 36; II, 437, 72; 439, 4, 7; IV, 396, 6; inf., III, 212, 17: lay.

lig, ligge, lygge, I, 328, 38-41; II, 244, 6, 7: lie.

light, pret., II, 46, 38; 54, 49; V, [53], 93: lighted, alighted. See lyght.

light, III, 156, 1: corruption of lith, listen.

lighter, of a bairn, I, 86 f., 7, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25, 43; II, 98, 35; 108, 12; 109, 11; 115, 23; 117, 10, 11; 118, 13; 123, 25, 26: delivered. (Icel. verða léttari, Old Eng. to lighten.) lighter a dochter, II, 132, 15: ellipsis of of. See lichter.

lightly, lightlie, lyghtly(e), III, 23 ff., 11, 41, 45, 61, V, [82], 36: quickly. III, 35, 35: easily. V, [84], 3: for slight reason.

lightly, lichtlie, -ly, III, 472, 10; IV, 351, 2, 9: treat with disrespect. IV, 92, 2: slight (in love). IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 103, M 1; IV, 337 a, g 16: speak disparagingly of.

like, liken, like to be dead (dee), II, 58, 7; 372, 24; III, 386, 7; 392, 6; 394, J 4; 395, M 2 (cf. L 2): in a condition, in a fair way, or likely. liker, II, 97, 22: more likely (?). See lyken.

like, III, 355, 13; 358, 60, 80; 360, 109, 111: please. III, 400 a, (7): be pleased, satisfied.

likesome, II, 433, 5, 6, 8; 440, 23; 442, 4; 446, 89: pleasing, lovely.

lilt, I, 187 b; IV, 266, 16: to sing cheerfully. lilted, IV, 95, 3: sang, chanted.

lily, lilly, lilye, lillie, liley, lillie, lea, lee, lie, I, 325, B 11; III, 299, 8, 11; 300, 25; 301, 32, E; 435, 2; IV, 454, 6; 455, 14; 458, 7; V, [244], 16, 19; lillie leven, I, 324, 13; 325, C 12; lilly bank, brae, IV, 220, 13, 14: explained as “overspread with lilies or flowers,” but clearly from A. S. léoflíc, Old Eng. lefly, etc., lovely, charming. So, lilly feet (i. e. leely), I, 130, E 13; lily leesome thing, IV, 432, 2. We have lilly Londeen, IV, 485, 19==the frequent leeve London, lovely London. See leeve, lee-lang.

limmer (French limier, a kind of hound), a term of opprobrium, or simply of dislike. II, 322, 6; III, 466, 47: wretch (m. or f.), rascal. limmer thieves, 439 f., 4, 20; 441, 34. limmer loon, IV, 146, 15, 17. of a woman, II, 219, 9: jade.

lin. See linn.

Lin, Linn, Linne, Line, Lyne, a stock ballad-locality (like Linkum): I, 78, 38; 466, 5; 478 f., 5, 10, 16, 34; II, 240, 2; 290, 19; IV, 379, 18; 381, 12; 382, 15; V, [14], 1 ff.; [182] f., 2, 11, 29; [219], 6; thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124, 37.

lin, III, 105, 11; 174, 15: stop.

lin’d, III, 164, 91: beat.

ling, lyng, III, 3, 6; 7, 5; 99, 53: a species of rush, or thin long grass, bent grass, Scotland; in England, heath, furze.

lingcan, I, 299, 5: lichame, body.

linger, I, 334, 8: longer.

Linkem. See Linkum.

linkin, linken, IV, 332 b; V, [124], 4; [240], 1: tripping, walking with a light step. on a horse, II, 285, 11. linking ladie, IV, 355 b: light of movement. key gaed linking in, V, [18], b 23: passing in quickly, slipping in.

linkit his armour oer a tree, III, 270, E 7, comparing A 9; B 8; D 8, and observing the crooked carle in E 8, seems likely to be corrupt, and perhaps we should read leaned his arm out-oer. Otherwise, hung his armor, etc.

Linkum, an indefinite ballad-locality. not a bell in merry Linkum, II, 106, 21, 22. thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124, 37. cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239, B 4. a the squires in merry Linkum, IV, 432, 1.

linn, lin, lynn(e), water-course, torrent, river, pool in a river (A. S. hlynna, torrens): I, 303, D 4; II, 147, 9; 153, 24; III, 274, 1. of a mill-stream, I, 129, D 6. o’er the linne, II, 282 f., 9, 17, 18; IV, 479, 10 (==in the lynn, IV, 479, 5); II, 283, 8, 9: over the bank into.

Linnen, II, 225, D 3: Lunnon, London.

linsey, linsey-woolsey.

lint, IV, 433, 32: linen, linen mutch or cap.

lippen on me, II, 94, 10: depend. to God, III, 269, 12; to good==God, V, [243], 15: trust.

lirk, IV, 198, 2: crease, hollow.

lish, leash.

list, n., III, 137, 2; 181, 16: inclination.

list, v., III, 171, 9; 179, 4; 311, 19: desire, be disposed. pret. list, III, 171, 11. impersonal, me list, III, 97, 9. See lyste.

lith, lyth, I, 135, O 15, 17; 345, C 4; II, 412, 1; 413, 8: member, joint.

lith, I, 334, 7: light.

lith, lithe, lythe (Icel. hlýða), I, 334, 10; III, 22, 5; 198, 1; 411, 1: hearken.

lither, II, 54, 51; 138 f., 9, 13, 22, 23: bad. See lidder.

Litle Brittaine, I, 284 f., 4, 24, 33, 37: generally understood as French Brittany, but it is inexplicable that Arthur should be reigning there. Perhaps Litle means no more in this piece than in Litle England, II, 440, 20, 22; III, 278, 34; 285, 27; Litle London, III, 285, 22; Litle Durham, III, 285 f., 29, 39, 40. All these places, it will be observed, are in the Percy MS.

live, leave.

live, V, [227], 13: dear.

live best, IV, 146, 2: are the best of those living.

lively, I, 184, 47: alive.

liuer, adj., III, 180, 10: deliver, agile.

liuerance, III, 411, 8: payment for delivering.

livery-man, I, 419, 1; 421, 1: servant.

liues, II, 59, 25: ’lieves, believes.

liuor, III, 411 f., 8, 9, 10, 14: deliver, hand over, surrender.

load, III, 267, 10: loaded (with liquor).

loaden, p. p. of load, IV, 395, A b 5.

loan, lone, a common, any free or uncultivated spot where children can play or people meet, even the free spaces about a house: II, 62 a, 14, 16; 140, 1; V, [118], 2. (loan-head, IV, 285, 11, is toun-head in the original.)

locked, lockit, in a glove, II, 461, 21; 464, 6; 477, D 17: fastened.

lockerin, comes lockerin to your hand, IV, 213, 14; lockren, V, [258] b, 7: curling, closing as if to embrace.

loddy, IV, 70 f., G 4, 5, etc.: laddy.

lodder, loder, V, [283], 6, 16: louder.

lodesman. See ledesman.

lodging-maill, III, 474, 38: rent for lodging.

lodly, I, 285 f., 31, 43, 56; II, 44, 12: loathly, disgusting.

lodomy, IV, 398 f., 9, 34: laudanum.

loe, loie, loy, lou, v., I, 438, 10; V, [221], 9; [260], 13; [272] b, 3, 7, 11; [277], 1, 4: love. See lea.

loffe, n. and v., V, [79], 26, 28: love.

logie, IV, 175, N 11: lodge.

loie, loy, love. See loe.

lome, II, 44, 12: lame man.

lone, n., II, 333, 1; 489, 17. See loan.

long, tall. Long Lankyn, Long Iamie, II, 328, 1, etc.; III, 358, 63, 65, etc.

long of, II, 436, 53; III, 98, 22: owing to, the fault of.

loo, love, II, 408, 23. pret. lood, II, 417, 2; 419, 52. See lea.

lood, loud.

loof, looff, lufe, luve, leuve, I, 15, 15; 16, B 16, C 16; 17, 14; 18, F 9; 19, 14; III, 374, 8: palm of the hand. (Icel. lófi.)

looke, IV, 503, 12: look up.

loon. See loun.

loord. See lourd.

loose, V, [300], No 191: lose.

loot, bend. See lout.

loot, pret. of let, I, 68, 7; 204, 19: allowed.

loot, p. p. (?) of let, I, 351, 49; III, 436, 13; IV, 33, 26: allowed, allowed to, come.

looten, p. p. of let, II, 168, 8: allowed (to come). See lotten.

lope, pret. of loup, II, 59, 30; 434 f., 28, 47; 436, 58; III, 479, 39.

lord nor loun, III, 301, 32: man of high or low rank. In II, 159, 26, lord is a wrong reading; rogue nor loun, or the like, is required, as in 160, 20.

lordane, lurden, III, 25, 61: dolt, clodpoll, etc.

lore, lorne, III, 59, 51; V, [79], 32: lost.

loset, III, 94, 52: loosed, delivered.

loss, V, [200] a, 65; [262], No 223, 10; [277], 6: lose.

lotten, p. p. of let, I, 87, 38: allowed. See looten.

loudly, III, 440, 12: loud.

lough, loughe, pret. of laugh, II, 54, 58; 444, 48; V, [254] b, 2. See leuch, leugh.

lought, pret. of laugh, III, 82, 74; V, [51], 55.

loukynge, V, [283], 17: expectation, hope deferred.

loun, lown, lowne, loon, IV, 501, 36, 37: a person of low rank. laird or (nor) loun (lown), I, 69, 40, 41; 71, 32; III, 435, F 8; IV, 514, 12. lord nor (or) loun (lowne), III, 301, 32; 430, 13; 435, E 5; 436, 6, 8. IV, 11, 2; 519, H 2, I 2: rogue. often a mere term of general disparagement (as in, English loun): (of a man) II, 118, 3, 4; 140, 25; V, [171], 4; (woman) I, 100, 30; 491, G 24, H 22. fellow, without disparagement, IV, 258, 21. naughty girl, II, 419, 37. mistress, concubine, whore, II, 181 b; IV, 14, 13; 330 a, 3; 332 b; 469, 3; 519, 9; 520, 13. See lown.

loup, I, 102, D 3; II, 464, 1; IV, 44 f., 14, 15, 17, 23; 47, 4, 5: leap. pret. lap, leap, leepe, lope, loup, louped. p. p. loupen, luppen. loupin, V, [213], 3, has been explained as a form of leeping, heating (warming herself over the coal; cf. cowering oer a coal, I, 304, 2). We have, however, whisking ore the coal, I, 302, 4; reeking (==raiking) oer the coal, 304 E 3; and across agrees better with leaping than with heating.

loup, pret. of loup, II, 461, 5.

loupen, louped, p. p. of loup, III, 465, 27; IV, 462, 36.

lourd, loord, pret. and p. p. of lour==prefer, verb made from lever, rather. I had lourd, IV, 199, 18. I wad lourd have, IV, 7, 43. loord a had, V, [251], 36. I rather lourd it had been, II, 275 b.

lout, loot, I, 56, B 12; 351, 36, 48; II, 401, C 5: bow, bend, lean. pret. louted, looted. louted in, I, 331, D 5: bent our heads to enter? louted twafauld, threefauld, V, [242] b, 7: bent double, treble, p. p. louted, lootit, louten.

louten, p. p. of lout, II, 168, 9: bent.

love, I, 476, J 4: loaf.

love-clapped, II, 165, 10; 169, 8; 171, 13; 370, 8; 371, 8; IV, 392, 8; V, [277], 8: embraced lovingly, caressed.

loverd, I, 243 f., 1, 6, 17: lord.

louesome, III, 431, 30: lovely.

lov(e)ly, louelie, epithet of London: III, 199, 19; 310, 61; 352, 1; 355, 7. See leeve.

low, lowe, I, 211, 35; III, 93, 46: hill.

low, lowe, III, 435, F 5, 10; 436 f., 13, 20, 24, 34; IV, 47, 5; 514, 8: flame.

low, lowe, pret. of laugh, III, 110, 16; 112, 53; V, [78], 4. See lowhe.

lowe, doggs bite soe, III, 342, 66: a phrase for, take mean advantages.

lowe, bye lerbord or by lowe, IV, 504, 30: loof, luff, the after part of a ship’s bow (Falconer, Marine Dictionary); or perhaps the weather side. See leaf.

lowhe, low, lowe, pret. of laugh, V, [80], 44, 46-48.

lown, IV, 304, 8, 9: must mean here a young man in a low social position, since there can be no question of her kissing a disreputable fellow. There is no proper contrast with lad, and probably we should read, laird nor lown (see loun).

lowse, loose, free.

loyed, V, [221], 9: loved.

lucettes, III, 297, 46: luces, pikes.

Luckenbooths, V, [162], C 7: a range of buildings which formerly stood in the thoroughfare of the High Street in Edinburgh, parallel to Saint Giles Church.

lue, loe, loo, lou, loie, lea, lee, lie, v., love. See lea.

lufe, luve, leuve, loof, I, 16, C 16; 17, 14; 19, 14; III, 374, 8: palm of the hand.

lugs, I, 302, A 10; IV, 53, 11; 296, 8; V, [102], B 15; 103 b, 15: ears.

luid, III, 370, 19: loved.

luke, pret. of laugh, V, [238], 28.

lum, V, [125], 3, 9: chimney.

luppen, p. p. of loup, leap, I, 55, A 3, B 3; IV, 444, 26; 470, 30; 518, 8.

lurden, lordan, III, 35, 18: dolt, clodpoll.

luscan, a sturdy beggar (and thievish), III, 519 a.

lust, V, [213] a, 1: a bundle. (last, a measure, as twelve dozen hides or skins, etc.?)

lust, III, 56, 6; 85 and 89, 446; 332, 13: inclination, disposition. thy lustës to full fyll, III, 90 b: wishes. att his owne lust, III, 332, 13: pleasure.

lute, pret. of lett, IV, 345, 8: allowed. V, [248], 15: let down.

luve, palm of the hand. See loof.

ly, lye, IV, 261, 24; V, [168] f., 1, 2, 3, etc.: live, dwell. pret. lyed.

lyand, lying.

lyart, IV, 7, 36: grizzled, gray.

lybertye, apoint a place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: a place where the two can fight freely, without risk of interruption?

lye. See ly.

lyed, II, 266, 28: lay, lived. See ly.

lygge, ligge, I, 328, 38-41: lie. See lig.

lygge, lay. See lig.

lyghte, lyght, I, 327, 21; III, 297, 33: alighted. See light.

lyghtly(e). See lightly.

lyke, I, 327, 22; III, 28, 121; 64, 165; 76, 417: please.

lyke, I, 506, 3, 8, 9; II, 295, 8; IV, 236, 30: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. In II, 117, 16: simply, death-scene.

lyke-wake, I, 251, B 4, 5, 7; II, 282, 14; III, 495 b, 21; IV, 516 f., 1, 7, 18: watch of a dead body. dead lyke-wake, I, 251, B 4, 5: wake for your death. See lyke, leak, leak-(lake-)wake.

lyken, participle, IV, 511 b, X 6: about, at the point. See like, liken.

lynde, lyne, III, 75, 398; 91, 2; 92, 22; 93, 33; 97, 10; 98, 23; 100, 76, 78: linden, tree.

lyne. See lynde.

lyne. See lin.

lyng, III, 99, 53: heath. See ling.

lyon, III, 344, 33; 349, 33: the royal standard (quite out of place here).

lyste, me lyste, III, 78, 446: it would please me, I should like. See list.

lyth, lyth, lithe (Icel. hlýða), III, 56, 1; 63, 144, 70, 282; 71, 317: hearken.

lyth, member. See lith.

lyuer, III, 362, 82: leever, rather.

lyueray, III, 59, 70: present of clothes. III, 64, 161: purveyance of drink.