Laid, faint.
Larded, fattened.
Latched, caught.
Lays, leas, fields.
Leasing, falsehood, lies.
Lere, lore, lesson; learn.
Lever, rather.
Levin, lightning.
Lewd, foolish.
Lewdly, foolishly.
Lief, dear, beloved.
Lig, ligg, liggen, lie.
Loord, fellow.
Lope, leaped.
Lorn, left, lost.
Lorrell, ignorant, worthless fellow.
Louted, did honour.
Lust, wishest.
Lustihed, pleasure.
Lustless, languid.
Maintenance, behaviour.
Make, versify.
Maugre, in spite of.
May, maid.
May-buskets, May-bushes.
Mazer, bowl.
Medle, mingle.
Meint, mingled.
Melling, meddling.
Men of the lay, laymen.
Ment, mingled.
Merciable, merciful.
Mickle, much.
Miller's round, a dance.
Mirk, very obscure.
Miscreance, unbelief.
Misgone, gone astray.
Missay, say evil.
Mister men, kind of men.
Mister saying, kind of speech.
Miswent, gone astray.
Mizzle, to rain a little.
Mochell, much.
Moe, more.
Most what, affairs.
Most-what, for the most part.
Musical, music.
Narre, nearer.
N'as, has not.
Newell, novelty.
Nighly, nearly so much.
Nill, will not.
N'is, is not.
N'ote, know not.
Nought seemeth, is unseemly.
Nould, would not.
Overcrawed, overcrowed.
Overgone, surpassed.
Overhale, draw over.
Overture, open place.
Paddocks, toads.
Pained, exerted himself.
Paramours, lovers.
Paunce, pansy.
Perdie, in truth, truly.
Peregall, equal.
Perk, pert.
Pert, open.
Pieced, imperfect.
Pight, put, placed.
Plainful, lamentable.
Prick, mark.
Pricket, buck.
Prief, proof.
Prime, spring.
Primrose, chief flower.
Pumie, pumice.
Purchase, obtain.
Purpose, conversation.
Quaint, strange.
Quell, abate.
Queme, please.
Quick, alive.
Quit, deliver.
Rathe, early.
Rather, born early.
Record, repeat.
Rede, saying; advise, tell.
Reliven, live again.
Ribaudry, ribaldry.
Rife, frequent.
Rifely, abundantly.
Rine, rind.
Romish Tityrus, Virgil.
Ronts, young bullocks.
Roundel, roundelay.
Routs, companies.
Roved, shot.
Sale, wicker net.
Sam, together.
Sample, example.
Saye, silk.
Scope, mark aimed at.
Seely, simple.
Sheen, bright.
Shend, disgrace.
Shepheard, Abel, p. 56; Endymion, p. 55; Orpheus, p. 84; Paris, p. 57.
Shield, forbid.
Sib, related.
Sich, such.
Sicker, siker, surely, truly.
Sike, such.
Site, situation.
Sithence, sithens, since, since that time.
Siths, times.
Sits, becomes.
Sits not, is not becoming.
Skill in making, in writing poetry.
Slipper, slippery, uncertain.
Smirk, nice.
Snebbe, revile.
Somdele, somewhat, in some degree.
Some quick, something alive.
Sommed, feathered.
Soote, sweetly.
Sooth, soothsaying.
Sops-in-wine, a flower.
Sovenance, remembrance.
So well the wed, of such sound morals.
Sperr, shut.
Spill, spoil, ruin, injure.
Stank, weary.
State, stoutly.
Steven, noise.
Stound, effort; hour.
Stounds, pains; occasions.
Stour, assault.
Stoure, occasion.
Stoures, attacks.
Stowre, affliction, violence.
Strain, imbody in strains.
Strait, strict.
Strow, display.
Stud, trunk.
Sullen, sad.
Surquedry, pride.
Swink, toil.
Tabrere, taborer.
Teen, sorrow.
That, that which.
Thereto, also.
Thick, thicket.
Thilk, this, these, this same, that same.
Tickle, uncertain.
Tinct, coloured.
Tityrus, Chaucer.
Tod, thick bush.
To-force, perforce.
Tooting, looking about.
Totty, wavering.
Trace, go.
Trains, snares.
Trode, troad, tread, path.
Truss, bundle.
Tway, two.
Uncouth, unknown.
Underfong, tamper with, undertake.
Undersay, say in contradiction.
Uneath, scarcely.
Unkempt, unpolished.
Unkent, unknown.
Unlustiness, feebleness.
Unnethes, scarcely.
Unsoot, unsweet.
Uprist, uprisen.
Utter, put forth.