forbid.

Forefend, prevent, defend.
Formare, former.

Forsede, p. 13, regarded, heeded.
Forst, forced, compelled.
Forthynketh, p. 184, repenteth,
vexeth, troubleth.
Fosters of the fe, p. 184, fores-

ters of the king's demesnes.
Fou, fow, s. full; also, fuddled.
Fowarde, vawarde, the van.
Fre-bore, p. 85, free-born.

Freake, freke, freyke, man, per

son, human creature.

plunder, booty.

Geve, gevend, give, given.
Gi, gie, s. give.
Gife, giff, if.

Gin, s. an, if.

Give owre, s. surrender.
Glede, p. 7, a red-hot coal.
Glent, p. 5, glanced.

Glose, p. 101, set a false gloss or
Gode, good.

Goddes, p. 105, goddess.

[colour.

Goggling eyen, goggle eyes.

Gone, p. 55, go.

Also, a

Gowd, s. gould, gold.

Freits, s. ill omens, ill luck; any

old superstitious saw, or impression, p. 128.

Fruward, forward.

Fuyson, foyson, plenty; also, substance.

Fykkill, fickle.

Fyll, p. 102, fell. Fyr, fire.

Gair, s. geer,

G.

dress.

Gane, gan, began.
Garde, garred, made.
Ganyde, p. 10, gained.
Gare, gar, s. make, cause; force,
compel.

Gargeyld, p. 110, from Gargouille, f. the spout of a gutter. The tower was adorned with spouts cut in the figures of greyhounds, lions, &c. Garland, p. 92, the ring, within which the prick or mark was set to be shot at.

Gear, s. geer, goods.

Graine, scarlet.

Gramercye, i. e. I thank you, f. Grand-mercie.

Graunge, p. 312, granary; also, a lone country-house. Grea-hondes, grey-hounds.

Grece, a step, p. 111, a flight of steps, grees.

Greece, p. 178, fat, (a fat hart)

from f. graisse.

Gret, grat, great.

Greves, groves, bushes.

Grysely groned, p. 32, dread

fully groaned.

Groundwa, groundwall.

Growende, growynd, ground. Gude, guid, geud, s. good.

H.

Ha, hae, s. have. Item, hall. Habergeon, f. a lesser coat of mail. Hable, p. 102, able. Halched, halsed, saluted, embraced, fell on his neck; from Halse, the neck, throat. Halesome, wholesome, healthy. Hand-bowe, p. 190, the longbow, or common-bow, as distinguished from the cross-bow.

Haried, harried, haryed, harowed, p. 23, 171, robbed, pillaged, plundered. He harried a bird's nest. Scot.

Harlocke, p. 322, perhaps charlocke, or wild rape, which bears a yellow flower, and grows among corn, &c. Hartly lust, p. 106, hearty desire. Hastarddis, p. 100, perhaps hasty rash fellows, or upstarts, qu. Haviour, behaviour. Hauld, s. to hold. Item, hold, strong, bold.

Hawberk, a coat of mail, consist-
ing of iron rings, &c.
Haylle, advantage, profit, (p. 26,
for the profit of all England.)
A. S. Hæl, salus.

He, p. 5, hee, p. 25, hye, high.
He, p. 179, hye, to hye, or hasten.
Heal, p. 10, hail.
Hear, p. 11, here.

Heare, heares, hair, hairs,
Hed, hede, head.

Heere, p. 96, hear.

Hend, kind, gentle.

Heir, s. here, p. 9, hear.
Hest, hast.

Hests, p. 48, commands, injunctions.

Hether, hither.

Hewyng, hewinge, hewing, hacking.

Hewyne in to, hewn in two.

Hi, hie, p. 85, he.

Hie, hye, he, hee, high,

Hight, p. 51, p. 11, engage, en

gaged, promised, (page 160, named, called). Hilly's, hills. Hinde, hend, gentle. Hir, s. her. Hirsel, s. herself. Hit, p. 11, it.

Hoo, ho, p. 20, an interjection of
stopping or desisting: hence
stoppage.
Hode, hood, cap.

Hole, whole; holl, idem.
Holtes, woods, groves, p. 25. In
Norfolka plantation of cherry-
tree is called a cherry-holt.
Also sometimes hills,*
Holy, p. 106, wholly. Or per-
haps hole, whole.
Hom, hem, them.
Hondrith, hondred, hundred.
Honge, hang, hung.
Hontyng, hunting.

Hoved, p. 110, heaved; hung
moving. (Gl. Chauc.) Hoved
or hoven means in the north,
swelled: but Mr. Lambe thinks
it is the same as houd, still
used in the north, and applied
to any light substance heaving
to and fro on an undulating
surface. The vowel u is often
used there for the conson, v.
Hount, hunt.
Hyght, p. 31, on high, aloud.

Lease, p. 179, lying, falsehood.
Withouten lease, verily.
Leasynge, lying, falsehood.
Lee, p. 129, lea, the field.
Leeche, physician.

Leechinge, doctoring, medicinal

care.

Leer, p. 242, look.

Leeve London, p. 294, dear
London, an old phrase.

Leeveth, believeth.
Lefe, p. 182; leeve, dear.
Lefe, leave; leves, leaves.
Leive, s. leave.

Leman, leaman, leiman, lover, mistress, A. S. leifman. Lenger, longer.

Lere, p. 55, face, complexion, A. S. bleape, facies, vultus. Lerned, learned, taught. Lesynge, leasing, lying, falsehood.

Let, p. 5, hinder, lett, p. 74, hindred.

Lettest, hinderest, detainest.
Lettyng, hindrance, i. e. without
delay.
Lever, rather.

Leyre, lere, p. 321, learning, lore.
Lig, s. lie.

Lightsome, cheerful, sprightly.
Linde, see Lynde.
Lingell, a thread of hemp rubbed

with rosin, &c. used by rustics for mending their shoes. Lith, lithe, lythe, p. 161, attend, hearken, listen.

Lither, p. 74, idle, worthless, naughty, froward. Liverance, p. 299, deliverance, (money, or a pledge for delivering you up).

Liver, deliver.
Loke, p. 323, lock of wool.
Longes, belongs.
Looset, losed, loosed.
Lope, leaped.

Loveth, love, plur. number.
Lough, p. 176, laugh.
Louked, looked.

Loun, s. p. 337, lowne, p. 209, loon, rascal, from the Irish liun, slothful, sluggish.

Louted, lowtede, bowed, did obeisance.

Lowe, p. 95, a little hill. Lurden, p. 170, lurdeyne, sluggard, drone.

Lynde, p. 176, 178, the lime tree, or collectively, lime trees; or trees in general. Lyne, p. 92. Lyth, p. 322, lythe, lithsome, pliant, flexible, easy, gentle.

M.

Mahound, Mabowne, Mahomet.
Majeste, maist, mayeste, may'st.
Mair, s. mare, more.
Makys, maks, mates."
Male, p. 10, coat of mail.
Mane, p. 7, man. Item, moan.
March perti, p. 15, in the parts
lying upon the Marches.
March-pine, p. 321, march-
pane, a kind of biscuit.
Mast, maste, may'st.
Masterye, p. 91, maystery, p.
186, a trial of skill, high proof
of skill.

Mauger, maugre, spite of.
Maun, s. mun, must.

Maye, p. 30, maid, (rhythmi gratia).

Mickle, much.

Minged, p. 48, mentioned. Miscreants, unbelievers. Misdoubt, p. 316, suspect, doubt. Misken, mistake; also in the

Scottish idiom, let a thing alone. (Mr. Lambe.) Mode, p. 176, mood. Monnyn day, Monday. Mores, p. 46, hills, wild downs. Morne, s. p. 82, on the morrow. Mort, death of the deer. Most, must.

Mought, mot, mote, might. Mun, maun, s. must. Mure, mures, s. wild downs, heaths, &c. Musis, muses. Mighttè, mighty. Myllan, Milan steel. Myne-ye-ple, page 10, perhaps, many plies, or folds. Monyple is still used in this sense in the north, (Mr. Lambe). Myrry, merry.

Mysuryd, p. 103, misused, applied to a bad purpose.

O gin, s. O if a phrase.
On, one; on man, p. 8, one man.
One, p. 31, on.
Onfowghten, unfoughten, un-
fought.

Or, ere, p. 21, 25, before.
Or, eir, before ever.
Orisons, prayers.
Ost, oste, oost, host.
Out ower, s. quite over: over.
Out-horn, the summoning to
arms, by the sound of a horn.
Outrake, p. 304, an out ride;
or expedition. To raik, s. is to
go fast. Outrake is a common
term among shepherds. When
their sheep have a free pas-
sage from inclosed pastures
into open and airy grounds,
they call it a good outrake.
(Mr. Lambe.)

Oware off none, p. 6, hour of

noon.

Owre, owr, s. o'er. Owt, owte, out.

P.

Pa, s. the river Po.

Palle, a robe of state, purple and pall, i. e. a purple robe or cloak, a phrase.

Paramour, lover. Item, a mistress. Paregall, equal.

Parti, party, p. 8, a part.