enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32: unintelligible to me. iollye should probably be iollytë. The king will have the head to serve some inscrutable purpose when he is making merry.

enterprise, v., I, 411, 9; III, 230, 70: undertake.

entertain, III, 153, 18: take into service.

envye, III, 296 f., 12, 30: ill-will, hostility, spite.

ere, V, [300], 3: eer, ever.

ere, eare, ayre, n., heir.

ere, v., heir.

ere, II, 216, 19; 470, 44; IV, 242 a; 378, 6; 433, 31: till.

ere syne, II, 362, 34: ere then, before that.

erlis, I, 329, 60: should probably be ernis, eagle’s (herons, yrons in other texts).