Bales, "lay on with your bales" (M[6],a). "Scared us with a bales" (M[35],d), in the first example the manuscript has ballys, in the second bales, but I think the context in each case shows the meaning to be the same. Bales = a rod or scourge, and specifically a bow: at 6,a it is the minstrels who are charged to "lay on."
Ball, "to it Boy, box him Ball" (R[194],c), a dog: cf. 195,d. Halliwell says the name was given to various animals: "it is mentioned as the name of a horse in Chaucer and Tusser, of a sheep in the Promptorium, and of a dog in the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII., p. 43."
Banket, see Junkery.
Baudery, "sorcery, witchery, baudery" (R[263],d), the manuscript has bandery, but? baudery as in present text. If bandery, plotting is doubtless meant.
Bash, "look thou not bash" (JE[354],a), i.e. timidly, or with too much inattention. "No, Leonato, I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, shew'd Bashful sincerity and comely love."—Shakespeare, Much Ado (1600), iv. I.
Bast, "begat the whoreson in bast" (N[68],b), fornication, adultery. "For he was bigeten o baste, God it wot."—Artour & Merlin, 7643.
Be (passim), been.
Bedlams, "stark bedlams" (R[233],c), madmen: see other volumes of this series.
Bees, "hive of humble bees swarming in my brain" (R[182],c), proverbial: cf. modern "bee in the bonnet." Here = restless, whimsical, full of projects: see Heywood, Works (E.E.D.S.), II. 385; s.v. Head.
Beforn, Beforne (passim), before.