A CONCLUDING PRAYER.
| De ceulx qui le aprendront, | Of them that shall lerne it, | |
| Et nous doinst perseuerance | And vs gyue perseueraunce | |
| En bonnes operacions, | In good werkes, | |
| Et apres cest1 vie transitorie 1 ceste, Blades ii. 133. | And after lyf2 transitorie 2 this lyf, Blades ii. 133. | [4] |
| La pardurable ioye & glorie! | The euerlastyng ioye and glorie! |
[ LIST OF ENGLISH WORDS]
[A] [Ba-Bl] [Bo-By] [Ca-Cn] [Co-Cu] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [IJ] [K] [L] [M]
[N] [O] [Pa-Pi] [Pl-Py] [Q] [R] [Sa-Sk] [So-Sy] [T] [UV] [W] [Y]
| [A] | |
accidents, books of accidence, [38/40]. aduenture: in a., likely, in danger, [48/10]. after (rendering Flemish achter, Fr. aval),throughout, [38/2], [46/16]. Alemayne, Almayne, Germany, [14/17], [22/27]. Alemaynes, Germans, [42/40]. all, used as adverb, [31/7]; alle, with subj., even if, [49/28]; all halowes, the feast of All Saints, [28/18]. alleway, always, [9/23]. almesse, alms, [33/8]. alouses, shad, [12/7]. amendes, penalty, fine, [44/9]. Andwerp, Antwerp, [18/37]. andyrons, andirons, [8/8]. | anenst, towards, in the sight of, [48/28]. angre, refl., be angry, [31/6]. anone, immediately, [25/26]. apostomes, imposthumes, abscesses, [41/23]. apotecarie, apothecary, [19/34]. appereth, apperith, [37/34], [38/2]. arblastrer, crossbowman, [36/26]. Ardane, Ardennes, [43/38]. atte, at the, [34/6], [45/26]. auantage, advantage, [46/11]. auaunte, refl., boast, [30/14]. auctour, author, [3/33]. Austyns, Augustine friars, [24/5]. Auynyon, Auinion, Avignon, [22/20], [45/21]. |
| [B] | |
bacenet, bassinet, helmet, [33/34]. bales, balls (of alum), [20/36]. banerett, knight banneret, [24/33]; double banerette, [24/36]. bankers, coverings for benches, [7/1]. barke, bark (used in dyeing), [34/29]. ba[r]terye, pots and pans, [38/26]. basenne, sheep leather, [19/26]. bastard, a wine, [14/7]. baylly, bailiff, [30/10]. be, = been, [32/6]. Beane, Beaune, [14/5]. becke: drink b. to b., drink together (Fr. bec àbec). bedes, beads, [46/3]. Beghyns, Beguines, [24/11]. | beldame, mother-in-law, [6/2]. belfadre, father-in-law, [6/2]. Beme, Bohemia, [22/38]. benes, beans, [13/39]. Benet (seynt), St. Benedict, [24/2]. bere, bear (animal), [11/21]. bergayne, bargain for, [14/28]. berne, barn, [40/2]. Berow, Bergues, [19/2], [24/31]. betes, beetroot, [13/32]. beuer, beaver (for hats), [40/39]; beuers, beavers (animals), [9/1]. bileue, believe; I you b. well, [15/26]. blyew, blue, [14/36]. |
| [Bo] | |
bocher, butcher, [37/31]; bochiers, [2/31]. bocherie, meat-market, [37/32]. bocle, buckle, [21/28]. boden, bid, offered, [15/35]. Boloyne, Boulogne, [49/4], [50/14]. boor, boar, [10/26]. bordclothes, table cloths, [8/24]. born, carried, [32/3]. boulye, a drink, [14/19]. bourghmaistre, burgomaster, [44/13]. Bousser (= Fr. Bourshier), vycounte of B.,[24/30]. brasyll, brazil wood, [20/18],[34/27]. brede, breadth, [16/23]. brede, bread, [26/39]. brekynge, rupture, hernia, [41/28]. brembles, brambles; bremble beries (Fr. grouselles,gooseberries), [13/23]. bremes, bream, [12/7]. brenne, burn, [30/26]. | briches, breeches, [8/37]. bridelmakers, [1/16]. brigge, bridge, [49/9]. brocorage, brokerage, [42/35]. brocour, broker, [42/34]; brokers, [2/30]. broun peper, black pepper, [10/28]; broun sugre, [20/1]. browet, stew, broth, [10/20]; browettys, [41/15]. broythures, embroideries, [22/5]. bueff, beef, [10/14]. bukke, buck, [19/23]. Burgoyne, Burgundy, [24/19]. butores, bitterns, [10/40]. buxom, polite, [9/39]. by cause that, because, [46/32]. byleding, translation of Fr. deduit, delight, [29/12]. byre, beer, [14/17]. bystowe, lay out (money), [20/20]. bythynke, remember, think upon, [50/24]. |
| [C] | |
calle, headdress, [42/18]. callyng, invocation (of the Trinity), [1/5]. Camerik, Cambray, [23/19]. cammelle, ? for cannelle, cinnamon, [20/2]. can, knows, is skilled in, [33/13]; see conne. cannes, cans (tin), [7/17]; earthen pots, [7/10]. carier, wagoner, [45/9]. castelayn, castellan (of Dover), [24/29]. castell, cattle, [40/1]. catell, money, [15/12]; catayllys, chattels, furniture, [1/8]. Cathon, Dionysius Cato, [9/27]; catons, copies of Cato’s ‘Disticha,’ [38/38]. caudell, caudle, [14/1]. Cecile, Sicily, [22/36]. certainly, definitely, [16/1]. chalon, ? blanket, coverlet (but used to render F.calys, apparently ‘couch’), [7/2]. change, exchange office, [45/34]. changer, money-changer, [45/33]; chaungers, [45/33]. | chanons, canons, [23/30]. chapell, chapel: a fre ch., [45/23]. chapitre, chapter, [14/4]. chappelains, chaplains, [24/7]. charge: haue no c. of, don’t care for, [31/4]. Chartre hous: monkes of C., Carthusians, [24/4]. chekens, chickens, [10/32]. chepe, bargain for, [10/24]. chertes, shirts, [8/37]. cheruyll, chervil, [13/32]. cheuissheth her, is successful, [42/11]. chirche haliday, church feast, fair, [19/7]. chorle, peasant, [30/8]. Cistiauls, Citeaux, [23/37]. clarey, a spiced wine, [14/12]. clergesses, members of female religious orders, [24/11]. cnoppes, lumps (in yarn), [32/30]. |
| [Co] | |
cobelers, cobblers, [2/28]. coddelynges, codfish, [12/3]. coffyns, caskets, [21/33]. coler, collar (for horses), [46/27]; coliers, [46/28]. colermaker, (horse)collar maker, [46/26]. Coleyne, Cologne, [23/8]. commaunde, commend, [5/21], [6/12]. complyn, late evening service, [27/30]. comyn, common, [1/17]. comyne, cummin, [19/40]. conduyte, guide, [5/24]. confyte, comfrey (see the [Notes]),[13/19]. congres, conger-eels, [12/8]. conne, know, be skilled in, [37/39]; see can. contre, country, [5/2]. conyes, rabbits, [9/2]. cool, cabbage, [13/30]. cordewan, Cordovan leather, [19/24]. cordewanner, shoemaker, [35/35]. corffes, baskets, [38/21]. corse, girdle, [21/27]. | coryer, currier, [46/14]; coriars, [1/25]. coryeth, curries, [46/17]. cosen alyed, cousin by marriage, [29/13]. cosyns germayns, cousins german, [6/5]. couerar of tyles, tiler, [40/23]. couercles, lids, [7/35], [7/40]. couerlettes, coverlets, [6/40]. couper, cooper, [44/6]; coupers, [2/31]. coursour, courser, [45/29]. courtosye, courtesy, [18/16]. courtoys, courteous, [5/12]. coyfes for men, coifs, [21/38]. crafte, trade, [46/15]; craftes, [25/23]. creuyches, crayfish, [12/15]. cristall (for beads), [46/3]. crosse: neuer a c., not a farthing, [15/40]. cubibes, cubebs, [19/39]. curattes, curates, [24/7]. cure, church benefice, [45/23]. |
| [D] | |
dame, lady, [4/33], [15/5], [49/22]. damoyselle, damyselle, young lady, [4/19], [4/30], [5/29], [15/39]. dampned, damned, [45/37]. Danes men, Danes, [43/7]. dangerous, hard to manage, cross-tempered, [32/12]. daubed, plastered, [40/35]. dawber, plasterer, [40/36]. dedicace, parish festival, [46/2]. dene, dean (of a trade guild), [44/7]. dere chepe, high buying prices, [35/34]. deuyse, explain, [14/27]. dight, prepare (food), [10/28]. discouered, uncovered, [40/28]. do, = done, [47/11]; see doo. doctrinals, copies of the Doctrinale (a grammar),[38/38]. | dokes, ducks, [12/32]. doluen, dug, [45/14]. donettis, copies of Donatus’s grammar, [38/40]. dong, dung, [45/11]. doo, as a causative auxiliary, [26/5], [37/21]; doo of, doff, put off, [4/18], [4/20]; do on, don, put on, [25/39]. Dornyk, Tournay, [18/30]. doseyns, dozens, [46/4]. doughter, mistranslation of fille, prostitute, [46/30]; of filleule, god-daughter, [44/26]. dresse, serve up (food), [31/23]; d. to ete, prepare a meal, [26/38]. dyerye, dyer’s business, [20/37]. dyse, dice, [44/38]; dysemaker, [44/37]. dystaf, distaff, [32/27]. |
| [E] | |
thelle, the ell, [15/8]. Elzeter, Alsace, [14/4]. eme, uncle, [6/3]. en, redundant negative (a Flemicism), [18/18]. enfourme, instruct, [9/33]. enke hornes, inkhorns, [21/35]. enleuen, eleven, [51/9]. enlumined, illuminated (of a manuscript), [39/1]. enlyghte, enlighten, [51/39]. enprinted, printed, [38/36], [51/34]. entremete, refl., undertake, [20/40]. entreprise, undertake, [3/38]. | er, before, [26/2]. ered, ploughed, [45/12]. erst, first, before doing something else, [27/8]. Esterlynges, Easterlings, [43/1]. estre, Easter, [28/13]. eternalite, what is eternal, [45/39]. eueryche, euerich, everybody, [2/39], [31/1]; one euerich, [51/35]. euyll, bad (in quality), [40/20]; e. auenture, ill luck, [29/10]. euyll, badly, [11/12]. eyrekakis, egg cakes, ? omelets, [13/1]. |
| [F] | |
failled: ye f., you wanted (anything), [18/4]. fair syre, my good sir, [18/3]. falle, occur, be met with, [25/11]. fatte, vat, cask, [26/19]. fauconers, falconers, [43/36]. faucons, falcons, [43/37]. faulte: without f., without fail, [37/14]. fayres, fairs, [1/19]. felaw, felawe, as a polite term of address, [4/34], [49/23]; my felaws, my companions, [18/23]. felawship, society, companionship, [31/5]. feldeseed, ‘field seed,’ [20/10]. fellis, skins, [19/23]. ferdyng, farthing, [51/31]. ferme, rent, annual payment, [37/5]. festes, festivals, [28/3]. feuerer, February, [27/39]. fichews, polecats, [11/18]. flawnes, flawns, [12/34]. flesh, meat, [37/33]. flesshshamels, shambles, [10/8]. flued, made the ink run, [47/16]. | folke, people, folks, [9/40]; f. of ordre, members of religious orders,[2/5]. folye, folly, [45/38]. for: for to, = to (with infinitive), [2/40], [4/5]; for this that, because, [32/34]. forbere, bear with, defer to, [9/25]. forcer, forcyer, forcier, chest with a lock,[8/20],[36/7], [46/35]. forgeten, forgotten, [13/2]. formaketh, repairs, mends, [44/17],[46/24]. foryere, last year, [32/5]. fourbysshour, furbisher, [33/26]. fourmes, (printers’) forms, [51/34]. franchise, freedom (of a trade guild), [32/17]. franchyn, a sort of parchment, [47/17]. frere, friar: freres menours, Minorites, Franciscans,[24/3]; lewd freris, lay brothers, Beghards, [24/6]. fro, from, [4/1]. frockes, = Fr. sourcorps, [8/30]. fulcome, accomplish (a journey), [50/20]. fuldoo, perform, [48/5]. furmenty, furmety, [13/40]. |
| [G] | |
galentyne, sauce, [42/24]. galles, gall-nuts, [34/27]. galoches, overshoes, [35/39]. ganselyn, a garlic sauce, [42/26]. garettis, garrets, [6/28]. Garnade, ? Granada: wyn of G., [14/8]. Gaunt, Ghent, [18/28]. geloffres, cloves, [13/35]. gerfaucons, gerfalcons, [43/38]. germayns: see cosyns germayns. Germole: wyn of G., [14/5]. ghees, geese, [12/31]. gheet, goats, [12/30], [19/23] (but ghotes, [11/24]); used as singular, [10/23]. ghestes, guests, [42/39]. ghyrle, girl, [44/27]. gloues of yron, gauntlets, [33/37]. [God], in salutations, &c.: G. you kepe, [4/24]; G. give you good daye, [4/32]; G. reward you, [5/14]; G. late me deserue it, [5/15]; G. you haue in his holy kepyng, [5/26]; goo to god (= adieu), [6/13]. | Goddes peny, broker’s commission, [42/36]. gogeorns, gudgeons, [12/16]. good chepe, cheap, [15/11]. goodlynes, pleasant manners, [18/17]. gorelmakers, horsecollar makers, [2/37]. gorgette, armour for the neck, [33/36]. gramercy, many thanks, [5/11], [18/11]. graye, vair, fur, [46/21]. grayne, grain: scarlet in g., [15/1]; graynes of paradys, [20/3]. graywerker, furrier, [46/19]. grene of Spayne, [20/17]. grene sauce (eaten with pork), [10/11]. grete, great: in g., wholesale, [46/4]. greue, (of food) disagree with, [11/6]. greywerke, furriery, [2/36]. grote, groat, coin, [51/29]; grotes, grotis, [17/21], [44/31], [51/28]. growell, gruel, [14/2]. guldrens, guilders, gulden, [17/31]. gyuing oute, expenditure, [3/9]. |
| [H] | |
habergeon, [33/35], haddoks, haddocks, [12/3]. halting, lame, [32/32]. handwerker, farm labourer, [45/17]. happe, luck, fortune, [29/22]. hardy, bold, brave, [24/32]. haue right (= avez droit), [15/20]. hawgher, heifer, [10/20]. heberow, lodging, [5/31]. heeryng, heryng, herring, [12/8], [12/9]. hegge, hedge, [45/19]. hekell, heckle, [45/7]. heklester, (female) heckler, [45/5]. hem, them, themselves, [45/36]. Henaud, Hainault, [24/28]. herber, garden, [45/13]. herthe, hearth, [8/6]. hether, hither, [31/27]. heth hennes, moor hens, [11/1]. hewke, a sort of cloak, [16/18]; heukes, [8/31],mantle. | heye, hay, [13/27]. Heynewiers, people of Hainault, [43/7]. hiere, here, [29/23, 24]. hit, it, [6/27], [9/21], [25/37], &c. holde: holde you companye, accompany you, [26/5]. hole, whole, [15/7]; in good health, [35/13]. honde, hand; take on h., undertake, [3/38]. hooled, holed, torn, [34/15]. hosteler, innkeeper, [42/38]; hosteliers, [2/30]. hound, dog (skin), [41/3]. houres, hours (of divine service), [48/30]; see oures. howsed, provided with a house, [34/20]. huues, caps, [21/37], [42/19]. hye dayes, festival days, [31/31]. hyndecalf, fawn, [10/27]. |
| [IJ] | |
Janiver, January, [27/39]. jaquet, jacket, [33/40]. Jenewys, Genoese, [43/6]. in longe tyme, for a long time, [5/1]. joustynges, tiltings, [25/2]. | joynar, joiner, [46/34]; joyners, [2/37]. justes, tiltings, [45/26]. Juyll, July, [28/2]. Juyn, June, [27/1]. |
| [K] | |
kalenders, calendars, [39/4]. kawdrons, cauldrons, [7/6]. kembyth, combs (wool), [32/21]. kempster, female woolcomber, [32/18]; kempsters, [2/15]. kersses, creases, [13/36]. ketelmaker, kettle-maker, [47/2]; ketelmakers, [2/23]. | keuerchief (see the [Notes]), [8/36]; keuerchifs, kerchiefs, [43/14]. keupis, tubs, barrels, [44/17]. kien, kyen, cows, [12/29],[19/21]. knowlechid, confessed, [43/24]. kreme, cream, [12/38]. |
| [L] | |
laces, latchets, ties, [21/40]. langyng, belonging, [1/8]. lastes, lasts (weight), [21/13]. late, let, [27/12]. lauendre, laundress, [31/26]. lauours, wash-hand basins, [7/8]. lede, lead, cart (dung), [45/11]. leed, lead (metal), [21/22]. lelyes, lilies, [13/20]. lengthe, lengthen, [57/31]. lese, lose, [15/39]. letews, lettuce, [13/34]. leuain, leaven, [14/20]. leue, leave: take l., [5/22]. leue, make an abatement, [16/3]. leuer, rather, [15/37]. leuyng, leaving; used to translate relief (de la table),[9/7]. | lewd freris, lay brothers, Beghards, [24/6]. leyzer, leisure; by l., in a leisurely way (i.e. finding littlecustom), [46/20]. librariers, booksellers, [2/23]. lichorous, dainty, fond of good living, [33/20]. loches, loach, [12/16]. loftes, upper rooms, [6/28]. lokyer, locksmith, [46/32]; lokyers, [2/36]. longhe, lung, [26/28]. Luke, Liege, [23/18]. luses, luces, pike (fish), [12/12]. luste, desire, [32/36]. lyef, ladylove, [29/14]. lyfte honde, left hand, [48/12]. lynweuar, linen weaver, [38/9]; lynweuers, [2/22]. lystes (translation of lesons, settees), [7/5]. |
| [M] | |
maistre, prefix to the name of a physician, [34/38]. makerell, mackerel, [12/6]. maluesey, malmsey, [14/10]. mandemaker, basket maker, [38/19]; maundemakers, [2/24]. mandis, baskets, [38/21]. maners, sorts, kinds, [18/24],[19/36], [38/3]. marchans, merchants, [21/17]. marcke, mark (coin), [51/24]. mareshall, marshal (of France), [30/2]. maroners, sailors, [11/39]. marte, market, fair, [19/1]. Mase, the Meuse, [12/18]. masone, do mason’s work, [40/9]. mastrye, maystrye, rule, [43/28]; has them to mastrye, has them in his power,[43/25]. matynes, matins, [27/17]. mayde Marie, the Virgin Mary, [48/17]. mayntene, keep a stock of, [6/29]. me, one (= Fr. on), [6/19], [8/12], [12/38], [14/22], [26/12], &c. mecop, poppy; oyle of m., [20/11]. mede, mead (drink), [14/15]. medle with, deal in, [18/6]. medleyed, mixed, [14/34]. medliers, medlars, [13/7]. meesen, tomtits, [10/37] (a Flemishword). membres, limbs, [27/4]. | Mence, Mayence, [23/10]. merceryes, mercer’s goods, [1/28]. meruaylle, marvel, [32/31]. meschief, misfortune, [29/8]. messager, messenger, [45/1]; messagiers, [2/32]. mestelyn, mixed corn, [44/22]. metar, measurer, [16/34], [44/20]; metars, [2/32]. mete (verb), measure, [16/29]; meten, moten, measured, [26/25], [40/15], [44/21]. meuyd, moved, disposed, [48/37]. meyne, household, [5/35]. mo, moo, more (as adv. and with a plural), [3/2], [3/34], [11/9], [30/21]. moche, very, [26/6], [32/12], [50/35]. molettis, mullets, fish, [12/6]. morberies, mulberries, [13/6]. mormale, gangrene, [41/40]. morreey, murrey (colour), [14/38]. mortier, mortar (kitchen utensil), [26/40]. mote, may (in wishes), [4/38], [5/25]. moten: see mete. mottes, hillocks, mounds, [13/25]. mowe, be able, [3/22], [11/7], [50/37]. muscadel (wine), [14/7]. mylnars, millers, [2/21]. myntemakers, coiners, [2/34]. myte, half farthing, [51/31]. |
| [N] | |
Nauerne, Navarre, [22/37]. nayled, studded with nails, [31/36]. naylle, clove (wool weight), [19/13]. not, [19/20]; redundant negative, [12/22],[20/4],[29/26]. nether court, farm yard, [40/2]. neueus, nephews, [6/6]. | nobles, half-marks (6s. 8d.), [51/24]; see ryallis nobles. nokertree, walnut tree, [13/14]. noppe, to burl (cloth), [33/15]. nopster, burler, [33/12]. notes, nuts, [13/6]. nothyng, not at all, [5/18]. noyeng, annoyance, harm, [29/8]. |
| [O] | |
officials (of the church), [2/4],[23/25]. of the, of, = Fr. partitive article, [10/9], [41/7], [47/22]. olifaunts, elephants, [11/19]. ooke, oak, [13/3]. orfrayes, borders of gold lace, [36/8]. Oseye, Alsace; wyn of O., [14/8]. Ostryche, Austria, [24/20]. othirwhyle, sometimes, [40/21]. | ouermoche, too much, [5/5]. oughteth, ought, [40/3]. our lady in heruest, the Assumption, Aug. 15, [28/23]. our lady in marche, Lady-day, Mar. 25, [28/21]. oures, books of hours, [38/39]. owe, ought, [37/23]; oweth to, is to (do something), [31/34]. oynementis, ointments, [41/24]. |
| [P] | |
paintours, painters, [2/25]. paintures, pigments, paints, [20/16]. palfreye, [45/20]. parchemyn, perchemyn, parchment, [2/38], [39/5], [47/15]. pardon, parish festival, [28/33]. parfourmed, finished making, [33/39]. partie, part, [21/2]. partis, books on the parts of speech, [38/40]. partrichs, partridges, [11/1]. pasteyes, pies, [12/37]. pauntcher, girdle to hold up the breeches, [8/35]. pauteners, pawteners, purses, [36/22], [41/5]. paynefull weke, the Passion week, [28/28]. pece: the p., apiece, [47/5]. pelowes, pillows, [8/35]. | pendants of silke, ? ribbons worn as trimmings for dress,[21/39]. penners, writing cases, [21/33]. pens, pence, [3/8], [17/25], &c.; as a weight, [31/37]. penyworthes, wares, [18/1]. perche, pole to hang cloth on, [8/28]. perchemyn: see parchemyn. peres, pears, [13/4]. persely, parsley, [13/32]. pesen, peas, [13/39], [22/11]. pesibly, peaceably, [9/17]. pesshes, peaches, [12/7]. pestyll, pestel, pestle, [8/28], [27/1]. pikerellis (fish), [12/13]. pikes (fish), [12/13]. pilchemaker, pelisse maker, [14/23]; cf. pylche. |
| [Pl] | |
plackes, placks (Scots copper coin), [17/23]. plaise, plese, please: if you plaise ony thyng, [5/6]; yf it you plese you, [15/16]. plate, breastplate, [33/33]. platers, platters, trays, [7/30]. playne, refl., complain, [31/12]. plete, go to law, [47/13]. pleyers, minstrels, [2/35]. plouier, plover, [10/35]. polettes, pullets, fowls, [44/2]; see poullet. pomyce, pumice-stone, [47/21]. Poole, Poland, [22/39]. porreette, leeks, [13/3]. porselane, purslain, [13/34]. Portingale, Portugal, [23/2]. Portingalers, Portuguese, [42/5]. portoses, breviaries, [39/8]. potages, pot-herbs, [1/16]; soups or stews, [20/32]. potterye, crockery market, [7/13]. poullet, pullet, [10/32]; see polettes. | pourchaced, obtained, [38/37]. poure, poor, [37/35]. pourpays, porpoises, [12/2]. powches, pouches, [41/7]. poyntels, pencils for ruling lines, [21/34]. poyntes, tags for dress, [21/30]. Poytevins, men of Poitou, [43/5]. preysith, praises, [32/26]. printed cakes, [12/36]. pris, price, [26/20]. proctour, proctor, [47/9]. prouostye, provostship, [30/11]. pryelle, meadow, close, [45/18]. prys, prize, [45/32]. pulter, poulterer, [44/1]. pultrie, poultry market, [10/30]. pursser, purse-maker, [41/4]; pursers, [2/28]. pybakers, pastry cooks, [2/34]. pylche, pelisse, [46/21]; pylches, [9/2]; cf. pilchemaker. pylle (verb), peel (garlic), [27/7]. |
| [Q] | |
quarte (measure: = stope), [7/27]. qultes paynted, counterpanes, [6/31]. | quysshons, cushions, [50/10]. |
| [R] | |
rapes, turnips, [13/36]. raye, striped cloth, [14/39]. Raynes, Reims, [23/9]. recche, reck, care, [27/35]; used impersonally (me reccheth), [27/18]. receyuour, receiver of taxes, [44/35]. recommaunde me to, salute for me, [5/36]. recyte, receipts, income, [3/9]. reed, red, [22/1]. rekenynges, accounts, [37/1]. remeuyd, removed, [34/20]. renomed, notorious, [40/19]. rente, income, [37/3]. rented, endowed with a stipend, [23/30]. | repreuud, reproved, [33/4]. respyte, truce, [30/4]. rightfull, just (said of God), [47/40]. roches, roach, [12/15]. Roen, Rouen, [23/9]. rogettis, red mullet, [12/5]. Romeneye, wine of Romanée, [14/10]. royames, kingdoms, [29/37]. ryallis nobles (English coin), [17/33]. rynysshe, rynysh, Rhenish (wine), [14/4]; (guilders), [17/31]. Ryselle, Lille, [18/31]. |
| [S] | |
Sacrament, day of, Corpus Christi day, [28/30]. sad blew, dark blue, [14/38]. salewe, salute, [4/23]; salewyng, [4/27]. salews, saluts (coin of Lyons), [17/34]. sallyers, salt-cellars, [7/32]. samon, salmon, [12/17]. sarges, blankets, [6/37]. sauete, safety, [50/18]. sauf your grace, by your leave, [17/3], [28/36]. sauge, sage, [13/33]. saussers, sauce boats, [7/31]. sawters, psalters, [39/1]. saye, a kind of cloth, [14/40]. sayme of hereng (heryngs), lard, grease, [20/33], [46/18]. scallyd, scabbed, [36/5]. scoutes (Flemish municipal officers), [43/28]. scryne, casket, [46/36]. scutes, écus, crowns, [17/32]. seeke, seke, sick, [11/5],[14/1]. seethe, boil, [30/23]. | selers, cellars, [6/30]. seten, sat, [45/34]. seuen salmes, books containing the seven penitential psalms,[39/1]. sextain, sacristan, [45/20]. sextiers (measure of capacity), [1/8]. shal wylle, [3/37]. shame (refl.), to be ashamed, [37/14]. shelynges, shillings, [3/8], [15/15]. shepster, tailoress, [42/10]; shepsters, [2/29]. shere, shear (cloth), [32/14]. sheremen, shearers (of cloth), [2/15]. sheres, shears, scissors, [21/36]. shette, shut, [50/12]. shold, should (= would), [3/3]. shrewest, worst-tempered, [44/27]. siewet, suet (renders Fr. sieu, tallow), [20/30]. siluer, = money, [18/12], [18/19]. skaylles, ? flat tiles, [40/25]. |
| [So] | |
so, = O.Fr. si (emphasizing a statement), [4/21]. soden, boiled, [12/25]; wyn s., boiled wine, [14/11]. solas, comfort, [29/7]. solere, upper story, [50/7]. sommonce, summons, [47/10]. somone, summon, [47/11]. sooles, solos (fish), [12/4]. sowers, sewing-men, [34/9]. sowned, rung (of a bell), [30/15]. sperehaukes, sparrow-hawks, [43/39]. speres, lances, [45/31]. spete, spit (for roasting), [31/21]. spinster, female spinner, [32/24]; spynsters, [2/15]. sponne, spun, [32/27]. spores, spurs, [25/40]. spoylle, [26/37] (see the [Notes]). sprotte, sprat, [12/5]. spycier, grocer, [19/34]; spycers, [2/29]. squyer, squire, [45/25]. stall, stole, [36/6]. stede, steed, [45/30]. | Sterbrigge, Stourbridge (fair), near Cambridge, [19/3]. sterlyngis pens, sterling pennies, [17/35]; a pound sterlings, [51/22]. stewed, heated with hot-air baths, [42/30]. stewes: see styewe. steyres, stairs, [14/32]. stope, quart measure, [7/18]. stoppe, mend (clothes), [34/14]. stratch, stretch, extend to, [3/26]. strawe, give straw to (horses), [49/35]. suete, sweet, [13/17], [35/3].[B] surcote, overcoat, [14/16]. suster, sister, [6/8]; sustres, [6/9]. swerde, sword, [33/30]. syre, sire, sir, [4/24],[5/4], [16/20]. syth, sith, since, seeing that, [17/4, 7]; then, [26/1]; syth . . . sith, first. . . and then, [25/18]; syth that, since, after, [32/16]. syther, cider, [14/18]. |
| [T] | |
taillour, tailor, [34/1]. take on honde, = take in hand, [3/38]. tapytes, bed hangings, [6/37]. taryeng, tarrying, [14/25]. tasses, satchels, [21/32]. tauerner, tavern-keeper, [35/17]. taweth, tans, [46/13]. tawyer, tanner, [46/10]; tawyers, [2/25]. telle, count, [17/17]. temmesis, sieves, [38/22]. temporalite, temporal concerns, [45/40]. termes of the yere, [2/12], [28/8]. Terrewyne, Terouenne, [23/20]. tesyke, phthisis, [41/40]. that one . . . that other, the one, the other,[35/7]. theder, thither, [32/3]. thise, these, [13/16], [22/4]. thornbake, thornback (fish), [12/4]. thourgh, through, [8/26]. thre kynges, day of, Epiphany, [28/27]. | tofor, tofore, before, [32/4],[38/7]. togyder, together, [33/1]. tollar, toll collector, [44/29]. tonge, pair of tongs, [8/9]. tornoye, tourney, [45/27]. tour, tower; kepar of the t., [43/9]. tournemens, tournaments, [25/1]. tree, wood, [7/34]. trenchours, trenchers, [7/32]. treuet, trivet, stand for a pot, [8/5]. Treyer, Treves, [23/10]. triacle, ‘treacle,’ antidote to poison, [11/31]; triacle boxe, [31/39]. triews, truce, [29/38]. trippes, tripe, [26/27]. tweyne, two, [51/6]. tyerse, tierce (canonical hour), [27/35]. tylers, tilers, [2/26]. tymbre, do the woodwork of, [40/3]. tymbre wood, wood for building, timber, [40/6]. |
| [V] | |
valure, rank, dignity, [4/17]. vannes, winnowing baskets, ‘fans,’ [38/20]. verdures, green herbs, [38/20]. verry, true, [48/4]. vessches, vetches, [22/10]. viage, journey, [48/38]. | vnces, ounces, [21/10]. vpholster, old clothes man, [34/13]; vpholdsters, [2/17]. vsuriers, usurers, [2/25]. vylonye, bad manners, rudeness, [29/1]. |
| [W] | |
wafres, wafers, milk cakes, [12/40]. wan, begat, [46/33]. wardeyns, wardens (of a guild), [44/14]. wastles, cakes, [13/1]. waye, wey (wool weight), [19/12]. weeshe, wish, [46/39]. well, will, [26/3]. wene, think, [16/14]; wende, thought, [11/10]. werres, wars, [25/3]. weuar, weaver, [31/39]; weuers, [2/13]. weue, weave, [31/40]. weyeng, weighing, [31/37]. wherof: if ye haue w., if you can afford it, [7/14]. whiler, a while ago, [46/20]; =Flemish wilen eer. whutche, box, [8/20]. | wo is me, I am sorry for it, [46/8]. wolde: ye w. saye, you mean, [30/17]; I w., I could wish, [46/8]. woned, accustomed, [34/21]. wood, woad, [20/38]. worshippe, vb., reverence (parents), [9/24]. wortes, potherbs, [14/2]. wote, (I) know, [21/4]. wrastlyng, wrestling, [33/5]. wreton, written, [25/13]. wull, wool, [1/20]. wullen, woollen, [14/29]. wurte (renders F. tercheul, bran), [14/21]. Wyllemyns, Guillelmin friars, [24/3]. wylough, willow, [13/15]. wyndowed: well w., [6/24]. wyn[n]e, win, earn, [46/47]. wyneman, wine maker, [46/37]. wyte, know, [18/12]. |
| [Y] | |
y-asured, azure-tinted, [14/36]. yelde, render (accounts), [37/1]. yeres minde, anniversary, [25/32]. | ynche, ynke, ink, [30/23],[39/5]; see enke hornes. youris, yours, your family, [5/20]. ypocras, a medicated wine, [14/12]. ysope, hyssop, [13/33]. |
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