Robin Hood / A collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life.

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, Saxon.) Thus, in Spenser’s 4th eclogue:

“So now his friend is changed for a fren.”

Again, in Florio’s Worlde of Wordes, 1598: “Alieno, an alien, a stranger, a forraine, a freme.”

Bestead, beset, put to it.

Beth, are, be.

Blate, sheepish or foolish, as we should now say.

Blive, belive, immediately.

Bloschems, blossoms.