English and Scottish Ballads, Volume V - Unknown

lad, lead.
laigh, [196], low ground.
lang, longer.
lap, leaped.
launde, an open place in a wood.
launsgay, a kind of dart or javelin;
(a compound of lance, and the Arabic zagaye, says Myrick, Antient Armour, &c.)
lawhyng, laughing.
layne, deception.
leace, lying.
leasynge, lying.
leave, [395], dear.
ledes man, conductor.
lee licht, [171], lonely, sad light.
leese, lose.
lefe, dear, pleasant.
lende, [113], dwell.
lene, [58], grant;
[59], lend.
lengre, longer.
lere, cheek.
lere, learn.
lese, lose.
lest, desire.
lesynge, lying.
let, stop;
letna, let not;
lettyng, stopping.
leugh, laughed.
lever, rather.
lewtè, loyalty.
ley, lea.
leythe, light.
liflod, livelihood.
ligge, [332], lay.
lightilé, lyghtly, quickly.
lin, stop.
lin'd, [203], beaten.
list, desire.
list, pleased.
lith, [170], joint, limb.
lithe, hearken.
liver, nimble.
lizt, light.
lokid on, [8], looked in at.
longe of the, thy fault.
longut, longed.
lordeyne, sluggard, clown.
lore, lost.
lothely, with aversion, with hatred.
lough, laughed.
loused, lowsed, loosed.
low, laughed.
lowe, [167], a small hill.
lown, rogue.
lust, desire.
lynde, lyne, linden, lime, tree in general.
lynge, [10], a thin long grass or rush, heather.
lyth, hearken.
lyveray, an allowance of provisions or clothes given out to servants or retainers;
[73], levy.
lyzth, lies.

male, portmanteau;
[68], [the horse carrying] the portmanteau.
maney, company.
mar, more.
marry, Mary;
marry gep, apparently, Mary go up!
masars, [75], cups, vessels.
masterey, mastery, trial of skill, feat.
mat, may.
maun, must;
maunna, may not.
may, maid.
maystry, trial of skill, feat.
meal-pock, meal-bag.
meatrif, abounding in provisions.
mell, meddle.
menyè, meynè, company.
mete, measured.
methe, meat.
meyt, meythe, might.
mickle, great.
middle streame, [274], middle of the stream.
misters, [203], sorts of.
mo, more.
molde, ground.
mot, may.
mote, meeting.
mought, might.
mow, mouth.
muckle, much.
mych, much.
mylner, miller.
mysaunter, misadventure, ill luck.
myster, need.
myzt, might.

nae, not.
nar, nor, than.
ner, never.
ner, were it not.
ner; they ner, thine ear.
nere, nearer.
next way, nearest way.
nicked, notched, cut, slashed.
niddart, [403], assailed.
nip, bit;
curn nips of sticks, [191], bundle of small sticks.
nipped, pinched.
nombles, numbles, [the eatable] entrails.
nouther, neither.

odur, other.
ohon, interjection of grief, alas.
okerer, usurer.
oltrance, outrance, utterance.
on, one.
onfere, together.
on lyve, alive.
onslepe, asleep.
onys, once.
or, before.
os, us.
ought, owed.
out-horne, a horn blown to summon people to assist in capturing a fugitive.
over all, everywhere.
owthe, out.
owtlay, outlaw.
oysyd, used, followed.

passe, extent, bounds, limits, district;
as the pas de Calais. Ritson.
partakers, persons to take one's part.
pawage, pauage, pavag, toll for the privilege of passing over the territory of another.
pay, satisfaction.
peces, [75], vessels;
unless it be gold pieces.
pinder, pounder, pound-keeper.
pine, pain.
plucke, stroke, blow;
[423], bout;
plucke-buffet, [118], is explained by the context.
prece, prese, crowd;
prees, [65], press (of battle).
preced, pressed.
preke, the pin in the centre of a target.
president, precedent.
prest, [29], fast, zealously.
prest, quick, in a hurry;
prestly, quickly.
pricke-wande, a rod set up as a mark. The prick is the peg in the centre of a target.
prycker, [425], a galloping horse.
pryffe, [430], prove.
pryme, six in the morning.
pudding-prick, a skewer to fasten a pudding-bag.
put at the stane, throw the stone as a trial of strength;
putting-stane, the stone used in this exercise.
pyne, suffering;
goddes pyne, Christ's passion.

quequer, quiver.
queyt, qwyte, reward.

raked, [196], proceeded leisurely, sauntered.
raking, [259], [275], walking hastily, running.
rawe, row.
ray, prepare.
raye, [84], striped cloth. "Cloth not coloured or dyed. It is mentioned in many old statutes in contradistinction to cloth of colour." Ritson.
reachles, reckless, careless.
red, advice.
red, rid.
reddely, quickly.
reede, advise.
renne, run.
reuth, pity.
reve, rob, take by force.
revere, river.
reves, bailiffs, receivers.
rewth, pity.
ripe, rip.
ripe, [190], search;
[202], cleanse.
rode, rood, cross.
rout, [191], blow.
rowed, rolled.
rowte, company.
rue, [377], to cause to rue.
rung, staff.
ryall, royal.
ryghtwys, righteous, just.

sad, [82], firm, resolute.
sall, shall;
salna, shall not.
salued, greeted.
same, in, together.
sanchothis, [41]? (The meaning is that the arrow went between the legs.)
sawtene, sought.
scaith, scathe, hurt, harm.
schet, schette, shot.
schrewde, sharp.
sclo, slay.
scouth, [195], room, range.
screffe, sheriff.
se, see, protect.
seal, [396], Gude seal, God seal, forbid?
seke, search;
[20], he was not to seke, he did not require to be looked for.
seker, sure, resolute.
selerer, cellarer, the officer of a convent that furnished provisions.
semblaunte, countenance.
sete, set.
sets, [348], suits.
shawe, [1], [94], [160], grove, wood.
shende, injure, blame.
shete, shoot;
shet, shot.
sheyne, bright.
shone, shoen, shoes.
shope, created.
shot-window, a projecting window.
shradd, [160], (spelt also shard,) an opening in a wood.
shrewed, [63], cursed, precious!
shroggs, [164], shrubs, twigs.
shryve, sheriff.
shuldis, shouldst.
silly, simple.
sith, since.
slack, low ground, valley.
slade, valley, ravine, strip of greensward between two woods.
slawe, slain.
slist, sliced.
slon, slay;
slone, slain.
somers, sumpter horses.
sorowe tyme, [61], sorry, bad time.
sothe, truth.
sound, swoon.
sowt, [40], south.
soyt, sooth, truth.
spar, spare, stop.
sparris, shutst;
sparred, shut.
spear, speir, ask about.
spercles, sparks.
sprunks, [378], concubines?
spyrred, asked, asked for.
stage, [8], story of the house?
stalle, [16], place in general, room, house.
stark, stiff.
stede, place.
sterte, started, rushed.
steven, [168], voice;
[164], unsett steven, a time not previously appointed.
stime, a particle of light.
sto', store, a quantity.
stood upon, [356], concerned, was worth his while.
store, set no, make no account of.
stound, hour, time.
stowre, turmoil.
strypes, strokes.
stroke, [259], stretch?
stye, [14], lane.
sune, son.
sweaven, dream.
sweir, niggardly, unwilling to part with any thing.
swinke, toil.
swownd, swoon.
swyre, [430], neck.
syne, then, afterwards.
syth, then.

take, (often) give;
take up (the table), clear away.
takle, takyll, arrow.
tarpe, [111]?
tee, to.
teene, tene, harm, trouble, vexation.
than, then.
the, they.
the, thrive, prosper.
then, than.
ther, their.
there, [106], where.
thes, thus.
thir, they.
tho, those.
thocht, thought.
thother, other.
thoucht long, thought lang, grew weary.
thrast, thrust, pressed.
throly, [5], boldly.
throng, hastened.
throwe, space of time.
thrumme, the extremity of a weaver's warp;
[40], band or belt?
thryes, thrice.
thynketh, seemeth.
till, to.
tithyngus, tidings.
to, two.
to-hande, two-hand.
toke, committed to.
tortyll, [28], twisted. Qy. reading?
trawale, labor, vocation.
tray, [81], (A.S. trega,) vexation.
tree, staff.
trenchen, [203], cutting.
treyffe, [32], thrive.
tristil tre, [7], tree of trist, or meeting.
trowet, troth.
trusyd, trussed.
trysty tre, tristing tree, tree of meeting.
tyde, time.
tyll, to.
tynde, tine, antler.
tyne, lose.

unketh, strange, stranger.
unneath, unneth, hardly.
untyll, unto.
upchaunce, peradventure, perchance.