Early English Meals and Manners

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[1.] do, get on.

[2.] ? þat = nought can.

[3.] The Lawnd in woodes. Saltus nemorum. Baret, 1580. Saltus, a launde. Glossary in Rel. Ant., v. 1, p. 7, col. 1. Saltus, a forest-pasture, woodland-pasture, woodland; a forest.

[4.] at will. A.S. wilsum, free willed.

[5.] A.S. hirne, corner. Dan. hiörne.

[6.] Halke or hyrne. Angulus, latibulum; A.S. hylca, sinus Promptorium Parvulorum and note.

[7.] AS. fregnan, to ask; Goth., fraihnan; Germ., fragen.

[8.] AS. lis remissio, lenitas; Dan. lise, Sw. lisa, relief.

[9.] for me to

[10.] In Sir John Fastolfe’s Bottre, 1455, are “ij. kerving knyves, iij. kneyves in a schethe, the haftys of every (ivory) withe naylys gilt . . . j. trencher-knyfe.” Domestic Arch., v. 3, p. 157-8. Hec mensacula, a dressyng-knyfe, p. 256; trencher-knyves, mensaculos. Jn. de Garlande, Wright’s Vocab. p. 123.